
侨民团体周二晚间在伦敦印度高级专员公署外举行抗议活动,声援新德里关于选举改革和抗议权力的示威活动。
Diaspora groups rallied outside India's High Commission in London to support electoral reform protests.
此次集会支持“小强人民党”(Cockroach Janata Party,简称CJP)、学生团体以及反对派政,党的诉求,包括罢免首席选举专员(CEC)吉亚内什·库马尔(Gyanesh Kumar),以及废除选民名册的“特别深入修订”(SIR)。
The demonstration broadened UK solidarity over voting rights and freedom to protest. Diaspora groups in the UK held a protest outside the High Commission of India in London on Tuesday evening in solidarity with demonstrations in New Delhi over electoral reforms and the right to protest.
这场抗议活动被称为“紧急抗议”,由南亚团结集团(South Asia Solidarity Group)、剑桥反印度教民族主义南亚论坛(Cambridge South Asian Forum Against Hindutva)、印度工人协会(Indian Workers' Association)和伦敦大学亚非学院安贝德卡协会(SOAS Ambedkar Society)等组织共同召集。大量学生参加了抗议活动。
The gathering backed the demands of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), student groups and opposition parties, including the removal of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and the scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Described as an “Emergency Protest”, the demonstration was convened by the South Asia Solidarity Group, Cambridge South Asian Forum Against Hindutva, Indian Workers' Association and SOAS Ambedkar Society, among other organisations. A large number of students attended the protest.
参与者表达了对“简塔曼塔2.0抗议活动”(Jantar Mantar 2.0 protests)以及组织者所描述的印度捍卫投票权和抗议权斗争的声援。此次集会的目的是“扩大”小强人民党的诉求。
Participants expressed solidarity with the “Jantar Mantar 2.0 protests” and what organisers described as the struggle in India to defend the right to vote and the right to protest. The gathering was called to “amplify” the CJP's demands.
“这不仅仅是关于一个腐败官员的事,这是一场群众起义,”南亚团结集团的穆克蒂·沙阿(Mukti Shah)说。“对我们这些在英国的人来说,这尤为重要,因为这个政权是全球极右翼的关键成员,而极右翼在这个国家的活动正日益频繁。”学生团体领导人在集会上发表了讲话,并呼吁其成员组织起来,声援印度的抗议者。示威者还手持针对首席选举专员的标语牌,并谴责他们所说的“针对抗议者、记者和律师的警察暴力和性暴力”。
“This is not just about one corrupt official, it is a mass uprising,” said Mukti Shah of the South Asia Solidarity Group. “For us in Britain, it is especially important because this regime is a key player in the global far-right, which is increasingly active in this country.”Leaders of student groups addressed the gathering and called on their members to organise in solidarity with protesters in India. Demonstrators also held placards targeting the CEC and condemning what they described as “police brutality and sexual violence against protesters, journalists and lawyers”.
此次示威活动是英国更广泛声援行动的一部分。全印学生联合会英国分部(Students' Federation of India UK)本周还在加的夫、利兹和爱丁堡组织了集会。
The demonstration was part of a wider show of solidarity in the UK. The Students' Federation of India UK also organised gatherings in Cardiff, Leeds and Edinburgh during the week.
在新德里,抗议活动不断加剧,小强人民党、学生团体和反对派政党要求进行选举改革,并因去年开始的全国范围内的“特别深入修订”(SIR)选民名册修订工作存在涉嫌违规行为而要求库马尔辞职。
Protests have intensified in New Delhi, where the CJP, student groups and opposition parties have demanded electoral reforms and Kumar's resignation over alleged irregularities in the nationwide revision of electoral rolls under the SIR exercise, which began last year.
选举委员会坚称,该工作的目的是通过识别已故、重复、迁移以及其他不符合条件的登记信息来更新选民名册。英国的集会重申了对印度抗议活动的声援,以及对有关“特别深入修订”工作和首席选举专员诉求的支持。
The Election Commission has maintained that the exercise is aimed at updating electoral rolls by identifying deceased, duplicate, shifted and otherwise ineligible entries. The UK gatherings reiterated solidarity with the protests in India and the demands concerning the SIR exercise and the CEC.