Cockroach Janta Party protest LIVE | Abhijeet Dipke thanks Delhi police for switching the lights on

The protestors are continuing at the site in spite of the orders from the police to end the protest, reads a post on Cockroach Janta Party’s official twitter handle. 

Abhijeet Dipke thanks Delhi Police for switching on the lights at the sight of the protest in Jantar Mantar.

- Nikhil M. Babu

As protesters continue to sit at the protest site in Delhi, CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke says the Delhi Police was now not allowing food to enter Jantar Mantar.

He said that Mahatma Gandhi had also fasted and they will also fast.

“But when history is written, you’ll be compared to General Dyre... We again request Delhi Police to allow water and food to enter the area,” he says.

- Nikhil M. Babu

The Cockroach Janata Party protest is continuing under mobile lights.

Abhijeet Dipke demands Delhi Police to switch on the lights in the area.

“If any attack happens on me in this darkness, then the people who switched off the lights will be responsible,” Mr. Dipke said.

- Nikhil M. Babu

Abhijeet Dipke said that Delhi Police is stopping drinking water from entering the protest area. 

Mr. Dipke requested the police to allow water to be brought into the area and asked them if they would take responsibility if people faint due to the heat.

Mr. Dipke said that when Bhagat Singh was protesting, even the British gave them water.

“You have put the entire police at the barricades to stop drinking water. If you had put this much effort, then there wouldn’t have been any paper leaks and 12 people wouldn’t have to commit suicide,” he said.

- Nikhil M. Babu

Abhijeet Dipke has asked the Delhi Police to provide an alternate site for the protest and they would move if such a permission is given.

“But I want to ask, why is Dharmendra Pradhan still continuing as Minister? Is the law only for us? You [Delhi Police] are giving us a warning that your protest time has ended. You should also give a warning to Dharmendra Pradhan that your time in the ministry has ended”, said Mr. Dipke.

He has also made appeals from the stage for more people to come and join the protest.

- Nikhil M. Babu

Abhijeet Dipke has told the crowd who have gathered for the protest that “we will peacefully continue to sit here like this”.

Protestors are limited to a barricaded area in front of the stage.

-Nikhil M. Babu

Police have issued a warning stating that action will be taken against protestors if they do not end the protest.

- Nikhil M. Babu

Delhi Police preparing to arrest Abhijeet Dipke and other protestors from Jantar Mantar, says a post on CJP’s X account. 

Abhijeet Dipke and others continue to protest on the stage.

Meanwhile, protestors have been limited to one end of the Jantar Mantar, around the main stage, by the Delhi Police.

- The Hindu Bureau

CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke said the police was about to detain him and asked protestors to “keep the protest going in a peaceful way”.

Delhi Police has blocked entry to Jantar Mantar, where CJP continues to protest.

Delhi Police is making announcements that the protest permission was only till 5 p.m. and is asking protestors to vacate the protest site.

The announcements come shortly after CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke wrote to the Delhi Police commissioner seeking extension of the protest to tomorrow. Mr. Dipke said the protest would not end until Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns.

- The Hindu Bureau

Delhi Police has denied permission to Cockroach Janta Party to continue its protest at Jantar Mantar, even as party founder Abhijeet Dipke asserting that he will not move from the site until the Education Minister resigns.

Police have asked CJP supporters to vacate the site where a large number of students and others have been demonstrating over alleged examination irregularities, repeated paper leaks and demands for accountability from the government.

Earlier, Mr. Dipke had appealed to supporters to join the ongoing protest at Jantar Mantar at 6 p.m., expressing confidence that police will grant the permission for the extension.

-PTI

Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) appeals to students, parents, and concerned citizens to join the protest at 6 p.m. today in Jantar Mantar, seeking the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan. 

“We won’t leave Jantar Mantar till Dharmendra Pradhan resigns,” CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke says at the movement’s second protest at Jantar Mantar.

Mr. Dipke appeals to the police to extend CJP’s permission at Jantar Mantar and asks to “open channel with the government for talks, with the condition of Dharmendra Pradhan resigning”.

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A formation in India calling itself the ‘Cockroach Janta Party’ has accumulated a following that established political organisations often spend years building. Meme pages, Instagram reels, and semi-ironic political formations began aggregating at remarkable speed, prompting comparisons with Bangladesh and Nepal, where youth-led mobilisations appeared capable of unsettling entrenched political arrangements through digitally synchronised anger.

Increasingly, many are wondering whether this is the future of politics itself: reactive and emotionally charged, and organised less around long-term political structures than around symbolic enemies and collective outrage.

Interpreting the ‘rise’ of the Cockroach Janta Party

Whether politics organised primarily through synchronised outrage can sustain itself beyond moments of emotional intensity is a key issue

The crowds gathered for the CJP protest may see some respite from the punishing heat as IMD forecasts light rain throughout Delhi in the next two hours, according to IMD.

- Aroon Deep

Demonstrators bang plates and spoons as they continue to demand the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan by sloganeering and holding up posters asking for the NTA to be disbanded, and more.

People were carrying plates and spoons at Jantar Mantar to show their concern and double down on their request for Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to resign. Demonstrators were shouting ‘Go Pradhan Go’ while banging their steel plates and spoons.

“The system will only change when our elected representatives’ children go to the same schools as everyone else’s,” activist Sonam Wangchuk says during the protest.

- Aroon Deep

The Cockroach Janta Party’s second protest at Jantar Mantar is underway. The protestors continue to demand the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan.