数千人周六在新德里被拘留，印度当局发动了一场大规模安全行动，以阻止由青年领导的“蟑螂”运动发起的抗议，该运动要求该国选举委员会主席辞职。
Thousands of people were detained across New Delhi on Saturday as Indian authorities mounted a sweeping security operation to stop a protest by the youth-led “cockroach” movement demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief.
警方在印度首都各地布防，以封锁詹塔尔曼塔尔（Jantar Mantar）——一个指定的抗议场地——的通道，在检查站拦截公交车和汽车，设置路障，并在关键路线部署配备催泪瓦斯发射器的防暴车辆。
Police fanned out across India’s capital to block access to Jantar Mantar, a designated protest site, stopping buses and cars at checkpoints, erecting barricades and deploying antiriot vehicles equipped with tear gas launchers along key routes.
许多示威者在到达新德里市中心之前就被截住，被驱散或被拖上警车送往临时拘留中心。多名运动领袖、反对党议员和学生活动人士在途中被捕，有效地在抗议开始前就将其制止。
Many demonstrators were intercepted long before they reached central New Delhi, chased away or dragged into police vehicles and taken to temporary detention centres. Several movement leaders, opposition lawmakers and student activists were detained en route, effectively halting the rally before it began.
当局表示，他们拒绝了这次集会的申请，因为申请提交得太晚，并坚称这些措施是维持秩序所必需的。印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪所属的印度人民党（BJP）发言人桑比特·帕特拉（Sambit Patra）将抗议者称为“无政府主义分子”，称其为“一场失败的表演”。
Authorities said they had denied permission for the gathering because the request was submitted late and insisted the measures were necessary to maintain order. Sambit Patra, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, dismissed the protesters as “anarchic elements” staging a “flop show”.
尽管遭到镇压，仍有部分抗议者冲破警察封锁线，高喊反对莫迪和印度选举委员会（ECI）的口号，随后被拘留。“我们是一个民主国家，却和平抗议也被武力镇压，”来自孟买的大学生塔尼娅·内吉（Tanya Negi）说。“莫迪为何害怕印度的年轻人？”
Despite the clampdown, some protesters broke through police cordons, chanting slogans against Modi and the Election Commission of India (ECI), before being detained. “We are a democracy, yet peaceful protests are being crushed by force,” said college student Tanya Negi, who travelled from Mumbai. “Why is Modi afraid of India’s young people?”
由“蟑螂人民党”（Cockroach Janta Party，CJP）领导的该运动始于今年五月的线上，随后因抗议考试试卷泄漏事件而声名鹊起，该事件导致莫迪政府的教育部长在七月辞职。
The movement led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) emerged online in May and gained prominence through protests over exam paper leaks that led to the resignation of Modi’s education minister in July.
其最新运动针对的是印度选举委员会的“特别强化修订”（SIR），反对党称该行动已从选民名单中删除超过1.3亿人，导致其支持者被剥夺选举权。
Its latest campaign targets the ECI’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR), which opposition parties say has already removed more than 130 million names from voter rolls and disenfranchised supporters.
选举委员会和政府否认存在任何政治偏见，但批评人士称，随着关键州选举的临近，此次打压凸显了异议空间的持续缩小。
The ECI and the government deny any political bias, but critics say the crackdown highlights shrinking space for dissent as key state polls approach.
