Actor-activist Prakash Raj on Monday (October 19, 2026) said the protest over alleged SIR irregularities was snowballing into a nationwide movement, with the SKM joining the agitation.
“Despite the cannons, despite the bulldozers, despite stopping them, they won the battle, and they just can’t keep quiet anymore. Mr. Mr. “In this country, we have a Constitution, we have our voting rights, and [Mahatma] Gandhi has taught us how to fight. This will be a peaceful protest on the road.
Raj said he had attended a meeting of around 200 organisations in Delhi , where the Samyukt Kisan Morcha announced its decision to join the protest. Recalling the farmers’ agitation against the three farm laws introduced by the Narendra Modi government, he said the SKM had called on farmers’ organisations to join the protest on October 23.
So they said, ‘We are with the students. It’s not just the students’ cause, it is a fight of the country,” he said. Raj said the movement would grow bigger than the students’ protest at Jantar Mantar and blamed the government for the growing agitation. He said the participation of farmers, jawans, labour unions and Dalit organisations would send a clear message to the ruling regime that the country was coming together to defend voting rights. “It is not just a political issue, it is the dignity of a voter, our right to vote, and that is where we are fighting,” he said. If these people [the central government] continue not to listen to us and refuse to engage in dialogue, we will vote them out and bring them down,” he said.
