Delhi braces for more protests against election chief amid crackdown

Al Jazeera reports: Opposition parties, joined by student groups, are hitting the streets, disrupting central New Delhi with flash marches. New Delhi, India — India’s main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has returned to the streets of central New Delhi, leading dozens of members of parliament demanding the election chief’s resignation, as protests gather momentum. Gandhi, heir to India’s most influential political dynasty, is seeking to turn a summer youth uprising into a broader challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade-long dominance of Indian politics, putting the Hindu nationalist government under growing pressure.

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