Mass protest erupts at Bengaluru's Freedom Park over SIR; Dhruv Rathee, Prakash Raj join People's Tribunal

More than 2,000 protesters gathered at Freedom Park in Bengaluru on Thursday morning for a state-level mass demonstration and 'People’s tribunal'. The protest demanded the immediate scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and a return to paper ballots. Participants included YouTuber Dhruv Rathee, actor-activist Prakash Raj, and political commentator Parakala Prabhakar. Organizers alleged that the SIR exercise has led to arbitrary voter deletions, affecting over one crore names out of 5.5 crore voters in Karnataka.