The Cockroach Janta Party-led protest in JuneāJuly 2026 at Delhiās Jantar Mantar protest grounds sought the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over controversies surrounding qualifying examinations for medical studies as well as state board examinations. A large number of supporters, mainly young people and students, gathered at the site over many weeks to demand Pradhanās resignation, calling on him to take moral responsibility for āpaper leaksā related to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to medical courses.
About 2 million students appear for the exam every year, competing for only about 130,000 seats. Some students invest in years of intense preparation for the exam. Days after the NEET 2026 was conducted, the results from the exam were invalidated as reports swirled that questions from the exam had been secretly divulged to some students before the exam and that other irregularities had been identified. With grueling preparation wasted and prospects of qualification dashed, more than 20 NEET students died by suicide in the following weeks, which became a major focus of the CJP protest.
In October 2026 the CJP called for a protest in Delhi over alleged lapses in the Election Commission of Indiaās review of electoral rolls, which provisionally struck off 130 million people from draft voter lists nationwide. The leaders of the CJP were preemptively detained by the police and severe restrictions were put in place to prevent the protests from reaching the Jantar Mantar protest grounds. Scores of journalists, lawyers, members of Parliament, and protestors were detained. On October 12 Jantar Mantar was removed from the list of designated protest sites by the administration and alternative sites were notifiedāfarther away from central Delhi.