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NEW DELHI: Indian police detained several people in the capital New Delhi on Saturday, disrupting a second day of protests backed by the \u200bGen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party and other opposition groups against changes \u200cto voter rolls.<\/strong><\/p>\n The protesters say the changes benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s governing party and are demanding the resignation of India\u2019s election chief.<\/span><\/p>\n About 100 demonstrators removed \u2060security barricades on Saturday and chanted \u201cvote thief, leave the post\u201d and \u201cGyanesh Kumar, step \u200bdown\u201d before police forcibly detained some of them.<\/span><\/p>\n Independent Member of Parliament Kapil Sibal, \u200bleft-wing All India Students\u2019 Association President Neha Bora and political activists Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav were among the protesters, according to a Reuters witness.<\/span><\/p>\n The police declined comment on the number \u200band identity of those detained.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFirst they removed people from the voters list \u200band now they are not letting us raise our voice against this. This is not acceptable,\u201d \u200cBora \u2060told Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n The chief of the Election Commission, Kumar, has not commented on the protests and the demands to step down.<\/span><\/p>\n On Friday, police stopped a group of protesters from gathering, bundling them into buses. Several nearby metro stations remained shut \u200bamid tight security.<\/span><\/p>\n Though police \u200breleased many of \u2060those detained on Friday, they charged several of them with allegedly violating orders banning mass gatherings in Delhi, according \u200bto a police source.<\/span><\/p>\n Critics say a nationwide voter-verification exercise launched \u200blast year \u2060has led to millions of eligible voters being removed from electoral rolls.<\/span><\/p>\n