India, Oct. 10 -- A heavy police crackdown and security deployment in the national capital in light of the Cockroach Janata Party's (CJP) scheduled protest at Jantar Mantar have drawn flak from several figures in the film industry. The protest against the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was called by the CJP to demand Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over alleged irregularities in the revised voter roll.

Key CJP leaders, including Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das, and Ashutosh Ranka, were detained along with hundreds of protestors and journalists trying to gather in Central Delhi.

Actor and activist Prakash Raj took to his X account and shared a cartoon by Satish Acharya. He wrote in the caption, ...