India, Oct. 10 -- Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has criticised the Centre over the heavy police deployment and security restrictions in Delhi ahead of the Cockroach Janata Party's (CJP) planned protest at Jantar Mantar. He accused the government of "completely shackling freedom of movement" as authorities continued taking action against demonstrations over alleged irregularities in the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

The CJP organised the protest to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of irregularities in the revised voter lists.

Several CJP leaders, including founder Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, were detained. Hundreds of prot...