Delhi detains hundreds as protesters demand CEC resignation

Jayanta Roy Chowdhury New Delhi, Oct 10 (UNI) Police on Saturday detained hundreds of protesters on Saturday, including Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the youth outfit Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, besides dozens of political activists, in a bid to thwart a protest at Jantar Mantar, the iconic medieval era stone-built set of astronomical instruments, demanding the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar, the country's chief election commissioner. Authorities deployed tens of thousands of police and paramilitary personnel, shut down scores of metro stations, cancelled a large number of trains headed for Delhi as well as barricaded the central business…