‘Fighting to save democracy of India’

Leader of the Opposition in Indian Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said they were fighting to save democracy in the country.
“We are not only countering them, we are going to destroy them. I have no interest in what BJP says. I am standing here to save the democracy of India. A few hours ago, 300 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs came here with me. They too are trying to save democracy in the country,” he told reporters. 
Rahul, also the Indian National Congress leader, made the remarks at a protest march to demand the resignation of the election chief over a controversial revision of voter lists. 
The march presents a fresh political challenge to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi midway into his third term, just months after similar protests forced the resignation of his education minister over exam paper leaks.
Police in New Delhi detained several opposition lawmakers as they tried to march demanding the chief election commissioner resign over a controversial voter roll revision.
Rahul Gandhi, his sister Priyanka and other MPs were forced into a police bus. Released shortly after, they resumed their march and began a sit-in near Election Commission headquarters.
Opposition parties accuse Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of 
overseeing a process that could benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), an allegation both the BJP and Election Commission have rejected.
Tuesday's protest came just four days after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a Gen Z-backed online satirical movement, organised demonstrations in Mumbai and Delhi, also demanding the CEC's resignation. The group has described those demonstrations as the beginning of a nationwide campaign and has called for another round of protests on 10 October. 

Lawmakers carried placards, waved the national flag, and shouted slogans against Kumar during the march, roughly 1-km-long, or less than a mile, to the Election Commission headquarters from parliament, through the centre of Delhi.
Some carried placards calling Kumar a traitor and accused the BJP of snatching away the right to vote, while they sat on the road outside the panel's office, demanding to meet him.
Rahul, Priyanka and several more stood on police barricades there, waving the national flag and calling for Kumar to resign.
“Amit Shah, Narendra Modi, Mohan Bhagwat and Gyanesh Kumar... these people have destroyed the country's democratic system. The entire country believes this. The youth of the country believe and understand this,” Rahul said, while claiming that even the police had said the same. He added that he was saying this “with careful consideration”, and claimed that action would be taken “against all of them.”
Hundreds of security personnel, some wearing riot gear and carrying batons, tried to stop Gandhi and other lawmakers from entering the election commission.
Police did not immediately comment on the detentions.
"After failing multiple times, Congress leaders have decided to establish anarchy in the country and attack institutions," BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra told reporters before Tuesday's protest.
TV channels said the Gandhi siblings were among those briefly detained before being released.
The duo sought entry through the grounds of the state radio office next door, where they sat in protest under a tree after the route was blocked, the channels said.