Following several days of protests over irregularities in the revision of electoral rolls, leader of the opposition Mallikarjun will submit a memorandum to Supreme Court Chief Justice Surya Kant tomorrow (Monday).

The protests are over the removal of millions of voters in the decadal voter roll revision, due to changes in the exclusion criteria made by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, allegedly despite objections from the other two Election Commissioners. Opposition parties argue that the stricter criteria are designed to preferentially exclude poorer and less educated voters, who are more likely to vote for them. Mr Kumar has also been accused of asking another civil servant to run for the ruling BJP.

A brief recap of the protests can be found here. The government put up barricades around New Delhi, cancelled several trains and flights, suspended internet services to parts of Delhi, and arrested several protestors and even some journalists and opposition leaders. There have been reports of police brutality, such as a complaint that a policeman, one Vivek Bhagat, assaulted a female reporter, and that the All India Students' Association's female President was detained by male policemen. The scale of the protests means that police are having difficulties maintaining control, with one case of a protestor confiscating the keys of a police bus.