Former West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has been detained by the Delhi Police and central paramilitary forces (CRPF) outside her New Delhi residence amid an intense security crackdown surrounding the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protest.
According to reports from The Times of India, Banerjee and five others were taken into custody and transported in a prison van to an undisclosed location. The high-profile detention comes as New Delhi remains under a virtual lockdown following CJP's call for a demonstration at Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Despite authorities denying permission for the rally, security forces have deployed over 20,000 personnel, closed 45 metro stations, and canceled 250 trains.
The sweeping crackdown has resulted in the detention of more than 1,000 individuals since Friday evening, including former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, CPI(M) MP John Brittas, CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka, and prominent YouTuber Dhruv Rathee, who was picked up from his Gurugram residence earlier Saturday morning.
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