13th April, 1919 - Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab, Colonial India

When you got into the bagh, what did you do? I opened fire.

At once? Immediately.

As regards the crowd, what was it doing?

Well, they were holding a meeting. There was a man in the centre of the place on something raised. His arms were moving about. He was evidently addressing. He was absolutely in the centre of the square, as far as I could judge. I should say some 50 or 60 yards from where my troops were drawn up.

The General had admitted that there might have been a good many who had not heard of the proclamation. So Lord Hunter asked, "On the assumption that there was that risk of people being in the crowd who were not aware of the proclamation, did it not occur to you that it was a proper measure to ask the crowd to disperse before you took that step of actually firing"?

No, at the time I did not. I merely felt that my orders had not been obeyed, that Martial Law was flouted, and that it was my duty to fire immediately by rifle.

~ General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer

Cited from British online archives

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May 2026, Modern Day India.

NEET, National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, was cancelled concerning the reported leaks and misconduct. May 12th

"parasites of society" ~ Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant, on hearing on fake law degrees, comparing unemployed youth/activists with cockroaches, May 15th

Abhijeet Dipke, a digital strategist, former member and volunteer of AAP's Social media team, launched a satirical Instagram handle "Cockroach Janta Party" in response to CJI's remark that was originally for unemployed, not for the whole Generation-Z. The name was also a spin-off of the Bharatiya Janata Party. May 16th

The account went viral within days, achieving 22 million+ followers within a week.

For comparison, BJP's official social media handle tops around 9.5 million followers in its up-to-date lifetime.

Pro-government accounts raised concerns regarding the authenticity of the followers, many openly calling it out as a funded and Anti-national way of representation. Some pointed out that these were bought followers; others said followers are mostly "Bangladeshi," "Pakistani," and other countries India has a history of dispute with.

JUNE 2026, Modern Day India.

 Dipke returns from the US; CJP holds its first street protest at Jantar

 Mantar (permission granted only until 5 pm); ~5,000 police deployed; some CJP

 supporters wear cockroach masks; alleged RSS-affiliated counter-protesters attempt

 disruption. June 06th

 Movement shifts to periodic sit-ins and digital campaigning. June 07-19

CJP launches a nationwide campaign from Savitribai Phule Pune University;

 Dipke publishes a five-point "exam manifesto." June 11th

Demonstrators regroup at Jantar Mantar for an extended, indefinite sit-in. Jun 20th

MeitY - Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, blocks CJP's X account citing national-security concerns; Dipke relaunches within minutes as "Cockroach is Back." June 21st

Sonam Wangchuk joins the protest and begins an indefinite hunger strike

 alongside six All India Students' Association (AISA) members, demanding Education

 Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation. June 28th

CJP launches its "Pradhan Go Back" campaign. Jun 30th

July 2026, Modern Day India.

Around mid-July, the founder and organiser, Abhijeet Dipke, announced and urged students nationwide to assemble at Jantar Mantar for the announced march on 20th July, "Chalo Sansad"

July 18th, Sonam was removed forcibly in morning and shifted to Safdarjung Hospital. The lifters and handlers were visibly seen in civil dress, which later authorities justified as a precautionary measure to avoid or provoke Public Riots while carrying out the operation.

While holding that Wangchuk is not in detention and is a free citizen, the court said the activist did not check himself into any facility in view of his “deteriorating condition” on his own and that the government “was within its right to take such action”, relying on the high court’s July 16 order that observed that “life is precious and should be taken care of”.

~ The Indian Express

Mrs. Gitanjali raised allegations against medical authorities, raising concerns over not being allowed to bring phones and denying her the full copies of medical reports.

While hearing her petition to transfer Wangchuk to a private hospital, the Delhi High Court directed Safdarjung Hospital and accompanying authorities to officially place all pathological reports, health bulletins, and sample analyses on record.

On July 19th, Delhi Police issued a formal statement clarifying no application was received or permission granted.

Nuances to keep in check.

• Some culprits of the NEET leak were identified and detained and are under investigation.
• Re-NEET was successfully conducted on 21st June, and the results were announced on 16th July.
• Authorities banned Telegram for a week on account of "precautions" after facing heavy trolling on the internet. The CEO of Telegram himself criticized the action, comparing it to "close the malls because theft happens there," calling out that this doesn't solve the problem; it just shifts the platform.
• The NEET wasn't the only collapse within the past few months.
• CBSE Portal hack and 12th board OSM scandal
• MTET Leak
• SSC GD mismanagements
• CUET UG leak
• Students report a massive difference in scores b/w official result key and the individually calculated scores based on the answer key that was released mere hours ago.
• Many students claimed mixing of OMR sheets and disruptions.
• NTA has been active on x.com, actively addressing the allegations but denies many.
• NTA announced major reforms such as adopting CBT examination for NEET 2027 and years forward. Limiting re-attempts that previously lacked any cap.

20th July 2026, The Black Day.

The planned "Chalo Sansad" march assembled what assumptions say around 50k students nationwide. Delhi Police heavily barricaded routes from Jantar Mantar all the way to Parliament. One of the leading faces, Abhijeet Dipke, was immobilized at Jantar Mantar due to the heavy crowd trapped between heavy barricadings, failing to lead the march.

Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, the other two faces of CJP, waited at Union Minister J.P. Nadda’s residence for over two hours before holding a brief ten-minute meeting. Vijeta Dahiya was wandering instead of leading, later relieved of his position when the internet blew up.

5 metro stations were closed on account of maintaining law and order, closing dozens inside. The networks were jammed over a large area from the protest sites again on account of maintaining law and order.

In the clash between police and protestors, tear gas bombs were used; a heavy baton charge was reported. A significant number of videos surfaced of police constables and RAF officers seen without a badge or battalion number. Many were found in civil dresses, charging with batons, a direct violation of executive laws.

Countless videos surfaced where multiple female protestors were getting beaten up by male police officers. Many testimonies stated that they were sexually assaulted and groped inappropriately by male officers. The Quint backs the statement on similar grounds.

Delhi Police have officially denied any such incident and called out viewers for not believing and dismissed them as rumours and a narrative game.

After this incident, Abhijeet called off the march and expressed his anger over the atrocities Police and authorities displayed. Abhijeet states that Mrs. Gitanjali was dragged hairs though no video or any sort of proof exists, and Delhi Police denies this as an allegation.

Abhijeet announced that the protest is still on and continues to sit in on Jantar Mantar, where on 21st July authorities charged batons but students retaliated heavily this time beating some RAF officers.

On the same 21st, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, and Akhilesh Yadav announced a sit-in infront of PM House, but were detained shortly.

Al Jazeera reporting states plainly that "no footage has emerged of any violence by

the marchers," and that multiple videos instead showed police attacking marchers who

had not yet been provoked. Protester Sahil Singh told reporters he was beaten and that police damaged the protest site without provocation. Read more

Amnesty International India said the crackdown raised "serious questions about whether [police] response met the requirements of legality, necessity, and proportionality" - implicitly rejecting the "protester provocation" framing as justification for the scale of force used. Read more

A pro-government-aligned outlet (Republic World) circulated a video it says shows a protester deploying pepper spray on officers first, framing this as the provocation that triggered baton use, and argued that clips shared by protesters/CJP supporters were "selective" and omitted this moment. Read more

My personal thoughts

Disclaimer: whatever this piece says hereafter is personally opinionated, and it's me expressing what I feel regarding this whole scandal. It might be targeting and feel biased, but that's totally normal even if you don't agree with me.

There are four pillars of democracy; we learn about them in 8th or 9th or 10th grade classes.

1. Legislature - Hon'ble PM stays silent on the questions from the opposition regarding the protest.
2. Executive - Complete silence for the whole sit-in hunger strike and just a formal promise of fast-track investigation for NEET leak by our Hon'ble PM, which should have started way before things went west.
3. Judiciary - CJI refused an urgent hearing on a petition regarding a protest, telling the lawyer, “Please don't waste our time and don't waste yours.”
4. Media - Press Freedom Index 157. Illegalities happened on both ends, but the media saw only one.

A national concern was expressed just a day after the scandal at Parliament by the Prime Minister's x-handle, and 2 days later he decided to speak about less important concerns too.

Is it still justifiable? poking a woman with a baton? And why is the media not covering this? Supreme court isn't finding this concerning enough?

Was slapping legal on account of proportional force? That too by a male officer on a woman? NDTV

Why isn't the national media addressing the allegations from both sides? Why does only one side get waved off?

Why were RAF and Police officers present without badges? It's a violation of the law and police regulations. An officer without a badge loses their authority, let alone baton charge.

Even more concerning, Delhi Police accepted that their officers were present in civil dress. How is it invisible to the media? To the judiciary? How is it not possible that the officers in civil dress were just to stain the students' side? Who's the one to decide who the aggressor was?

• Police controlled networks
• Police were in civil dress attire, making it impossible to distinguish b/w students and them.
• Police lacked nameplates; students couldn't be sure if it was even police or someone in a get-up.

They had Network, they had a face who could pose as a student, and Anonymity.

Many accounts from the night before 20th July filmed videos of the truck loaded with bricks, parked near the protest site with RAF officers around, and the same truck the next day was framed by the media as protestors who drove the truck at that site. Why is this allegation not addressed? How is the media straight up declaring the other side right?

Isn't this the textbook definition of propaganda? Where you serve facts wherever it suits you while ignoring that the other side exists too.

I condone the public property that was damaged, but allegations are also that many of them were planted, and police were seen damaging car windows themselves. Why is this treated as impossible, and why are only students the suspects?

Supreme Court isn't ready to hear this as urgent. If thousands of students showed up in an illegal march at the Parliament of the country in the capital, where both sides are projecting serious allegations. If this is not a concern of urgency to the Supreme Court, then, forbid goodness, I don't know what is. Maybe India's got latent's lemon and chilli.

Detaining students was on the verge of being a limit. But detaining the opposition leader is a concern that makes us question: Is this even a democracy at this point?

Let me know what you think. Glory to India, Jai Hind.