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LiveOngoing · New Delhi + nationwide · 2026-07-28

E20 revolt 28 Jul: taxi union calls Parliament march; Gaadi March in 3 days

28 July 2026: Delhi Taxi and Tourist Transporters Association announces a peaceful Parliament march on 4 August against forced E20. Same week the Centre admits in Parliament it never assessed what share of India's vehicles are fully E20-compatible. Team Bharat's Gaadi March, Gandhi March is still set for 31 July past Gadkari and Puri. Demand stays: consumer choice and Nitin Gadkari resign.

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  1. NewVerified report

    28 JULY PROTEST CALL. Delhi Taxi and Tourist Transport and Tour Operators Association (president Sanjay Samrat) announces a peaceful march to Parliament on 4 August against ethanol-blended petrol. ANI / LatestLY / HT cover it. Line from the association: lakhs of bikes, cars, and taxis risk becoming scrap; older fleets were not built for forced E20; remove the ethanol mandate / get independent scientific review. They say the march is commercial-vehicle pain, not party theatre. After CJP forced a minister out, transporters are walking into the same pressure zone. Next street dates: Team Bharat Gaadi March 31 July, taxi/transport Parliament march 4 August.

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  2. NewOfficial statement

    PARLIAMENT BOMB under the protest.

    Government reply (Rajya Sabha, MoS Petroleum Suresh Gopi): Ministry of Heavy Industries has done NO assessment of what percentage of vehicles in India are fully compatible with E20. They still claim lab trials and field data show the fuel is 'safe' and deny widespread engine failure. Citizens' translation: you forced a 20% blend nationwide without counting how many tanks and rubber parts were never designed for it. That is why scooters struggle and taxi unions march. Demand resignation and choice, not another humility tweet.

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  3. NewVerified report

    HEAT MAP 28 JULY. Hindustan Times: Centre takes more flak; sacking / resignation talk around Nitin Gadkari and Hardeep Singh Puri; transport unions on protest footing; AAP says a campaign against E20 starts next month. AutoX: E20 Janta Party online following in the lakhs; offline marches stacking; a PIL against forced blend without choice is reported toward the Supreme Court. Team Bharat still locks Gaadi March for 31 July (India Gate → Gadkari / Puri → Parliament Street) with Gadkari-resign language in Statesman coverage. This is not one tweet anymore. It is a calendar of street pressure.

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  4. Verified report

    HIS JOB IS ROADS. Nitin Gadkari is Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways. In Parliament he promised India's road infrastructure would be like America's by 2024 (Firstpost / Times Now). It is 2026. Monsoon lakes on lanes. New asphalt that dies in months. Corruption in tenders is the open secret. Same ministry told Parliament: 9,438 deaths from potholes and road engineering defects, 2020-2024. Gadkari also admitted India tops road deaths and he tries to 'hide his face' at global crash conferences. Who is this man to decide forced E20 for your tank while the roads he owns still kill? Resignation is the minimum. Not a speech. Not a ribbon.

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  5. Verified report

    DEMAND: NITIN GADKARI RESIGN.

    Inspired by CJP's win, the E20 Janta Party launches a campaign for consumer choice: sell 100% petrol alongside blends, transparent labelling, independent mileage / engine / cost data. Core political ask: Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari must resign over the E20 push. TOI and Economic Times cover the launch. Transporters in Delhi also plan a Parliament march (reported for 4 Aug). This is not a meme. Scooters that refuse to start and tanks that rust are the street evidence ministers call 'false narrative'.

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  6. Verified report

    31 JULY DELHI: Team Bharat announces 'Gaadi March, Gandhi March', a peaceful vehicle protest against forced E20.

    Route reported: India Gate past offices / residences of Nitin Gadkari and Hardeep Singh Puri, toward Parliament Street. Demands in coverage include restoring E10 choice for vehicles built for it, cheaper ethanol-free option, public E20 policy papers, fixes for pre-2023 vehicles, and addressing Gadkari conflict-of-interest questions. Note: this is Team Bharat's call, not the same as the CJP Jantar Mantar sit-in. Support CJP-style nationwide peaceful pressure. Do not invent that Dipke scheduled this march unless he says so on record.

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  7. Official statement

    Gadkari's defence: mileage may dip because ethanol has lower calorific value; vehicle damage talk is 'overblown' / 'false narrative'; show him one damaged car.

