India, Oct. 15 -- Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke, in a joint press conference on Thursday, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of shielding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

Speaking to the media at the Press Club of India, the CJP leader also accused the PM of putting Kumar above students, youth, opposition leaders, and thousands of protesters staging protests over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral polls by the Election Commission of India.

Dipke was joined by Neha Bora, Aishe Ghosh, advocate Prashant Bhushan and actor Prakash Raj. The press conference from the CJP leader comes ahead of the flag march scheduled for Friday, October 16, at Connaught Place's Central Par...