CJP Protest highlights: Meeting with JP Nadda ‘waste of time,’ CJP's Ashutosh Ranka says; 70 detained

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CJP Protest LIVE: Anurag Kashyap slammed the Delhi Police for allegedly hitting protesters during the CJP's Parliament march on Monday.

Anurag Kashyap, on Instagram, said he "never realised that wearing the uniform meant selling your soul," before questioning whether there was "even a single police officer in this country" willing to refuse an order on the grounds that it was wrong.

CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke said after visiting injured protestors at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital that one girl is critically injured after Monday's lathi charge.

"A girl is in critical condition at RML after being injured during the brutal lathi-charge," he wrote on X. "Why did the govt unleash such brutal force against the youth?"

There were nearly 300 people present in and around Jantar Mantar early Monday morning. A majority of the protesters remained in front of the stage, which was reclaimed by them in the evening after their initial sit-in near the Kerala House.

The area around the stage remained dark as the protesters alleged that the authorities disconnected the power supply to the lights at the protest site. Two to three functional streetlights, which are nearly 150-200 feet away from the stage, were the only source of light.

Delhi Police's Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Surendra Kumar and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Praveen Tripathi were at the Jantar Mantar protest site along with some police personnel early Monday morning. Some protesters surrounded them and began questioning them on Monday’s police action on protesters.

The officials chose to remain silent and avoided any discussion with them. After a while, the senior officers left the area.

CJP's Ashutosh Ranka said that party's Chief Spokesperson, Sourav Das, is visiting injured protestors admitted at Ram Manohar Lohiya hospital. “We are trying to take care of everyone,” he said, adding that CJP's legal and medical team will provide updates on the injured.

"The meeting turned out to be useless," CJP spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka told HT late on Sunday night about the meeting with Minister of Health and Family Welfare of India earlier.

"No response has come from them," Ranka said. "Next time, we will not talk to them till they come to the protest site. If they do not value our time, we also don't value theirs."

Around 10.30pm, not many people were seen in the areas around the India Gate, where 40-50 security personnel were still seen standing on the footpaths around the C-Hexagon, especially near the Kartavya Path starting point that was found completely barricaded. People in small groups were seen standing under trees at multiple places on the footpath along the Ashoka Road, as rain started in the central Delhi areas. A couple of the groups were seen speaking to media persons on the footpath.

Further on the Ashoka Road and Raisina Road, security personnel’s presence was seen around the Press Club of India, outside the Central Secretariat Metro station, and on the footpaths outside the Rail Bhawan and Shastri Bhawan. The roads leading to the Parliament were all barricaded. The anti-riots vehicles, police buses and vans and other four-wheelers and two-wheelers, were found stationed on the roads. However, except for some people standing on the bus stops, no signs of protesters were seen on the roads.

The situation on other roads leading to Parliament and Jantar Mantar was similar. On the Connaught Place circle, a police vehicle (white Mahindra Scorpio) with a beacon a top was found standing damaged near the Regal Cinema. The windshield and windowpanes of the vehicle were damaged in the alleged stone pelting. Some people were seen standing around the vehicle, taking videos and photographs of the damaged police vehicle while no security personnel were present around.

The road to Jantar Mantar through Tolstoy Road and Ashoka Road were also barricaded and police personnel present there were only allowing media persons to walk towards the protest venue, which was partially lit. Hundreds of protesters gathered around the stage, shouting slogans like “We want justice”, “Vande Mataram” and “Inquilab Zindabad”. Many of them were using their phones torch to keep the area lit. None of them moved even when the second spell of rain began around 11.30pm.

CJP Protest LIVE: Protesters have returned to the stage which was dismantled by Delhi police a few hours ago. CJP’s Ashutosh Ranka told protesters that they will stay here till the Education Minister resigns.

CJP Protest LIVE: Delhi Police said that the protesters on Monday displayed “unruly, aggressive and violent behaviour” and deliberately "violated the prohibitory orders in force".

“The protesters attacked police personnel with stones and other objects, attempted to breach police barricades, vandalised police and other government vehicles, damaged public property, and resorted to large-scale violence, posing a serious threat to public order, the security arrangements in place, and the safety of police personnel performing their lawful duties,” the police said.

CJP Protest LIVE: Delhi Police' statement on CJP's protest today -

"During today's protest by CJP in the New Delhi area, the protesters displayed unruly, aggressive and violent behaviour. Despite repeated warnings and lawful directions issued by the police, they refused to disperse and deliberately violated the prohibitory orders in force. The protesters attacked police personnel with stones and other objects, attempted to breach police barricades, vandalised police and other government vehicles, damaged public property, and resorted to large-scale violence, posing a serious threat to public order, the security arrangements in place, and the safety of police personnel performing their lawful duties.

