‘Chappal protest’ in Bengaluru on Thursday, announces CJP; Prakash Raj to join event

Bengaluru: Co-convener of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) Ashutosh Ranka announced on Tuesday that, following a People’s Tribunal on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, a ‘chappal protest’ will be carried out at the Freedom Park in the city on Thursday, October 8.

In a social media post, Ranka has said that the state capital would witness an ‘action-packed Thursday’, when the CJP will attend the People’s Tribunal to interact with Kannadigas whose names have been wrongfully deleted from the voters’ list.

The interactive session will be followed by a ‘chappal protest’ starting 10:30 am, in solidarity with women, the CJP said and has called out to the people of Karnataka to join the ‘chappal protest’ in large numbers on Thursday.

Founder of the CJP Abhijeet Dipke, Spokesperson Saurav Das along with Ranka are expected to participate in the event on Thursday. Actor and social activist Prakash Raj as well as members of other youth and civil society organizations will be present, said Ranka.

In a post on his ‘X’ page, Prakash Raj also asked people to join them in large numbers at Freedom Park. “People’s Tribunal by Cockroaches..Dipke.Ashuthosh.. Sourav and all the youth organisations and the civil society.. The victims of SIR from across the state will be present . requesting all the citizens to participate in this fight to save our Democracy.. come join us tomorrow 8 th October at Freedom Park .. Bengaluru” (sic), Raj posted on Wednesday morning.

The groups are demanding that all deletions made under the pretext of SIR be scrapped and also that the pre-SIR electoral rolls be retained. The protesters have also demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, alleging irregularities in the electoral process.