India’s ‘wind’ protest movement halts police violence | Objections

The group’s leaders said they will continue campaigning but will not hold another march in New Delhi.

Leaders of India’s “cockroach movement” have said they will continue anti-government protests but have called off mass rallies on the streets of New Delhi out of concern for the safety of their supporters after police responded with brutality when more than 10,000 people tried to march on parliament.

“We will not march again because the police have injured the youth again,” Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke said at a press conference on Tuesday.

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He said 150 protesters were injured by police who fired tear gas and beat protesters with batons and batons during Monday’s march.

The group will continue to call for the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who they said should be held accountable for academic misconduct.

The group appeared after a leakage of exam papers This forced 2.2 million prospective doctors to retake the exam, resulting in at least 12 student suicides. The CJP is demanding 10 million ($104,000) in compensation for each family of students who committed suicide after the leak.

“We will not stop. Pradhan should be sacked,” CJP’s Ashutosh Ranka said.

Opposition leaders Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka along with members of their Indian National Congress party, staged a protest outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence, videos shared by the party on Tuesday showed.

“We went to PM Modi’s house to seek answers from him about the brutality he did to young school children yesterday,” ⁠Rahul Gandhi wrote on X.

The rights group Amnesty International said in a statement late Monday that the police action showed “how much dissent is suppressed in India.”

“They beat us black and blue, and destroyed our protest site,” Sahil Singh, a protester from northern Uttar Pradesh, told Reuters. “We want a case to be filed and the resignation of Pradhan.”

The number of protesters on Monday was larger than expected, partly because of the anger that has spread after 59-year-old soldier Sonam Wangchuk, who has been on a three-week hunger strike in collaboration with the CJP, was arrested by police and involuntarily hospitalized.

The Delhi High Court ruled on Tuesday that Wangchuk could be transferred from a government hospital to a private hospital after his wife appealed to the court, saying he was being held in “unlawful detention”, legal website Bar and Bench reported.

About 200 protesters gathered at the CJP’s protest site at Jantar Mantar in central New Delhi on Tuesday morning, chanting slogans against the cyclone.

Army personnel continued to patrol the central areas of the Indian capital, and barricades were blocking people’s movement.

Delhi police said around 180 people – 60 protesters and 118 security personnel and police – were injured in Monday’s clashes. The police also said that 70 people who are protesting have been detained and will follow the law.

Several videos of Monday’s clashes showed police attacking protesters, but there were no images of the violence the marchers carried out.

CJP and his supporters are still hopeful that they will change the situation. An official said on Monday that the minister promised that the government would consider their demands.

On Tuesday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said: “I think that when negotiations are done properly, the atmosphere should not be disturbed.”

CJP’s campaign started online with memes mocking the government, and gathered millions of followers on social media. It has since become a movement capable of bringing thousands of people to the streets, as Monday’s march demonstrated.

After the chief justice of the Supreme Court of India compared some unemployed youth to “cockroaches”the protesters adopted the insult as the name of their group.