    Petroleum ministry has cited roughly 3-5% efficiency loss in some cases. ARAI controlled tests reported about 2-6% drop vs E10. Citizens' lived experience: harder starts, worse mileage, corroding parts, expensive 'premium' ethanol-free petrol at select pumps. Official lab numbers do not erase garage bills. When the minister who championed the blend also faces conflict questions over family ethanol links (he calls the share tiny), resignation is a fair civic demand, not hate.

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LiveOngoing · Upper Assam (Sivasagar, Charaideo, Jorhat, Golaghat) · 2026-07-27

Assam floods 2026: 66 dead, villages cut off, BJP asks workers for ₹12 crore

July 2026: Upper Assam drowned. Sivasagar, Charaideo, Jorhat, Golaghat. CM Himanta Biswa Sarma (BJP) says 400%+ excess rain in places. Death toll 66 by 26 July; thousands marooned; rotting cattle and mud-filled homes in ground reports. 20-25% of worst-hit areas were unreachable. Opposition says relief failed. BJP launched a ₹12 crore party-worker donation drive for clothes while Congress and Raijor Dal demand faster state action and national calamity status. Army, NDRF, and a central assessment team are on record. Trishola records the horror and the accountability gap.

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  1. NewVerified report

    WHILE PEOPLE DROWN, PARTY COLLECTS.

    Death toll 66 (TOI / Hindu, 26 July). BJP state unit says it needs ₹12 crore from party workers to buy Mekhela-Chadors and children's clothes for flood-hit families. Donations up to ₹2,000 to local MLAs; larger sums to BJP Assam's bank account (The Hindu). Himanta announced distribution for 4 lakh women and children in Sivasagar, Charaideo, Jorhat, Golaghat. Citizens' question: why is disaster clothing a party donation campaign while the state is already on the treasury? Gaurav Gogoi (Congress): government failed flood victims, relief must beat politics. Akhil Gogoi (Raijor Dal): operations still have not reached all areas; declare a national calamity. Trishola does not claim zero rescue. NDRF, Army, and camps are on record. We do claim this BJP-era pattern: spectacle relief, slow reach, opposition silenced in Assembly, and victims left with mud where homes stood.

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  2. Verified report

    ON THE GROUND: Families return to muck and total loss.

    Sentinel Assam: some survivors have nothing but the clothes on their backs. Deccan Herald from Sivasagar: lost homes, rotting cattle. ASDMA bulletins: 810+ villages submerged at peak; ~35,000 hectares of crops damaged; embankments, roads, bridges hit. Dikhow and Dhansiri rivers flowed above danger mark. Himanta called the situation 'pathetic', 'dangerous', and beyond description. He said 70-80 people were missing at one stage (The Print / Sentinel). Drone food drops were tried; CM admitted many packets were damaged and people preferred conventional relief convoys (New Indian Express). 274 relief camps sheltered nearly 19,000 displaced by Sunday bulletin. That is not nothing. It is also not enough when a quarter of the worst-hit geography could not be reached.

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  3. Official statement

    CENTRE ON RECORD: Amit Shah called Himanta; inter-ministerial central team to assess damage and reconstruction needs (PTI / The Print).

    Sonowal visited affected areas and pledged coordination. State says Army, Air Force, and NDRF assisted evacuations (nearly 1,000 rescued in one NDTV tally). Opposition adjournment motions on floods were rejected in the Assembly (The Print). Citizen audit: promises of central aid are standard monsoon theatre. Rehabilitation cheques, crop loss compensation, and embankment repair are the test. BJP has ruled Assam for years. Every flood season the same script: ministers in boats, then mud, then memory fade.

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Update · New Delhi + nationwide · 2026-07-26

CJP win, then Pralhad Joshi: part-time Education Minister after Pradhan exit

26 July 2026: Pralhad Joshi takes additional charge as Union Education Minister after Dharmendra Pradhan resigned under CJP pressure. Joshi still holds Consumer Affairs and New & Renewable Energy. He called education 'a new area of work for me.' CJP ended the ~37-day Jantar Mantar sit-in after resignation plus assurances on compensation and FIRs. Dipke: 'This is just the beginning.' Watch whether promises become paper.

