'July 20 Was Just a Trailer; Millions More Will Come to Delhi': CJP

New Delhi: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Wednesday claimed that its ongoing agitation at Delhi's Jantar Mantar had evolved into the "biggest movement in India's post-independence history," while warning that the protests would intensify if the Centre failed to respond to the students' demands.

Addressing media, CJP spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka said the July 20 protest march was only "a trailer" and asserted that "millions more" people would converge on the national capital if the government continued to ignore the agitation.

"The government really needs to get its act together otherwise the youth of this country is going to take them down very badly," Ranka told ANI.

He also dismissed the government narrative that the protesters were violent, adding that march on July 20 was peaceful. "A narrative is trying to be built that we will not be peaceful, but we are. The march on 20th was peaceful too but there was chaos only at the point where Police unleashed brutality and beat up students. The youth is sitting here peacefully for 31 days because we follow the principles of Gandhi and Ambedkar," he told ANI.

The party said thousands of demonstrators had assembled at Jantar Mantar and reiterated its demand for the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the alleged irregularities in the NEET examination.

Meanwhile, security remained heightened across key areas of the capital, with barricades and heavy police deployment around Parliament House, Rafi Marg and adjoining locations. The central government has also deployed 20 more CRPF companies, in addition to the existing 30, to bolster security in the national capital.