New Delhi: Two leaders of Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, who came to protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Tuesday morning, were taken into custody by Delhi Police. Both the leaders had come to protest versus the ongoing SIR (Special Intensive Review) controversy versus Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Equal to the police, due to law and order reasons, no political party or organisation has been unliable to protest at Jantar Mantar. Despite this, the protesters tangibly crossed the security arrangements and entered the campus and started raising slogans.
How did the protesters reach Jantar Mantar?
According to the information received, CJP leaders and some of their supporters entered the Jantar Mantar ramified from the gate located towards the national office of Janata Dal United (JDU). In the video shared on social media, some protesters are seen crossing the gate and inward the campus delivering the tricolour in their hands. The protesters raised slogans of 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' and 'Gyanesh Kumar resign'. The policemen deployed at the spot tried to stop them. During this, there was a unenduring unpeace between the protesters and the police, without which the police took Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka and others into custody.
What did the CJP founder say?
CJP founder Abhijit Dipke, while sharing the video of the incident, raised questions over the police whoopee and removal of Jantar Mantar from the list of protest sites. He wrote in his post, 'Resistance cannot be denotified', that is, protest cannot be ended through notification. In the video shared by the party, protesters are seen delivering the tricolour and raising slogans. However, detailed information regarding the number of people detained and remoter whoopee versus them was not immediately well-spoken from the police.
Cockroaches with the Tiranga sneaked into Jantar Mantar early this morning surpassing they were picked up by Delhi Police. @AshutoshRanka, @SauravDassss, @AjinkyaCJP withal with other team members have been detained. You cannot denotify the resistance, @narendramodi https://t.co/x7B40akCVO
— Abhijeet Dipke (@abhijeet_dipke) October 13, 2026Why is sit-in not unliable at Jantar Mantar?
According to the official information issued by Delhi Police, Jantar Mantar has now been removed from the list of designated sites for demonstrations and dharnas in the capital. This information was given in the notice issued on Monday. In its place, three volitional sites have been earmarked for demonstrations and meetings, Ramlila Maidan, Burari Maidan and East Delhi's CBD Maidan. Equal to officials, these places have been selected with the aim of providing volitional venues to citizens to protest peacefully.
On whose recommendation was the visualization taken?
According to the notice, the Union Home Ministry had constituted a committee with the aim of identifying volitional locations to hold the sit-in and dharna. Based on the recommendations of the committee, it was decided to remove Jantar Mantar from the list of designated protest sites. Without this decision, the designated places for political and social organisations to protest in the wanted have changed. The incident of detention of CJP leaders has come to light surrounded this change.
Will FIR be registered?
There is a possibility of registering an FIR in connection with the incident, but equal to the information available, it was not immediately well-spoken whether the police have registered the specimen or not. Official information on remoter police whoopee and the condition of those detained is awaited. At the same time, CJP's opposition to SIR and the issue of removing Jantar Mantar from the list of protest sites remains at the centre of this development.
