Hitting out at the Modi government, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday (October 10, 2026) claimed that Delhi is witnessing a “war-like deployment”, and said “our GenZ deserves better than an undeclared Emer-GenZ”.
Tharoor, who was in Berlin this week, said he returned to the national capital after 2 a.m. and has rarely seen anything like what Delhi is witnessing now. 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. Mr.
He said the government should provide answers, not lathis; expression, not repression. “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. “Most regressive (as well as repressive) is the suspension of the internet in the heart of the national capital,” the former Union Minister said. Freedom of movement stands completely shackled, 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.