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  1. NewVerified report

    EXPOSE THE SWAP. 26 July: Pralhad Joshi takes charge as Union Education Minister. Not a dedicated education boss. Additional charge. He keeps Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, and New and Renewable Energy. Same day he says education is 'a new area of work for me' and he will 'prioritise understanding' the department first (PTI / LiveMint / Hindustan Times). Translation: after paper leaks forced Pradhan out, the Centre parks a party crisis manager who already runs two ministries and is openly learning education on the job. Humility posts do not fix NTA rot. Watch compensation cheques and FIR withdrawals, not soft speeches.

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  2. NewVerified report

    CJP ends the Jantar Mantar sit-in after Pradhan's resignation and government assurances on compensation for NEET suicide victims' families and FIR / case relief for peaceful protesters.

    Dipke posts a thank-you video: slept in his own bedroom for the first time after about 37 hard days, salutes everyone who stayed, thanks critics who forced the movement to improve, and says 'this is just the beginning.' Win noted. Delivery still the test.

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  3. Verified report

    After Pradhan's resignation, Dipke told supporters not to turn him into a personal hero.

    TOI quotes him: 'Don't make me a hero because Dharmendra Pradhan resigned today. Don't make this mistake… The country has been ruined because of making one person a hero.' ABP Live carries the same line in Hindi: एक व्यक्ति को हीरो बनाने की वजह से ही देश बर्बाद हुआ है. The jab is at one-man hero worship. India knows which cult that names. Movement first. Personality later. Never.

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  4. Official statement

    BREAKING 25 July: Dharmendra Pradhan announces he has submitted his resignation as Union Education Minister to PM Narendra Modi.

    Letter cites national unity, student futures, and not letting 'anti-national forces' exploit the Jantar Mantar situation. Celebration at Jantar Mantar. CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke: 'We have done it.' He said people claimed resignations do not happen under this government. Still: Dipke says two demands remain pending: ₹1 crore compensation for families of students who died by suicide after the leak crisis, and action against police officers who ordered / carried out the 20 July lathi-charge (he named officers in remarks; treat officer-blame lines as CJP allegation until charges stick). CJP also wants cases against peaceful protesters withdrawn. Sit-in continues. 'Once we enter, we do not leave.'

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  5. Verified report

    Earlier 25 July (pre-resignation): third round of Centre–CJP talks expected.

    After Friday's Constitution Club meeting (~2 hours), ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh sought time till Saturday afternoon. CJP said government gave in-principle yes on compensation for NEET suicide victims' families (Rs 1 crore cited) and no legal action / FIR withdrawal for peaceful protesters. Resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was the sticking point. Ashutosh Ranka: if Pradhan will not resign, 'no point' in talks. Security tightened at Jantar Mantar. Later the same day, Pradhan resigned.

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  6. Verified report

    CJP called 'every district, one day, one demand' peaceful protests nationwide for 24 July, aiming to 'create a Jantar Mantar' in each district.

    Same day: Centre agreed to talks at a neutral venue. CJP said a delegation (Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka, Vaishnavi Gaur cited in coverage) would meet Union ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh at the Constitution Club of India (~12:30 pm in TOI). Core asks unchanged: Pradhan resignation, compensation for affected families / suicide victims, withdrawal of FIRs on peaceful protesters. Protest at Jantar Mantar continues in parallel with talks.

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  7. Verified report

    Late 23 / early 24 July: Sonam Wangchuk ended his 26-day hunger strike at Medanta in the presence of Union ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh, citing written assurances (peaceful-protester cases / non-registration talk, compensation consideration for NEET suicide victims, Parliament discussion on paper leaks). He urged vigilance against violence. CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke thanked Wangchuk and said the peaceful Jantar Mantar protest continues until Dharmendra Pradhan resigns. Fast ending ≠ movement ending.

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  8. Official statement

    PM Narendra Modi's first direct public push on the leak row: posts / a late video message announcing fast-track courts for paper-leak cases, directing officials to act, and saying those who harm youth futures will not be spared. Later messaging pointed to Cabinet considering a draft law for fast-track courts and stricter punishment, with a monsoon-session approval push. CJP response: insufficient without accountability. Dipke / CJP posts kept 'Dharmendra Pradhan Must Resign.' Economic Times: CJP won't leave Jantar Mantar until Pradhan goes. Fast-track courts are process talk. Resignation is the unmet political demand.

