新德里，印度 – 周六早上，警察在贾antar Mantar附近的殖民时代广场康诺特广场周围的街道上设置了重型警察路障，因为警方已开始拘留前来参加计划示威的抗议者群体。
New Delhi, India – Heavy police barricades line the streets around Connaught Place, the colonial-era square near Jantar Mantar, on Saturday morning as police have begun detaining groups of protesters arriving for planned demonstrations.
他们在此支持有影响力的Z世代运动和蟑螂人民党，该党呼吁印度选举委员会主席辞职，就在世界上人口最多的民主国家中，谁有资格投票的争议日益激烈之际。
They are here in support of the influential Gen-Z movement and Cockroach Janta Party, which have called for the resignation of Indias election chief, amid a bitter dispute over who gets to vote in the worlds most populous democracy.
抗议者要求进行广泛的改革，并撤销一项有争议的选民名单修订行动，该行动已从选民名单中删除1.3亿个名字。
Protesters are demanding sweeping reforms and a rollback of a controversial voter revision exercise which has struck 130 million names from the voter list.
目前，新德里市中心部分地区笼罩着一种诡异的沉默。纳伦德拉·莫迪总理的政府不遗余力地将这座城市变成了要塞，在街道上部署了近3万名人员。警方还拘留了蟑螂人民党的创始人阿比吉特·迪普克。
For now, an eerie silence hangs over parts of central New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s government has gone to lengths to turn the city into a fortress, deploying nearly 30,000 personnel onto the streets. Police have also detained the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, Abhijeet Dipke.
印度电视台周六早上早些时候报道称，警方在迪普克从金融之都孟买抵达新德里机场后与他会面，并要求他取消抗议活动，因为当局已禁止该活动。
Indian TV channels reported early on Saturday that officers met Dipke at New Delhi airport after he arrived from the financial capital Mumbai and asked him to call off the protest as authorities had banned it.
蟑螂人民党领导人萨乌拉夫·达斯和阿舒托什·兰卡也在降落后从航班上被拘留，该运动在一份声明中如此表示。
CJP leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were also detained from their flight upon landing, the movement said in a statement.
周五，政府异常取消了所有前往新德里的列车；封锁了超过50个地铁站；实施了互联网关闭；并向当地社区的数千名学生派遣人员，警告他们不要参加抗议活动。
On Friday, the government extraordinarily cancelled all trains to New Delhi; locked down more than 50 metro stations; imposed an internet shutdown; and sent personnel to thousands of students in local communities to warn them against participation in the protest.
许多来自印度不同邦的学生在前往新德里的途中被警察从火车和公交车上拖下并被拘留。许多人被安置在距离新德里数百公里以外的城市的软禁状态。
Several students en route to New Delhi from different states of India were dragged out of trains and buses and detained by the police. Many have been placed under house arrest in cities hundreds of kilometres away from New Delhi.
蟑螂运动称，随着莫迪政府加强镇压力度，全国已有数千人被拘留。然而，毫不气馁的抗议者誓言将继续回到街头。
The Cockroach movement says thousands have been detained across India as Modi`s government intensifies its crackdown. Yet undeterred protesters have pledged to keep returning to the streets.
印度首都的现行限制以及全国范围内对抗议者的镇压，唤起了人们对1975年紧急状态的记忆——当时时任总理英迪拉·甘地暂停了公民自由，审查了新闻媒体，并监禁了政治对手。
Current restrictions in the Indian capital and the nationwide crackdown on protesters have evoked memories of the 1975 Emergency, when then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi suspended civil liberties, censored the press and jailed political opponents.
