A court in India on Wednesday ordered the release of two leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party, the youth-led movement that has led historic waves of protests in India since the summer. Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das were detained amid massive protests last week after they scaled a barricade to enter a site popular for protest, unfurled the national flag and called for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Kumar oversaw the deletion of 130 million names from the voter rolls in India since June of last year. Opposition parties say those impacted are primarily Muslims and other minorities less likely to support the BJP, the Hindu nationalist ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“You have a deep and wide — an ideologically wide — historical culture of resistance in India,” says acclaimed writer and activist Arundhati Roy. At the same time, the Modi government “has three things in its playbook: One is false-flag attacks, two is engineering communal riots, and the third is massive repression. And I don’t think we’ve seen its hand yet.”

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