Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, speaks in a protest march towards Parliament from Jantar Mantar on July 20, 2026 in New Delhi, India. At the end of the talks on Saturday, the CJP announced that the government had agreed to all their demands. They were demanding the resignation of Pradhan, who is also a senior leader in India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, the party of Modi. The Jantar Mantar movement emerged in May in response to a leak of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), the countrywide medical entrance exam. Modi Loses the NarrativeWhile the central demand of the Jantar Mantar movement was the resignation of the education minister, protesters did not hesitate to direct their attention at Modi.