AISA president Neha Bora has urged people travelling to Delhi for a proposed Jantar Mantar protest to continue demonstrations at metro or railway stations if organisers are detained, putting the capital’s public transport network at the centre of the mobilisation planned for Saturday.
In a video message issued a night before the proposed protest, Bora called on young people to participate in demonstrations demanding the withdrawal of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process for electoral rolls and the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. She also asked participants to take responsibility for leading the protest if organisers were detained.
“Tomorrow, when they stop us, the person standing beside us should lead this movement,” Bora said in the message, according to Live Hindustan. She described the protest as belonging to all participants and urged people to continue raising the demands wherever they were stopped.
Bora specifically appealed to people arriving in Delhi to sit in protest at the location where they were stopped, including metro stations and railway stations. The proposed action would bring a political demonstration into transport spaces that handle large volumes of daily passenger movement, although the supplied report does not independently confirm that such sit-ins have taken place.
The AISA president also compared the proposed mobilisation with the 1942 Quit India Movement. She alleged that authorities were repeating a strategy of detaining leaders and restricting roads in the expectation that a movement would lose momentum. Her comments included criticism of the Union government and references to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
In a separate message sent on Friday, Bora alleged that people were being placed under house detention and that police were looking for protest organisers. She further claimed that trains travelling to Delhi were being stopped, 45 metro stations had been closed ahead of the protest and large numbers of paramilitary personnel, Army personnel and other security forces had been deployed. These claims were presented by Bora in her message and were not independently verified in the supplied report.
The proposed gathering is centred on demands to withdraw the SIR exercise and seek the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner. The report said that left-wing student organisations, social activists and farmers’ organisations were expected to participate, along with the organisation identified in the source report as the Cockroach Janata Party.
For commuters, the immediate issue is whether the proposed protest will lead to restrictions, station closures or diversions around central Delhi. No official transport advisory, police order or confirmation from railway or metro authorities was included in the supplied material. The protest was scheduled to take place at Jantar Mantar on Saturday, with its operational impact dependent on decisions by security and transport authorities.
