Police Use Batons and Tear Gas Against Student Protesters Near Indian Parliament

Two dispersals in eight days mark an escalation in demonstrations over exam leaks that began as online satire after a Supreme Court justice compared unemployed youth to cockroaches.

New Delhi police deployed batons and tear gas on July 20 to break up a march by the Cockroach Janta Party toward the national legislature, the second use of force against the group in eight days. Demonstrators gathered to demand the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, citing systemic failures in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test that have disrupted medical admissions for millions of students. The physical confrontation follows a similar dispersal on July 12 when officers baton-charged thousands of protesters assembling near parliament, establishing a pattern of kinetic enforcement at the capital’s security perimeter [5][1].

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