A hunger strike is a protest in which a person refuses food to press a demand.

Wangchuk has threatened an indefinite fast if detainees are not released unconditionally.

The deadline is the morning of October 11.

A foot march to Delhi is the second threat.

The government has not responded in the reports.

Wangchuk is in Ladakh, according to the reports.

Wangchuk called the crackdown an attack on constitutional rights, according to The Week.

Wangchuk said that suppressing peaceful, democratic voices is a direct assault on the Constitution.

Delhi Police detained hundreds of people on October 10 as the Cockroach Janta Party’s protest at Jantar Mantar was blocked.

Opposition leaders including Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal were also detained, and reports said some were released by evening.

The CJP’s founder and two leaders were detained at Delhi airport, and the party said that it lost contact with them for about 10 hours.

Counts of those detained range from hundreds to more than 7,000 in different reports and could not be reconciled.

Delhi Police has not publicly commented on the detentions, according to PTI.

The UN human rights office said that it was concerned by reports of mass detentions and urged the release of anyone arbitrarily detained.

The INDIA bloc submitted a memorandum to President Droupadi Murmu on October 9 listing its demands to end the agitation against the Chief Election Commissioner.

The INDIA bloc has planned a mega protest on October 12, according to reports.

The CJP plans to march to Jantar Mantar again on Sunday, October 11.

The Supreme Court will hear a contempt plea over Delhi Metro closures on Sunday, October 11.

Wangchuk has separately given the government a one-year deadline on Ladakh’s political demands, which is a different matter.

A hunger strike is a protest in which a person refuses food to press a demand.

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The protests demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

Police had denied permission for the Jantar Mantar protest.

More than 30,000 security personnel were deployed, according to The Federal.

Leaders from the TMC, AAP, CPI(M) and other parties were detained.

Counts of those detained vary between reports.

Banerjee said that the situation in Delhi was beyond Emergency, according to National Herald.

Arvind Kejriwal was detained outside the residence while trying to join the demonstration, and footage showed Kejriwal in a police bus with AAP leaders, according to Oneindia.

At 8:49 pm, Kejriwal reported being released by police, according to a live blog by The Federal.

Inkl reported that Banerjee and Kejriwal were released from detention.

Kerala’s former chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, MA Baby and John Brittas were taken to Chhatrasal Stadium and then to Mandir Marg police station, according to Brittas as cited by The Federal.

Manik Sarkar and Elamaram Kareem were detained at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Bawana, according to The Federal.

CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, lawyer Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav were also among those detained, according to Al Jazeera.

The CPI(M) alleged that its leaders were manhandled and denied food, water and medication, and that two of its leaders were injured, which are party allegations.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said on X that the Modi government had turned the Mother of Democracy into a Muzzled Democracy, according to Al Jazeera.

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra dismissed the demonstrators as anarchic elements, said the protest had flopped and said that India was calm under good governance, according to Al Jazeera.

The protests were called against the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, which the Election Commission describes as routine.

More than 30,000 security personnel were deployed, with barricades across central Delhi, according to The Federal.

Counts of those detained varied from hundreds to more than 7,000 in different reports and could not be reconciled.

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The BJP won three of the six seats, in West Bengal and Assam.

The ruling TVK won both Tamil Nadu seats.

The AINRC won in Puducherry.

A bypoll fills a vacancy and does not change who governs.

Margins differ slightly between reports.

In Rejinagar, the BJP’s Shankharavh Sarkar won with 1,29,914 votes, ahead of the AJUP’s Golam Nabi Azad with 54,098 votes, according to ETV Bharat.

Rejinagar’s margin was 75,816 votes in the main report, and other live items gave figures such as 75,691.

In Assam’s Nagaon Lok Sabha seat, the BJP’s Devasish Sharma won, ahead of the AIUDF’s Badruddin Ajmal.

The Sentinel reported Sharma’s margin as 1,42,224 votes, while ETV Bharat gave 1,40,257, so the margin is about 1.4 lakh.

The Congress’s Sibamoni Bora finished third in Nagaon, according to the Sentinel.

Assam Chief Minister called the win a tribute to the Prime Minister’s leadership, according to ETV Bharat.

In Tamil Nadu, the ruling TVK won both Madurantakam and Dharapuram.

In Madurantakam, TVK’s K. Maragatham Kumaravel won by about 20,000 votes over the DMK, according to India TV and ETV Bharat.

A live blog by DT Next gave an earlier-stage margin of 19,312 for Madurantakam, so the final margin should be checked against the Election Commission’s figures.

In Dharapuram, TVK’s Sathyabama polled 66,841 votes against 57,370 for the DMK, and the margin was 9,471 votes, according to ETV Bharat.

The DMK finished second in both Tamil Nadu seats and the AIADMK third, according to ETV Bharat.

In Puducherry’s Thattanchavady, the AINRC’s Ashok Anand won by 8,482 votes over the Congress’s E. Vinayagam, according to India TV.

Anand polled 13,358 votes against 4,876 for Vinayagam, and the DMK’s K. Sethu got 2,664.

The seat fell vacant because N. Rangasamy won two constituencies in April 2026 and kept Mangalam.

Rangasamy had won Thattanchavady by 4,441 votes in April, so the margin of 8,482 is nearly double that.

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