Blistering Attack : Shashi Tharoor Hits Out At War-Like Deployment In Delhi, Says Our GenZ deserves better than an undeclared Emer-GenZ

As reported by PTI,  Tharoor, who was in Berlin this week, said he returned to the national capital after 2 am and has rarely seen anything like what Delhi is witnessing now.

“Checkpoints every few hundred metres, concrete barriers and spike strips laid across our roads, a “war-like” deployment of 22,000 police and paramilitary across the city, 250 trains cancelled and 45 metro stations closed, and reports of young people being detained from their own homes and the streets in and around Delhi — all to prevent citizens from peacefully raising questions about the integrity of our elections,” he said on X.

I returned to the national capital after 2 am and have rarely seen anything like what Delhi is witnessing now, with checkpoints every few hundred metres, concrete barriers and spike strips laid across our roads, a war-like deployment of 22,000 police and paramilitary across the city, 250 trains cancelled and 45 metro stations closed, and reports of young people being detained from their own homes and the streets in and around Delhi — all to prevent citizens from peacefully raising questions about the integrity of our elections. Most regressive (as well as repressive) is the suspension of the internet in the heart of the national capital.

Freedom of movement stands completely shackled. Jantar Mantar was designated precisely so that citizens could voice dissent in the centre of Delhi, and today even the roads leading to it have been declared out of bounds. One is entitled to ask where this extraordinary manpower and urgency disappear when women in our capital need protection.

Those detained will hvre to be released .And if the protesters simply return on Monday, will the authorities lock down the national capital all over again? Our GenZ deserves better than an undeclared Emer-GenZ.

Barricades will do nothing to restore faith in the Election Commission, and the sooner it answers the public’s questions, the sooner calm will be restored. The strength of a democracy is measured by how it treats those who question its working, and by that measure, what we have seen today is utterly shameful and unconscionable.
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— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) October 10, 2026

“Most regressive (as well as repressive) is the suspension of the internet in the heart of the national capital,” the former Union minister and chairperson of  parliamentary standing committee on External Affairs.

Freedom of movement stands completely shackled, he said.

Jantar Mantar was designated precisely so that citizens could voice dissent in the centre of Delhi, and today even the roads leading to it have been declared out of bounds, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram said.

“One is entitled to ask where this extraordinary manpower and urgency disappear when women in our capital need protection,” Tharoor said.

Noting that those detained will have to be released, Tharoor asked if the protesters simply return on Monday, will the authorities lock down the national capital all over again.

“Our GenZ deserves better than an undeclared Emer-GenZ,” he said.

A government confident in the fairness of its elections would welcome questions about them, whereas one that turns its capital into a fortress to avoid them only deepens the very suspicions it seeks to suppress, he said.

Delhi Police had  detained over 500 protesters, who were trying to reach Jantar Mantar for the proposed CJP stir against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

Ahead of the Cockroach Janta Party’s proposed protest at Jantar Mantar, police sources said over 600 people with criminal records were also detained across all 15 districts of the national capital as part of preventive measures.