As the Cockroach Janta Party's protest at Jantar Mantar draws international attention and forces a Delhi High Court PIL, events on the ground are unfolding simultaneously across the country — revealing both the expanding reach of the movement and its increasingly detailed policy ambitions.

15 Activists Booked in Gwalior

Police in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, booked 15 CJP activists on Tuesday under Sections 163 and 170 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) — provisions related to unlawful assembly and potential breach of public order.

The activists had gathered at a public square in Gwalior's Lashkar area to hold a solidarity vigil for Sonam Wangchuk and to march in support of CJP's demands. According to witnesses, the gathering was entirely peaceful. Police arrived within 40 minutes and issued dispersal orders; when the group refused to leave, citing their right to peaceful assembly, 15 were detained and formally booked.

All 15 were released on bail by Wednesday morning, but the cases remain registered.

CJP condemned the bookings in a statement: "What has the government come to when fasting in solidarity with a hunger strike is treated as a public order threat? Students holding candles in Gwalior are not a threat to anyone. Pradhan's continued presence in the cabinet — that is the threat."

CJP's chief spokesperson Saurav Das said the Gwalior bookings would be "added to the long and growing list of reasons why Pradhan must go."

The Gwalior incident is not isolated. Since the protests began, CJP activists have been detained or questioned by police in Bhopal, Patna, Nagpur, Jaipur, and parts of Uttar Pradesh. In several cases, local police have attempted to prevent CJP solidarity marches by invoking provisions around public gathering without prior permission.

CJP Detentions Across India CJP activists have faced police action in Gwalior, Bhopal, Patna, Nagpur, Jaipur and multiple UP cities. The movement continues to call all actions peaceful and constitutionally protected.

The Tribune Exclusive: Beyond Pradhan — CJP's 12-Point Charter

In a major exclusive, *The Tribune* has published the full text of what it calls CJP's "charter for the overhaul of India's examination system" — a document that goes far beyond the movement's headline demand of Pradhan's resignation and lays out a sweeping, 12-point framework for reform.

The charter, developed by CJP's policy working group over the past several weeks, was shared with *The Tribune* by a senior CJP source. Dipke has not formally released it publicly, but confirmed its authenticity when asked.

The 12 points, summarised:

1. Immediate resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan — the non-negotiable first demand

2. A Supreme Court-monitored independent investigation into all examination paper leaks from 2020 to 2026, with findings made public within 90 days

3. Criminal prosecution of all officials found to have had advance knowledge of or involvement in paper leaks — including senior NTA officials and any politicians whose names emerge during investigation

4. Abolition of the National Testing Agency (NTA) in its current form and reconstitution as a fully independent statutory body, on the model of the Election Commission, with multi-party oversight

5. Decentralised examination infrastructure — examination centres to be established in every district headquarters of India, with real-time CCTV monitoring accessible to a public oversight portal

6. Mandatory psychological support and financial compensation for students who can demonstrably prove they were preparing for an examination that was subsequently cancelled or compromised

7. A one-time special examination window for all students affected by the 2025-26 NEET-UG and CBSE anomalies, without any additional fees

8. Right to information provisions applied to all public examinations — students to be able to access their individual answer sheets and marks breakdown within 30 days of results

9. A statutory examination ombudsman — an independent grievance redressal mechanism with the power to void results, order re-examinations, and impose penalties

10. Mandatory caste and socioeconomic data collection for all examination-related deaths, to be published in an annual report tabled in Parliament

11. A National Education Emergency Commission — a 60-day commission chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge, with student and civil society representation, to produce a comprehensive white paper on examination reform

12. Parliamentary accountability — an annual report on examination integrity to be presented by the Education Minister to both Houses of Parliament, with a dedicated question hour

CJP: "This Is What We Are Actually Fighting For"

Dipke, responding to the Tribune report, said: "People think the CJP is just about one resignation. That is our immediate demand — because accountability must begin somewhere. But this charter is what we are actually fighting for. We want to change the system, not just change the face behind the desk."

He added: "Every point in that charter was written by students — by people who sat those exams, who failed those exams, who had their futures broken by those exams. This is not a policy paper written by bureaucrats in air-conditioned offices. This is a demand sheet written by the people who lived through this."

Political analysts say the release of the charter — even in its current informal form — significantly strengthens CJP's long-term credibility. "It signals that this is not just an anger movement," said Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay. "It has thought through what it wants. That makes it harder to dismiss and harder to wait out."

The BJP has not responded to the charter. Its position remains that Pradhan will not resign and that the examination system is being reformed through existing government mechanisms.