“纳伦德拉·莫迪刚刚让紧急状态正式化，”蟑螂运动的创始人迪普克在X平台的一篇帖子中写道。“这种恐吓不会奏效，莫迪。这个国家的年轻人不再害怕你。”火热的Z世代抗议领袖、全印度学生联合会全国主席尼哈·博拉将莫迪政府等同于曾试图镇压印度独立运动但最终失败的英国殖民势力。她呼吁群众加入抗议。周六早上，尽管警方已设置限制，年轻人仍试图回应她的号召。
“Narendra Modi just made EMERGENCY official,” Dipke, the founder of the Cockroach movement, wrote in a post on X. “This intimidation is not going to work, Modi. The youth of this country are no longer scared of you.”Neha Bora, the firebrand Gen-Z protest leader and the national president of the left student body All India StudentsAssociation, equated the Modi government with British colonialist forces that unsuccessfully clamped down on Indias independence movement. She called on the masses to join the protest. On Saturday morning, young people were trying to respond to her call despite the police restrictions in place.
29岁的桑托什·库马尔是康诺特广场外环的一名街道清洁工，他告诉半岛电视台，看到青少年在警察路障处被拘留，他感到沮丧。
Santosh Kumar, 29, a street sweeper in the outer circle of Connaught Place, told Al Jazeera he feels frustrated seeing teenagers detained at police barricades.
“你怎么能阻止这些孩子？他们拘留了10人；还有50人正在赶来。莫迪，独裁者的时代已经结束：他甚至不会待到2029年（下次大选的时间）。”
“How can you stop these kids? They are detaining 10; 50 more are coming. Modi, the dictator`s time is up: He will not even stay until 2029 (the time of the next elections).
“这就是我们把德里变成尼泊尔和孟加拉国的时候——向他们学习，夺回我们的国家，”他说，指的是那些国家的青年领导的运动。
“This is the time we turn Delhi into Nepal and Bangladesh – learn from them and take back our country,” he said, referring to youth-led movements in those countries.
28岁的古鲁格拉姆工程师萨米尔·伊尔沙德在推着他57岁的母亲谢巴·阿卜迪的轮椅时，来到了康诺特广场附近的路障。
Sameer Irshad, 28, an engineer from Gurugram, approached the barricades near Connaught Place while pushing his 57-year-old mother Sheeba Abdi in a wheelchair.
阿卜迪告诉我们：“这种镇压，使我们无法和平表达异议，在德里是前所未见的。政府为什么把这个地方变成了要塞？他们为什么如此害怕像我这样的公民？”上个月，印度因有关所谓自主机构——负责选举的机构内部存在分歧的揭露而震惊，批评者称其有争议的政策已剥夺了数千万人的选举权。
Abdi told us: “This sort of crackdown, where we cannot peacefully express our dissent, is unseen in Delhi. Why has government turned this place into a fortress? Why are they so scared of citizens like me?”Last month, India was shaken by revelations of divisions within the supposedly autonomous body that is in charge of conducting elections, over controversial policies that critics say have disenfranchised tens of millions of people.
印度选举委员会主席吉亚内什·库马尔被指无视其他两名选举委员员对选民数据库持续修改完整性所提出的担忧，印度快报的一项调查报道指出。印度是少数几个积极推动为每一位选民登记的国家之一。
India`s Election Commission chief, Gyanesh Kumar, was accused of overruling concerns raised by the two other election commissioners about the integrity of ongoing changes in the voter database, an investigation by The Indian Express reported. India is among the few countries to have taken an active approach to enrolling every last voter.
批评人士称，对选民名单的持续修改颠覆了印度民主的根本原则：要求公民证明其投票权，并且对穆斯林、经济较弱群体、少数群体以及印度社会其他弱势群体产生不成比例的影响。
Critics say the ongoing revision of the voter list flips the foundational principle of Indian democracy: Demanding that citizens prove their voting rights, and disproportionately targeting Muslims, economically weaker sections, minorities and other vulnerable groups in Indian society.
阿里夫是印度学生联合会的24岁地区协调员，也是另一个加入抗议呼吁的左翼学生组织成员，他在周四被锁在萨哈兰普尔的家中，该地距离新德里近200公里（125英里）。
Arif, a 24-year-old district coordinator for the Students` Federation of India, another left-wing student organisation to have joined the protest call, was locked in his home in Saharanpur, nearly 200km (125 miles) from New Delhi, on Thursday.
