Sarthak Sidhant, one of the three known CBSE-OSM whistleblowers, has urged "Cockroach Janta Party" founder Abhijeet Dipke to ensure that any student movement is rooted in a genuine cause rather than what he described as “internet attention”. He stressed that student-led campaigns should focus on turning public outrage into meaningful action, reported HT. "Like I did some investigation, Nisarg did some investigation - we put it out to help students," he told Hindustan Times, drawing a distinction between activism based on research and efforts driven primarily by social media trends. Sidhant also referred to Vedant Shrivastava while making his remarks.Teenagers Sidhant, Vedant and “ethical hacker” Nisarga Adhikary emerged as prominent voices in highlighting concerns over CBSE's On-Screen Marking (OSM) evaluation system after spotting discrepancies in Class 12 marksheets. They later became the face of a wider student backlash over this year's examination controversies, including the now-cancelled NEET-UG 2026 exam, which is scheduled for a June 21 re-test following a paper leak.Sidhant cautioned against restricting activism to online platforms. While acknowledging that "internet activism is okay", he argued that "sitting on their back seats and not doing anything is not". He added that he would not support a movement that is focused solely on gaining attention online.“Yes, internet activism is okay. What I did, what Nisarg did, what Vedant did was internet activism in general. But I would say they are sitting on their back seats and if they're not doing anything, they're not actively participating in anything, that is a bad thing,” Sidhant told HT.CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke, who is pursuing higher education in the United States, is expected to arrive in Delhi on June 6 and seek permission for a protest at Jantar Mantar. The party has said climate activist Sonam Wangchuk will also join the proposed demonstration.The CJP traces its origins to a controversy sparked by remarks made by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant last month, when he referred to certain individuals as "cockroaches" and "parasites" during a court hearing.The remarks triggered a backlash on social media, with CJP founder Dipke and his supporters appropriating the term "cockroach" as a political symbol and launching what began as an online youth movement before evolving into an organised campaign. Who is Sarthak Sidhant?Sarthak Sidhant is a Class 12 student from Ranchi, Jharkhand, who came into public view after publishing a detailed blog analysing the CBSE's On-Screen Marking (OSM) system and related tender documents.After appearing for his Class 12 board examinations, Sarthak sought scanned copies of his answer sheets and noticed discrepancies in the marks awarded. As concerns grew among students regarding possible errors and the transparency of the digital evaluation process, he began examining the issue more closely.His work has primarily focused on comparing different versions of CBSE's procurement and tender documents available on public platforms. Sidhant has claimed that he identified several changes across successive rounds of bidding. According to him, modifications were made to eligibility criteria, performance clauses and certification requirements, raising questions about the tendering process.His findings are based on official records available on public procurement portals and are supported by technical analysis conducted with the assistance of researchers and journalists.Sidhant has also appeared before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, where he presented his findings on the OSM system and raised concerns related to evaluation practices and tendering procedures.CJP attacks govt The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) on Thursday said the reported exposure of JEE (Advanced) 2026 candidate data due to a cloud storage configuration issue in the results portal showed how "incompetent" people were running the country's education system and digital infrastructure.The leaders of the campaign, which began on social media and went on to take a life of its own, also appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately sack Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, saying he had failed to ensure accountability in the education sector.CJP spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka, an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and the London School of Economics who was appointed the campaign's spokesperson on Wednesday, said the exposure of candidate information reflected the poor state of cybersecurity safeguards."Names, phone numbers and images of nearly two lakh students got exposed. In a country that has produced techies leading top technology companies across the world, the education minister and the government are so incompetent that they are unable to run basic systems securely," Ranka said."The education minister is totally incompetent. He has run the education system into the ground. We appeal to the Prime Minister to sack Dharmendra Pradhan immediately. This is about the future of our students and a lot is at stake," he added.On Tuesday, IIT Roorkee acknowledged a cloud storage configuration issue linked to the JEE (Advanced) 2026 results portal after a teenage cybersecurity researcher reported that candidate records and admit-card documents were accessible without authentication.The institute said corrective action was being taken on priority and maintained that the exposed data was in read-only mode, ruling out any possibility of alteration of records.The press conference came a day after the outfit held its first media interaction at the Constitution Club of India, where it said it was open to dialogue with both the government and the Opposition over its demands while continuing to seek Pradhan's resignation.