A day after Centre denotified Jantar Mantar as a protest site, a bunch of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) volunteers led by its leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das landed at the site early on Tuesday morning.
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke posted a video of a flash protest at Jantar Mantar where CJP volunteers were seen climbing an iron gate and a police barricade to reach Jantar Mantar to protest. In the video of the protest, CJP leader Ranka and Das alongwith a few volunteers can be seen jumping a gate with flags in their hands and entering the area to stage a protest. The group raised slogans as they were chased by the police who were stationed there. The protesters had a little run in with cops who tried to stop them while they raised Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Inquilab Zindabaad slogans. The protesters were later detained and taken away. Thousands of protesters have been detained over Saturday and Sunday as Capital streets witnessed scenes of protests and crackdown.
Delhi Police has since October 10 fortified Jantar Mantar and has not allowed protesters to enter the area. The CJP had given a protest call at Jantar Mantar on October 10. It’s top leader Dipke, Das and Ranka were detained from inside their flight as they landed in Delhi on October 10 morning.
The protesters were later detained by the Delhi Police, Dipke said in his post. “You cannot denotify the resistance,” a defiant Dipke posted challenging the Centre’s order to denotify Jantar Mantar as a protest site.
