Delhi turns Fortress as anti-CEC protest triggers mass detentions

Parwinder Sandhu New Delhi, Oct 10 (UNI) A planned demonstration against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls triggered widespread detentions, traffic restrictions and a massive security deployment across the national capital on Saturday, with several INDIA bloc leaders, Left organisations, students and activists taken into custody as they attempted to reach Jantar Mantar. Former chief ministers Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal, Pinarayi Vijayan and Manik Sarkar were among those detained at different locations. Others taken into custody included CPI(M) general secretary M A Baby, veteran Left leader Brinda Karat, CPI(ML)…