Chandigarh, October 10, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) staged a protest outside the Election Commission office in Chandigarh on Saturday against alleged electoral irregularities and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists. Senior party leader and Punjab in-charge Manish Sisodia was detained during the demonstration, police said.
The protest, organised by youth groups in solidarity with the Cockroach Janata Party’s campaign against alleged electoral manipulation, called for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
AAP leaders and workers participated in the demonstration, including Punjab unit president Aman Arora, Cabinet Ministers Harpal Singh Cheema and Baljit Kaur, and party media in-charge Baltej Pannu. The party had announced its support for the youth-led protest ahead of the event.
Sisodia criticised the alleged deletion of voters’ names, maintaining that citizens’ voting rights could not be taken away arbitrarily. He accused the BJP-led Centre and the Election Commission of undermining democratic rights through alleged irregularities in the voter-list revision process.
Security arrangements were strengthened at the protest venue ahead of the demonstration. The detention of Sisodia and other AAP leaders marked a key development in the Chandigarh protest, which was part of a wider political mobilisation over the SIR exercise and demands for accountability from the Election Commission.
Meanwhile, Punjab BJP chief Kewal Singh Dhillon criticised AAP’s protest and accused the party of electoral malpractice.
“The Aam Aadmi Party itself has engaged in vote theft. During the municipal elections, the Supreme Court directed re-elections in Patiala, Moga and Baghapurana because the AAP rigged the polls… They are now protesting over the same issue. They should be ashamed,” Dhillon said.
The rival allegations brought the dispute over electoral processes into focus, with AAP questioning the voter-list revision exercise and the BJP leader accusing the ruling party in Punjab of hypocrisy.
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