India, Oct. 22 -- Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke, student leaders Neha Bora and Aishe Ghosh, and senior advocate Prashant Bhushan are among the prominent figures invited to a march in the Capital on Friday to "restore democracy", demand the removal of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and press for the scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Economist Parakala Prabhakar, actor-activist Prakash Raj, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait and author Tushar Gandhi have also been invited for the march that is also scheduled to be held in other parts of the country.

The marches - organised by People Against SIR, a week-old alliance of students, farmers and civil society groups - have been ...