New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday criticised the security restrictions imposed across Delhi amid the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) at Jantar Mantar protest against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar. He described the arrangement in the national capital as as unprecedented and likening it to an "undeclared Emer-GenZ".

In a strongly worded statement, Tharoor flagged checkpoints every few hundred metres, concrete barriers and spike strips laid across our roads, a war-like deployment of 22,000 police and paramilitary across the city, 250 trains cancelled and 45 metro stations closed, and reports of young people being detained from their own homes and the streets in and around Delhi.

Tharoor particularly...