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Dhruv Rathee, Prakash Raj to join CJP’s protest against SIR in Bengaluru

The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) will hold a People’s Tribunal at Freedom Park over allegations of wrongful deletions from Karnataka’s electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).

Bengaluru: Actor Prakash Raj and YouTuber Dhruv Rathee are set to participate in a public hearing in Bengaluru on Thursday over allegations of wrongful deletions from Karnataka’s electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).

The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is organising the People’s Tribunal at Freedom Park from 10.30 am under the slogan “Save Our Votes, Save Democracy”. The event will hear from voters who claim their names were wrongly removed from the electoral rolls, followed by a “chappal protest”.

Raj, who has criticised the SIR exercise, announced the programme on Wednesday and said Rathee would attend as a special guest. Rathee later confirmed his participation in a video posted on X.

CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke, co-convener Ashutosh Ranka and spokesperson Saurav Das are among those expected to attend, along with youth organisations and civil society groups. Student leader Aishe Ghosh and AISA president Neha Bora are also expected to speak.

The chappal protest is being held in solidarity with three women journalists who alleged that Delhi Police officers sexually harassed them during a protest at Jantar Mantar on October 3. Police have said the allegations are being examined. Dipke has called for the arrest of the officer accused.

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The CJP is also demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and has threatened to march to Jantar Mantar on October 10 if he does not step down.

According to a South Matters report, Karnataka’s draft electoral roll listed over 1.08 crore entries as absent, shifted, dead, duplicate or under other categories following the SIR. The figure does not indicate that all the voters were wrongly deleted.

Congress general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala claimed on September 24 that around 13 crore names had been removed from electoral rolls across 19 states since June 2025, including 1.43 crore in Karnataka.

The CJP began as a youth-led satirical online movement in May and has since expanded into street protests targeting the Election Commission.

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