Govt betrayed Gen Z: CJP announces fresh protest march in Delhi on September 5

A month after its protest at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar spread across India like wildfire, the Cockroach Janta Party on Monday announced a youth protest march on September 5 from India Gate to the New Delhi Police Headquarters, accusing the Centre of failing to fulfil its commitments that led to the withdrawal of the students' movement on July 25.

Taking to X, CJP spokesperson Saurav Das described the march as peaceful and warned that they "will not accept this vishwasghaat (betrayal) with Gen Z, the young protesters, and the families of those who died."

Das also points out that their party was not confident if the Narendra Modi government intended to keep the promises kept to the student protesters made on July 25.

"The National Working Committee expressed serious doubts over whether the Government of India intends to honour its commitments made to the young generation on July 25. Therefore, a peaceful protest march is called for which will start at the India Gate all the way till the new Delhi Police Headquarters. The protest will be led by the families of the NEET students who died by suicide and victims of July 20 police brutality," he said.

The CJP’s agitation had started at Jantar Mantar on June 20 over irregularities in the examination system and the NEET-UG paper leak, before spreading to other parts of the country. On July 20, a march to Parliament led by the outfit turned chaotic and violent after police cracked down on protesters, leaving scores injured.

The agitation ended on July 25 after Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as the Union Education Minister and the government, after talks with CJP representatives, accepted its other demands. These included compensation for the families of NEET aspirants who died by suicide and the withdrawal of FIRs against protesters. Both sides had also agreed to continue discussions on wider examination reforms.

CJP representatives Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka had announced the withdrawal of the protest at a joint press conference with Union ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh. They had said the agitation was being called off in “good faith” on the understanding that the agreed terms would be implemented within the stipulated timeline.

The dispute later reached the Supreme Court, where on August 18 the CJP accused the Centre of resisting efforts to facilitate the quashing of FIRs against students and protesters. At that point, it had warned that if there was no concrete progress on the July 25 commitments, fresh nationwide action could follow.

In its latest statement, the CJP also said, “The families who lost their children will walk at the front. Victims of police brutality will walk beside them. Behind them will walk a generation demanding only one thing from its government: Keep your word.”

The CJP has now renewed its allegations that the Centre has not honoured the July 25 understanding, particularly on withdrawing FIRs, shielding protesters from punitive action and issuing a written assurance,