About 2 months ago, a Supreme court judge called the students of India cockroaches, and someone made a website and social media handles named Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), janta meaning public. This started as a joke and they even had a manifesto. Then soon, some people starting blaming the Indian Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, for some exam paper leaks, leading to postponing some exams, major one of them being NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test which is an entrance exam for medical institutes in India). This is a major exam, a lot of parents take huge loans for their kids, and kids remain under extreme pressure throughout the year. And this postponing lead to 20 students committing suicide.
Core members of CJP took this matter in their hands and started protesting online and demanding the resignation of the education minister, when nobody listened, and none of the major news outlets in India covered this, they decided to hold a protest in New Delhi at Jantar Mantar, which is common protest site. They took proper permissions and held the protest. Soon, they were joined by a famous Indian scientist named Sonam Wangchuk. He then decided to go on an indefinite hunger strike until the government takes appropriate actions. He sat there for more than 18 days, hungry. Nobody from the government came to even talk to him, the mainstream media kept calling this protest "anti-national". Around 14th or 15th July, they decided they will march from Jantar Mantar to the Parliament on 20th July (today). On 18th July, police came in civil dress and forcefully took Sonam Wangchuk to a hospital (we haven't seen him yet, although his wife says he is fine). People were even more inspired and thousands of students came to Delhi.
Police blocked off a lot of places, tried to seal the exits of metro stations (underground local train stations). People started marching and they did lathi charge. Mainstream media is showing that more than 50+ policemen are injured and the protest got violent, but people on actual site say that hundreds of students got beaten up, kids got beaten up, people were bleeding, fainting, police were abusing women.
Mobile internet services were stopped in the area.
This guy in the above video is calling them out saying something like, "Hit me, hit me, just kill me."
The police were throwing stones at students, and the mainstream media is showing that students did that.
The forces in the parliament were preparing for this when things got out of hand. Yes, they were willing to shoot the students.
Most of these videos are taken from Reddit and Instagram. I had more but they are more just interviews and mostly in Hindi.
I have uploaded these videos to catbox moe. If anyone has any problem playing these, let me know, I will post mirrors in the comments.
If you want to look up more about this protest, please do not rely on Indian news outlets, they are blatantly lying as they have been bought by the government.
Here are some news sources that you might need to consider reading:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/world/asia/india-protest-cjp-cockroach-jantar-mantar.html
- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedj9j911p8o
- https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/cjp-jantar-mantar-delhi-protest-takes-over-internet-here-is-what-social-media-says-about-the-sansad-chalo-march-by-cockroach-janta-party-viral-article-155140914