As a result, more than 118 police personnel sustained injuries, including senior officers of the ranks of Special Commissioner of Police, Joint Commissioner of Police, Additional Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police and Assistant Commissioner of Police, besides several women police personnel . During the scuffle, around 60 protesters were also reported to get injured.

The medico-legal examination (MLC) of the remaining injured police personnel is underway.

The violent mob also caused extensive damage to public property. Around 15 to 20 government vehicles, along with other government property, were vandalised during the incident.

Around 70 protesters have been detained. Appropriate legal action is being initiated, and an FIR is being registered under the relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and other applicable laws for rioting, assault on public servants, damage to public property and other offences committed during the protest.

Delhi Police remains committed to maintaining public order and ensuring the safety and security of all citizens. Strict action will be taken against all persons found involved in unlawful and violent activities, in accordance with law."

CJP Protest LIVE: “India was brutally assaulted today,” the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) said on Monday evening, following a day of police brutality on students marching towards the Parliament.

The 'Chalo Sansad' march, organised to protest examination irregularities and demand the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, met a wall of heavily deployed security personnel as protesters attempted to reach Parliament on the opening day of the monsoon session.

It began as a peaceful march carrying flowers for police personnel, in keeping with the CJP's appeal for a peaceful demonstration. By late afternoon, the main protest stage at Jantar Mantar had been entirely dismantled by the cops.

Scattered among the debris lay some portraits, some books, even an idol, as seen in a picture shared by the CJP. Read more.

CJP Protest LIVE: In a post on X, Mahua Moitra said, ““Kitne aadmi the?” - you showed them Gen Z ! You don’t need leaders. You can bring govt to its knees, seek accountability & get Education Minister to resign simply by non violent street protest . Their brutality will be their end.”

CJP Protest LIVE: A few hundred protesters have again returned at Jantar Mantar. Police has undertaken taken multiple rounds of lathi charge to clear the area but the protesters intend to continue.

CJP Protest LIVE: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant's remark from May that used the words “cockroaches” and “parasites” for some sections of jobless youth was back in focus on Monday after Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut paid thanks to the CJI for the protest movement led by Cockroach Janta Party, a satirical outfit formed as a reaction to his comment.

“Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, my lord Suryakant ji. The credit for today's great movement goes to just this one person! For bringing the dead of the country back to life,” Raut posted on X.

Thousands of CJP supporters were stopped by security forces while attempting to march towards Parliament on the opening day of the Monsoon Session. The government did later speak to the leaders of the CJP, though a deadlock persisted over the demand to sack education minister Dharmendra Pradhan for the NEET-UG paper leak and other issues. Read here.

CJP Protest LIVE: A candlelight march was held in Panaji in Goa on Monday in support of the Cockroach Janta Party's stir in the national capital.

The participants, under the banner of NGO Uzvad, demanded the resignation of Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for alleged irregularities in the education sector and exam paper leaks.

The candlelight march was held from Miramar beach to Azad Maidan here for "better India and better future of youth", those who took part said. (PTI)

CJP Protest LIVE: Joint Commissioner of Police (Joint CP) of the Central Range, Madhur Verma, while talking about the CJP protest says, "There was an unlawful assembly that had to be dealt with; there were some incidents of stone-pelting, and the Delhi Police have detained some protesters. Appropriate action is being taken".

CJP Protest LIVE: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka says, "I think lakhs and lakhs of Indian youth showed up in Delhi today, which means that the youth of this country is pretty much done with this government. We thank them for coming in such large numbers and standing with us, fighting for the cause. At the same time, the visuals we are seeing from across Delhi involving the Delhi Police are deeply concerning. The kind of brutality unleashed by the Delhi Police today has no words. We are still trying to assess the extent of the casualties suffered by our protesters, and we are trying to reach out to them to provide the best legal and medical aid."

CJP Protest LIVE: Hours after the Jantar Mantar protest site was cleared by police, volunteers have started coming there again with refreshments, water, ORS, band aids etc.

-Danita Yadav from ground.

CJP Protest LIVE: In a post on X, Rahul Gandhi said, "Peaceful protest is an inviolable and fundamental right.

Every police officer and government employee blindly following orders to attack India's innocent students should keep this in mind:

The Constitution is your master.

Power does not last forever.

Accountability will certainly be enforced."

CJP Protest LIVE: According to Sonam Wangchuk's heath bulletin, his vitals are stable but his blood sugar level is low.

CJP Protest LIVE: CJP's Abhijeet Dipke sarcastically praising the police at Jantar Mantar, telling them: "Well done, sir, you did really well; used your batons very well!'

CJP Protest LIVE: CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke briefly faints during sit-in at Jantar Mantar, escorted away by fellow protesters.