India election chief faces calls to resign from protesters, opposition

Thousands of young protesters and opposition parties staged protests in the national ⁠capital and Mumbai on ⁠Sunday, demanding the resignation of Election Commission Chief ⁠Gyanesh Kumar, as police detained demonstrators for a third consecutive day.

Opposition leaders Raj Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray led protests in Mumbai calling for the scrapping of revisions to the electoral roll and Kumar’s resignation.

In Delhi, protesters started gathering in the early evening and police started detaining some of them, ‌according to a witness.

Some demonstrators breached police barricades and surrounded vehicles carrying detained demonstrators, climbing onto them and laying on the road to block ⁠their path, the witness added.