The Cockroach Janta Party, which began as a satirical political campaign, launched a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Saturday to demand the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged mismanagement in the conduct of competitive exams.The protest began after the campaign’s founder Abhijeet Dipke arrived in the national capital from the United States.Dipke said that the only objective of the protest was to demand Pradhan’s resignation.“It has been a month since we started demanding Pradhan’s resignation on social media,” PTI quoted Dipke as saying. “But these individuals are so shameless that instead of taking action, they have been focused on other distractions, like hacking our accounts and getting our posts deleted.”He said: “You may be able to delete our posts, but you cannot erase us from this space.”“For the past 10 to 12 years, these people have kept us trapped in Hindu-Muslim politics,” The Quint quoted Dipke as having told the protesters, asking who had benefited from it.“Did Hindu-Muslim politics get jobs for anyone in the country?” he asked.Dipke accused the government of focusing on the organisation’s social media activity instead of responding to its demands.The campaign was “not a planned party”, he said, adding that it was “students’ outrage”.“My mother was very scared that this government would throw me in jail,” he said. “In this country, every mother feels this fear when their child raises their voice against this government.”Earlier in the day, the police had stepped up security at Dipke’s home in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar city, PTI quoted a police officer as saying.The Delhi Police on Saturday granted permission for the Cockroach Janta Party to protest at the site till 5 pm. Officials had earlier said that no request had been received from the group and that more than 1,000 personnel had been deployed in the national capital.Some persons were detained for shouting slogans against the Cockroach Janta Party, The Hindu reported.“लोग कहते हैं आंदोलन, धरना प्रदर्शन और जुलूस निकालने से क्या होता है ?इससे यह सिद्ध होता है कि हम जीवित हैं !”सरकार के लिए हम हो सकते हैं कीड़े मकौड़े, लेकिन हम जीवित है और अपने हकों की लड़ाई लड़ने के लिए सक्षम है #cjpprotest pic.twitter.com/pDfenVCHFy— Cockroach is Back (@Cockroachisback) June 6, 2026