Why we march
The great Indian democracy is under siege. For 12 years, not only has the BJP arm-twisted our independent democratic institutions, from courts to the ECI—but it has bashed, battered, and silenced us citizens from speaking up. It has crushed the voices of the vulnerable. It has caged our brightest scholars, brutalised our students, and refused our elderly a dignified life. But this stops now.
The BJP has now become an affront to the Indian identity itself. On October 13, it ordered the arrest of Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das for simply waving the Indian flag at Delhi’s designated protest site, Jantar Mantar. They continue to be in custody and denied a fair trial. Their crime? Celebrating the Indian identity and our beloved tricolour. Acting under the direct orders of Home Minister Amit Shah, the Delhi Police has also brutalised, assaulted, sexually harassed, and detained countless protestors for waving the tricolour and chanting slogans of accountability between October 10 to today.
It has become clear that BJP is ordering barbaric arrests and detentions of peaceful protestors, flanked on both ends by police brutality and custodial violence, to shield a thoroughly corrupt, dishonorable, and deficient Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, from public backlash and scrutiny. By doing this, BJP has cemented our year-long suspicions: that the Election Commission has enabled vote chori, voter manipulation, and mass disenfranchisement of poor, vulnerable, and marginalised voters, hence corrupting the great Indian electoral democracy.
Little do they know, we will not let our democracy be corrupted.
We will fight for voter enfranchisement, equality, accountability, and democracy—just like our freedom fighters fought for an Independent India.
India will be independent from corrupt gundaraj once again.
“People Against SIR” calls for a united People’s March on October 23 (Friday) across the country to show the BJP we are not afraid to stand together as one to restore the democratic India we love and serve. As has been the case since day 1, we march in peace, with patriotic fervour, celebrating our tricolour, and echoing our list of demands:
- That Gyanesh Kumar is a Gaddar to Indian democracy, and must be impeached and penalised for his Gaddari!
- That the botched SIR process that has disenfranchised voters since June 2025 must be stopped and scrapped altogether, and the wrongfully deleted voters must be reinstituted in the electoral rolls!
- That the Election Commission be democratically reformed and Amendment to the Election Commissioners Act 2023 repealed!
- That the people of India must be able to exercise their constitutional right to protest, and their patriotic celebration of waving the tricolour in public spaces and streets must never be penalised!
The BJP thinks it can decide who is an Indian and who is not by removing our names from voter rolls. But sahib, a real Indian is one who is not afraid to fight for their country, to wave their national flag with pride, and to demand accountability from a corrupt government official.
So come, let’s perform our civic duties and hold power to account on October 23 (Friday) on our streets and reclaim our right to protest. Har gali Jantar Mantar!