Social activist Sonam Wangchuk was on a hunger strike in 2026 demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged lapses in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), a mandatory nationwide exam for admission to college-level medical courses, when he was forcibly removed from Jantar Mantar during a protest there organized by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). Led by Abhijeet Dipke, the organizers vowed to continue the protest indefinitely until their demands were met. They intensified the campaign by calling on supporters to march to the Parliament of India on July 20.
Large numbers of protesters joined the CJP-led march and moved through central Delhi toward Parliament despite police barricades, crowd-control measures, and restrictions on movement.
One of the protest’s principal demands was that Pradhan take moral responsibility for alleged “paper leaks” connected to the NEET. Days after the 2026 NEET, the results from the exam were invalidated amid reports that questions had been secretly disclosed in advance and that other irregularities had occurred.