The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) has alleged that activists travelling from Maharashtra to Delhi for a protest against the functioning of the Election Commission were removed from trains and taken to unknown locations. The party also claimed that several trains bound for Hazrat Nizamuddin and New Delhi railway stations were cancelled and that metro stations near Jantar Mantar were closed. The claims had not been independently verified at the time of publication.
In a press statement issued on Friday, CJP Maharashtra said activists from different parts of the country, particularly Maharashtra, were travelling to Delhi for a demonstration scheduled at Jantar Mantar on Saturday, October 10. The party said the protest would question the functioning of the Election Commission and would be conducted peacefully and within the constitutional framework.
The allegations place railway and metro operations at the centre of a wider dispute over access to a public demonstration. The party did not provide publicly verifiable details in the supplied statement about the identities or number of activists allegedly removed from trains, the trains involved, the locations where they were allegedly taken, or the specific services it claimed had been cancelled.
CJP Maharashtra spokespersons Trisha Pudke and Sushil Kumar criticised the alleged action in a video message. “If we cannot ask questions in a democracy, where are we supposed to ask them? Our activists travelling from Maharashtra to Delhi have allegedly been removed from trains and taken to unknown locations. We are also being told that trains heading towards Hazrat Nizamuddin and New Delhi have been cancelled and nearby metro stations have been closed. What is happening?” they said.
The spokespersons said the party would seek answers through constitutional means and maintained that the Jantar Mantar protest would proceed as planned. CJP Maharashtra also appealed to citizens in Maharashtra to participate in the demonstration and described the alleged detention of activists and transport disruptions as attempts to prevent people from exercising the right to peaceful protest.
The supplied report does not include responses from Indian Railways, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, Delhi Police, railway police or any other government authority. It also does not establish whether any train cancellations or metro station closures were connected to the proposed protest. Those details remain material to determining whether normal operational decisions, security measures or restrictions on movement were involved.
Jantar Mantar is an established protest venue in central Delhi, where access and transport arrangements can affect the ability of participants to reach demonstrations. In this case, however, the available information confirms only that CJP made the allegations and announced the protest. Independent confirmation of the alleged detentions, train cancellations and metro closures is still required before the claims can be treated as established facts.
