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‘Stay home, share your live location’: How Mumbai Police tried to keep students off CJP protests | Mumbai News

‘Stay home, share your live location’: How Mumbai Police tried to keep students off CJP protests | Mumbai News

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4 min readMumbaiUpdated: Jul 23, 2026 07:17 AM IST Calls asking protestors to stay home, officers showing up at their houses, requests to share live location: police used all three to keep those already booked in FIRs linked to the Cockroach Janta Party protests from returning to the streets, according to accounts from multiple protestors and police officials. One protester posted screenshots on social media of a WhatsApp conversation in which a senior inspector from Versova police station asked her to stay home and “send her live location and keep it on” to prove she had. Contacted about the exchange, the inspector, Deepshika Vare, declined to comment. Another officer at the station said an FIR had been registered against the protester, and that she had not been detained. Others said police visited their homes directly. “While they did not visit my residence, many protesters were youngsters who had not told their families about it. By sending policemen to their houses, it was also a way of informing their families and discouraging them from joining the …

Anna Hazare writes to PM Narendra Modi, says Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation will not cause the govt to fall | Delhi News

Anna Hazare writes to PM Narendra Modi, says Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation will not cause the govt to fall | Delhi News

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3 min readJul 23, 2026 02:03 AM IST Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare, who went on a historic hunger strike at the same venue more than 15 years ago, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday saying “the news of…violence and police action…is extremely painful”, and that the resentment of the protesters must be viewed “not as a law and order problem, but as the agony and expectations of society”. If Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is asked to resign, “it will not cause the government to fall; rather, it will…make its functioning more accountable and effective”, Hazare said. He requested the government to “listen to [the protesters] patiently, create an atmosphere of trust, and find solutions through positive dialogue”. MANOJ MORE ================= Vijeta Dahiya during Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike at Jantar Mantar. (Express) Sacked CJP spokesperson says ‘shocked’ by action Vijeta Dahiya, the sacked former spokesperson of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) told The Indian Express on Wednesday that he was “shocked” by the decision taken by the leadership of the activist platform. “[When CJP leaders …

Chaos, frustration among commuters as 16 key Metro stations around Jantar Mantar shut | Delhi News

Chaos, frustration among commuters as 16 key Metro stations around Jantar Mantar shut | Delhi News

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3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jul 23, 2026 02:07 AM IST Chaos unfolded across Metro stations in Central Delhi as the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) shut down passenger access to 16 key stations surrounding Jantar Mantar — leaving thousands of daily commuters stranded. Just over an hour after the announcement, Central Secretariat Metro station saw a sprawling crowd of bewildered and frustrated passengers pressed against the closed exit turnstiles. Many chanted slogans like “Modi teri tanashahi nahi chalegi”. Announcements played on loop at stations — which saw heavy deployment of security personnel — to inform the swelling crowd that while interchange facilities were open, all entry and exit gates had been shut until further notice. The disruption thus turned a regular journey, for thousands of commuters, into an ordeal. “It was a regular Wednesday … I was headed towards Central Secretariat station. The notification about the station being shut arrived too late for me to prepare for alternative modes of commute,” said Aastha (25), a clinical psychology trainee. “We got drained while trying to find …

How Modi faces his first broad-based protest ever — not one by specific interest groups | Political Pulse News

How Modi faces his first broad-based protest ever — not one by specific interest groups | Political Pulse News

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With crowds sustaining at Jantar Mantar a day after the police crackdown on the Cockroach Janta Party’s Parliament march on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces for the first time a broad-based protest movement – something different from protests by specific interest groups that he has faced till now, mostly as Prime Minister but also once from Narmada Bachao Andolan activists as Chief Minister of Gujarat. On Tuesday afternoon, the Jantar Mantar protest site – having multiple barricades and large numbers of police personnel from the Delhi Police and Rapid Action Force – again saw a packed crowd. There were young people with bandages – indicating that they decided to return a day after the clashes with the police – and many who decided to come, from Delhi as well as outside, on Tuesday after they saw visuals of the violence during the Parliament march. And the profile of the protesters is mixed and diverse – anglicised youngsters, lower middle class young people, those from Delhi and those from outside, and also parents of students …

Hanumankind attends CJP’s Jantar Mantar protest as Indian rap community backs NEET stir | Delhi News

Hanumankind attends CJP’s Jantar Mantar protest as Indian rap community backs NEET stir | Delhi News

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4 min readNew DelhiJul 22, 2026 12:40 AM IST Bengaluru-based global rap star Sooraj Cherukat, better known as Hanumankind, who has performed at some of the world’s biggest music stages including Coachella and New York’s Nassau Coliseum, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the Indian diaspora in 2024, marched alongside students and civil society groups on Monday in New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, demanding Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over the NEET paper leak controversy and alleged irregularities in higher education. Wearing a blue India cricket jersey, a black mask and a hat, Hanumankind, one of India’s most well-known and internationally visible rappers at this point, initially blended into the crowd until protesters recognised him. Videos circulating on social media show the rapper pausing to interact with several of them during the Cockroach Janata Party’s (CJP) attempt to march to the Parliament on Monday. He also posted photos and videos of the police lathi charge unleashed upon protesters on his Instagram and wrote in a story, “There’s no justification for this kind of …