青年抗议运动的成员在机场被拦截、被路障挡住后感到愤怒。“我们不是这个国家的孩子吗？”20岁的谭迈·科利独自乘坐火车两天，来到国家首都。他找到了一座锡克教寺庙，坐了一会儿吃点东西。随后，他和另外两个像他一样从遥远家乡乘火车来的年轻男子一起，走上了新德里的街道。
Members of a youth protest movement are outraged after being intercepted at airports and stopped by barricades. “Aren’t we children of this nation?”Tanmay Koli, 20, rode a train for two days by himself to come to his nation’s capital. He found his way to a Sikh temple to sit for a while and eat. Then he headed out into the streets of New Delhi with two other young men, who, like him, had come by train from their own hometowns far away.
周六，这三个直到几小时前还互不相识的人，一起坐在路边的路缘石上，凝视着路障和一排排安全部队。他们说他们很紧张，但他们想来这里。“他们在偷窃选票，”科利先生说。他来自南方的城市浦那。
On Saturday, all three of them, strangers until just a few hours ago, sat together on a curb staring at barricades and a phalanx of security forces. They were nervous, they said, but they wanted to be here. “They’re stealing votes,” Mr. Koli, said. He had come from Pune, a city to the south.
“民主不再安全，”他的新朋友说，一名28岁男子，因担心报复，只透露了他的名字——欧姆。他从北方的城市昌迪加尔来到这里。
“Democracy is not safe,” said his new friend, a 28-year-old man who, fearing reprisal, gave only his first name, Om. He had traveled from Chandigarh, a city to the north.
他们是来抗议数百万人被从选民名单中抹去的众多印度青年中的一部分。为了阻止他们，警方取消了几趟火车，关闭了数十个地铁站，并在首都中心布满了黄色路障、公交车以及手持盾牌和警棍的安全部队。
They were among the scores of young Indians who arrived in Delhi to protest the erasure of millions of people from voter rolls. To keep them away, the police canceled several trains, closed dozens of metro stations and filled the center of the capital with yellow barricades, buses and security forces bearing shields and batons.
在采访和社交媒体帖子中，这些准备抗议的年轻人——其中许多人是专注于Z世代的“蟑螂人民党”的支持者或领袖——对当局在示威尚未开始前就采取的强硬手段以压制示威表示愤怒和沮丧。
terviews and in social media posts, the would-be protesters, many of them supporters or leaders of the Gen Z-focused Cockroach Janta Party, expressed outrage and frustration at the heavy-handed measures to snuff out the demonstration before it began.
该党创始人阿比吉特·迪普克在周六抵达新德里后，一落地就被警察拦截，他和团队如此表示。他在Instagram上上传了警员登机拘捕他的视频。同样，他的另外两位“蟑螂人民党”领袖——萨乌拉夫·达斯和阿舒托什·兰卡——也遭到拦截，党在一份声明中如此表示。
Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of the party, was intercepted by the police as soon as he landed in New Delhi on Saturday, he and the group said. On Instagram, he uploaded video of officers boarding the aircraft to detain him. So, too, were his two fellow Cockroach leaders, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, the party said in a statement.
“这是独裁，”当一名警官走近他的座位时，迪普克先生的话被录下。
“This is dictatorship,” Mr. Dipke is heard saying as an officer approached his seat.
拉特纳·辛格（Ratna Singh）是蟑螂人民党（Cockroach Janta Party）法律团队的负责人，她说有超过两打警察包围了她的汽车，将她困在车内。该团体分享的一段视频中，辛格女士表示，警察告诉她他们想把她带回家并将她扣留在那里。当她要求出示逮捕令时，警察说：“我们奉命行事。”她在视频中说：“我不下车，他们也不离开这个空间。”
Ratna Singh, who leads the Cockroach Janta Party’s legal team, said more than two dozen police officers surrounded her car, trapping her inside. In a video shared by the group, Ms. Singh says the police told her they wanted to take her to her house and hold her there. When she asked them for a warrant, the police said: “We have orders from above.”“I am not getting out of the car, and they are not leaving this space,” she says in the video.
周六，近300名准备参加抗议的人聚集在距离詹塔尔曼塔尔（Jantar Mantar）约一英里半的一座锡克教寺庙内，该地点原定举行示威活动。其中大多数人是在夜间到达的，但通往示威地点的道路被警察封锁。
Nearly 300 would-be protesters were holed up on Saturday inside a Sikh temple about a mile and a half from Jantar Mantar, the site where the demonstration was supposed to be held. Most of them had arrived during the night, but the road to the site was barricaded by the police.
“我来这里不仅是为了抗议我们选票中的腐败，也是为了抗议教育系统中的腐败，”23岁的拉基（Lucky）说。他只透露自己的名字，担心遭到报复。他从东部邦比哈尔（Bihar）的村庄乘火车旅行了14小时才到达这里。
“I am here to protest against not just the corruption with our votes, but also the corruption in the education system,” said Lucky, 23, who would only identify himself by his first name for fear of reprisal. He had traveled 14 hours by train from his village in Bihar, a state to the east.
“我不认为他们会开枪射击我们或杀死我们，”他说。“最多，他们会把我们送进监狱 — — 我已经做好准备。”靠近詹塔尔曼塔尔处，一群女子坐在路边，等待其他抗议者到来。
“I don’t think they will shoot us or kill us,” he said. “At most, they will take us to jail — and I am ready for that.”Closer to Jantar Mantar, a group of women sat on the curb, waiting for other protesters to arrive.
“看看现在的情况，我们的国家是如何对待我们的，”22岁的纳达·哈桑（Nada Haseen）说。“我们只是在争取我们的基本权利 — — 投票权，为此我们正在进行抗议，而且这是一种完全非暴力的抗议方式，宪法允许如此。”她接着补充道：“我们难道不是这个国家的孩子吗？”
“Look at the situation, how our country is treating us,” Nada Haseen, 22, said. “We are asking for our basic right — to vote, and for that we are fighting, in a very nonviolent form of protest, which is allowed in our constitution.”“Aren’t we children of this nation?” she added.