Har gali mein Jantar Mantar: Parakala Prabhakar to join Dipke at anti-SIR protest

India Today · India Today News Desk · 2026-10-21 12:38 UTC

Noted economist Parakala Prabhakar will share the stage with Cockroach Janta Party CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke and actor-activist Prakash Raj in a nationwide protest against the SIR exercise on October 23

Noted economist Parakala Prabhakar will share the stage with Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke and actor-activist Prakash Raj in a nationwide protest against the SIR exercise on October 23.

Noted economist Parakala Prabhakar is set to share the stage with Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke and actor-activist Prakash Raj in a nationwide protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The October 23 protest, being organised by the People Against SIR alliance, will bring together activists, political voices and public figures to demand the scrapping of the SIR and the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar.

"Har gali mein Jantar Mantar! Friday, October 23, 2026. People's march to restore democracy. Let's rise to the challenge," Prabhakar, a vocal critic of the government's economic policies, tweeted. The economist and author, the husband of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, is expected to share the platform with senior advocate Prashant Bhushan, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait, AISA president Neha Bora and author Tushar Gandhi.

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