STORY: Indian security personnel on Sunday (October 11) detained several protesters who took out a march in the heart of New Delhi demanding the resignation of the country's election chief.

Protesters, some with visible injuries, most of whom belonged to student organisations, were dragged and forced into a bus by security personnel.

Police detained more than 2,000 people and locked down Delhi's city centre to thwart Saturday's (October 10) protest, and thousands of police and paramilitary personnel continued to be deployed across the city on Sunday although metro stations reopened and mobile internet services were back up.

The protests are calling for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over a revision of voter lists that critics say disproportionately benefits Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been in power for more than 12 years.

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SHOWS: NEW DELHI, INDIA (OCTOBER 11, 2026) (ANI - No use India)

1. VARIOUS OF SECURITY PERSONNEL TRYING TO CAPTURE AND DETAIN PROTESTERS WHILE THEY TRY TO RESIST

2. (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) PROTESTER, NAME NOT GIVEN, SAYING:

"This dictatorship will not work. The way our people, our students have been detained and attacking democracy…we will not spare them. We will be on the streets every hour, minute and second. We are not scared of their autocracy. We will keep demanding the resignation (of the election commissioner), to fix the election commission and to save this democracy."

3. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING AND RAISING SLOGANS

4. PROTESTERS RUNNING

5. PROTESTERS SITTING ON ROAD

6. VARIOUS OF SECURITY PERSONNEL CAPTURING PROTESTERS AS THEY TRY TO RESIST

7. (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) DETAINED PROTESTER, NAME NOT GIVEN, SAYING:

"We want to tell this government that the students and youth would stand firm until Gyanesh Kumar resigns."

8. BUS CARRYING DETAINED PROTESTERS LEAVING