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- Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is demanding the resignation of India's chief election commissioner, calling his oversight of electoral roll revisions illegitimate.
- The electoral roll revisions have already led to the removal of tens of millions of eligible voters, according to the source.
- The Election Commission defends the process as long-overdue reform necessary to weed out duplicate entries.
- CJP protesters call the review 'an assault on democracy' and say it is designed to benefit the governing BJP.
- The CJP movement's July protests previously forced India's education minister to quit, the same source notes.
Why it matters: With CJP already forcing India's education minister to resign in July and tens of millions of voters already removed from rolls, the election commission chief now faces the same movement's pressure. If successful, this would directly challenge the BJP, whom protesters accuse of being the intended beneficiary of the voter revisions.
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