New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- As the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) prepares for its 'Lehra Do Tiranga' marches across the country on Friday, October 16, attention is on Delhi and Mumbai. In Delhi, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has shut Central Park in Connaught Place to the public for two days, while Mumbai Police have allowed a rally at Azad Maidan.

Delhi has more than 6,000 police personnel and 220 companies of Central Armed Police Forces deployed, with barricades at Connaught Place, Patel Chowk, ITO and Sansad Marg and new CCTV cameras at Central Park and Rajiv Chowk. Police say the CJP's proposed 5 pm march has not been granted permission, and Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), which bars mass gatherings, is...