New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- Tens of thousands of Indians are on the streets again. Led by a bolt-from-the-blue insurgent movement of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), citizens are protesting the unprecedented culling of voter rolls through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 'process.'

They are demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, under whose leadership millions of voters were ruled ineligible to cast their ballots. In West Bengal, this amounted to about 12% of the electorate.

This movement comes merely weeks after a similar agitation by the CJP led to the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as India's education minister.

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