India, Oct. 11 -- As chants of "Vote chor, gaddi chhod" ("Vote thief, vacate your seat") rang out, the old and historic neighbourhood of Nana Chowk in South Mumbai spontaneously turned into a fortified protest site on Saturday.

More than 300 police personnel chased citizens supporting the CJP-led protest in Delhi against Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar; they broke human chains forming spontaneously; and stuffed protestors into waiting police vans before carting them off to seven police stations. Police also used a drone to monitor the gathering.

The aim was to prevent protestors from reaching the historic August Kranti Maidan, from where Mahatma Gandhi had launched the Quit India Movement with the iconic "Do or Die" call for freedom...