“几名警察官员深夜毫无预兆地开始敲打我的门，要求我的父母提供我的行踪详情，”阿里夫对半岛电视台表示，他不愿透露全名，目前他在萨哈兰普尔的家中被警方24小时监视看守。
“Several police officials started beating my door out of nowhere late at night, asking my parents for details of my whereabouts,” Arif, who did not want to give his full name, told Al Jazeera from his home in Saharanpur, where he is currently detained under the police`s watch around the clock.
“他们只是想阻止我前往德里参加抗议。他们威胁要以刑事案件起诉我，毁掉我的未来，”他说，并补充说这是他第一次遭遇这样的拘留。
“They just want to stop me from going to Delhi for protest. They are threatening to book me under criminal cases and destroy my future,” he said, adding that this is the first time he has been subject to such detention.
“我真的很想去德里，为了战斗和夺回我们的民主。莫迪的时代已经结束，”他说。
“I really wanted to be in Delhi, to fight and reclaim our democracy. The time for Modi is over,” he said.
本周，莫迪及其印度人民党（BJP）庆祝他执政25周年，从他担任西部邦古吉拉特邦首席部长时期算起——当时他监督了臭名昭著的2002年穆斯林大屠杀——随后自2014年起担任印度总理。
This week, Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BNP) celebrated his 25 years in office, starting with his years as chief minister of the western state of Gujarat – where he oversaw the infamous 2002 Muslim pogrom – and later as India`s prime minister since 2014.
但分析人士和印度政治观察家认为，莫迪如今在权力中的地位比以往任何时候都更为薄弱。
But Modi has never looked weaker in power than now, analysts and Indian political observers argue.
七月份，由“蟑螂”领导的抗议活动堵塞了新德里的关键街道，迫使教育部长达曼德拉·普拉丹下台。
In July, the Cockroach-led protests choked key New Delhi streets and forced out Modi`s education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan.
这一次，莫迪采取了更为极端的措施，以防止抗议者在新德里市中心立足，“因为他希望保持一位永不向公众压力屈服、不可战胜的领导人的光环和形象”，作者兼莫迪传记作者尼兰詹·穆霍帕迪亚表示。
This time, Modi has taken more extreme measures to prevent protesters from gaining a foothold in central New Delhi, “because he wishes to retain the aura and image of a leader who never yields to public pressure, someone who is invincible”, said Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, an author and biographer of Modi.
“莫迪在公众眼中正处于其政治生命的最低点。这极具悖论性，因为他实际上控制着一些最重要的自治机构、官僚体系的大部分以及各州机构，并且这些机构都在按照他的意愿行事，”穆霍帕迪亚对半岛电视台说。
“Modi appears at the lowest point [of his political life] in public perception. This is extremely paradoxical because he has some of the most important autonomous institutions, large sections of the bureaucracy, and state wings in tight control and acting at his behest,” Mukhopadhyay told Al Jazeera.
面对日益增长的抗议，莫迪如今“正在快速失去人民眼中带领他们摆脱生存困境的领导人形象”，他说。
In the face of growing protests, Modi is now “fast losing people`s perception of being a leader who leads them out of livelihood pits”, he said.
最高法院资深律师、人权活动家普拉尚特·布尚原计划于周六参加抗议活动，他对半岛电视台表示：“莫迪政府看来对人民相当害怕。”
Prashant Bhushan, a senior lawyer at the Supreme Court and a rights activist who planned to join the protest on Saturday, told Al Jazeera that “Modi`s government looks quite scared of the people.
“印度人民正在觉醒并要求得到答案。而当政府感到害怕时，他们就会采取残酷的手段来维持统治，”布尚说。“但只有越来越多的人会在压迫中崛起。”
“People in India are rising and demanding answers. And when the government gets scared, they adopt draconian measures to stay in power,” Bhushan said. “But only more and more people will rise from repression.”