CJP Protest Live: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a social media-driven movement founded by Boston University graduate and digital strategist Abhijeet Dipke, is all set to hold a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar today. The protest was announced by the party through its X handle. The participants of the protest are demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Ahead of the demonstration, founder Abhijeet Dipke said he was returning to India to participate in the event leaving ‘his fate to hands of the constitution.’
On Friday, the Delhi High Court declined to grant an urgent hearing on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking preventive, regulatory and crowd-control measures in connection with the proposed protest.
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Abhijeet Dipke created the website and social media accounts of ‘Cockroach Janta Party’ a day after the CJI’s remarks, referring to certain youths as cockroaches, on May 15. Within days CJP’s Instagram page had amassed more than millions of followers, far surpassing the 8.8 million followers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the platform.
CJP Protest Today Live: Cockroach Janta Party said on Saturday that its ‘single point agenda’ is demanding Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation.
CJP Protest Today Live: Hundreds of people, mostly young participants, attended the demonstration, many wearing cockroach masks and carrying flowers.
Several school students were also present at the protest along with their parents. Most of those gathered were school and college students, as well as young professionals.
CJP Protest Today Live: 59-year-old activist from Ladakh Sonam Wangchuk will join the CJP protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi soon, party founder Abhijeet Dipke said at the protest site.
CJP Protest Today Live: “My friends, this is a long struggle. It has been a month since we started demanding Pradhan’s resignation on social media, but these individuals are so shameless that instead of taking action, they have been focused on other distractions, like hacking our accounts and getting our posts deleted. You may be able to delete our posts, but you cannot erase us from this space,” Dipke reportedly told the crowd.
CJP Protest Today Live: A massive crowd gathered at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to join the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)’s protest demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
CJP Protest Today Live: Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), arrived in Delhi on Saturday ahead of a planned demonstration at Jantar Mantar, and urged supporters to maintain discipline and ensure that the protest remains peaceful.
CJP Protest Today Live: According to the reports, police have increased security outside the residence of Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), in the Waluj MIDC area of Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
CJP Protest Today Live: TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose extended support to the founder of the CJP movement. She wrote on X: “All the best. And all support . Fight the good fight!”
CJP Protest Today Live: Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party, launched the protest after arriving at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.
CJP Protest Today Live: Ahead of the protest, several people gathered to raise slogans like “Dharmendra Pradhan, resign!”. “We elected the Education Minister and sent him there; he gets his salary from our taxes! During his tenure, the future of millions of youth is shrouded in darkness,” the CJP said in a post on X.
धर्मेंद्र प्रधान इस्तीफ़ा दो!
शिक्षा मंत्री को हमने चुन कर भेजा है, हमारे टैक्स से उनको तनख्वाह मिलती है!
उनके शासन काल में करोड़ों युवाओं का भविष्य अंधकार में है।
cockroach आ रहे हैं, धर्मेंद्र प्रधान जा रहे हैं! #cjpprotest pic.twitter.com/LYcOUY7Shc
— Cockroach is Back (@Cockroachisback) June 6, 2026
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