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  9. Official statement

    Same news cycle: DRDO maiden flight test of Project Kusha long-range surface-to-air missile from APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha.

    Official: intercepted an electronic high-speed / high-altitude target. Rajnath Singh hailed it as an indigenous air-defence milestone. Fact: real defence R&D test. Civic note: defence glory often floods feeds while student demands fight for airtime. See What's next for diversion watch. Do not invent a war from one SAM trial.

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  10. Official statement

    Supreme Court declined urgent listing / suo motu cognisance of a plea on alleged police brutality during the 20 July CJP Sansad Chalo crackdown.

    Lawyer told CJI Surya Kant's bench (with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohan) that students were beaten and that videos of police assault were available. CJI orally: 'Don't waste our time'; 'We are not interested in videos. We don't have time to watch them.' Hindu and TOI reported the exchange. A day earlier Delhi High Court CJ D.K. Upadhyaya also refused immediate listing of a similar PIL ('Don't drag the Court into this'). This is not a judgment on the merits of every brutality clip. It is the top court declining to watch the videos at mention stage. Citizens still have High Court regular listing, NHRC, MLC papers, and Article 32 paths. Save unedited video anyway.

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  11. Official statement

    Delhi Police registered multiple FIRs after the 20 July clash (reports ranged from 6 to 10 across New Delhi stations: Parliament Street, Connaught Place, and others).

    Provisions cited include BNS unlawful assembly / violence tracks, Arms Act, and Prevention of Damage to Public Property. Sources said a 'larger conspiracy' angle was under probe. Later reporting: ~20 teams on chats (including Bitchat / WhatsApp), CCTV, mobile dumps, facial recognition. CJP and students face a dual track: street pressure and expanding criminal paperwork. Keep lawyer numbers ready if you were on the march.

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  12. Disputed

    Pellet-gun claims from the Sansad Chalo day: CJP / viral posts alleged pellets; some hospital reporting in major papers discussed pellet-like injuries.

    Delhi Police called pellet-gun use false and said the force does not have such guns; also denied RAF stun-gun claims. Tag stays disputed until a named forensic / CRPF or independent inquiry locks the weapon type. Do not share cropped injury clips as finished proof of a named force's inventory.

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  13. Allegation / claim

    Viral video circulating from the Delhi crackdown shows two policemen hitting young women protesters with batons on the hips and private area above the thighs, appearing to aim on purpose while laughing with other officers. Call it what it looks like: sexualised violence under a uniform, not crowd control. Separately on the public record: CJP alleged assault on women, including hair-pulling of Gitanjali Angmo and beating of teenage girls; TOI carried eyewitness lines that women were 'beaten like animals'. Delhi Police called Angmo / minor-assault posts false and said no targeted personal assault. The specific hips / private-area laughing clip is logged as allegation until a named newsroom freezes faces, badge numbers, and time-place, or survivors file MLC / complaint with the video attached. If you are a survivor: hospital MLC the same day, keep unedited video, NCW / NHRC / women police station complaint, lawyer. Do not share cropped humiliation clips of victims' faces without consent.

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  14. Disputed

    CJP posted videos alleging blue-uniform personnel threw stones at student protesters during the Sansad Chalo clash, and asked why stone-pelting by police followed a lathi-charge.

    Mathrubhumi and LiveMint reported those CJP clips and the party’s claim of police stone-pelting. Separately, viral citizen clips allege police damaged their own vehicle windows / glass to blame CJP for vandalism. Delhi Police’s public line is the opposite: protesters pelted stones, attacked personnel, and damaged buses and security vehicles (windshields shattered; 15–20 government vehicles cited in some police tallies). Both stone stories and the staging claim are logged as disputed until unedited multi-angle video or a named newsroom IDs who broke which glass. Do not crop a 3-second clip into a finished conviction. If you filmed it: keep the full file with timestamp and location.

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  15. Disputed

    Viral videos and protester accounts allege Delhi Police used lathis with nails / spikes fixed on them, and that at least one hospitalised person showed puncture marks across chest, face, and hands.

    AAP MP Sanjay Singh publicly alleged nails in batons during the crackdown. Delhi Police called the nail-fitted lathi videos 'false and misleading' and said the circulating clips are 'not related' to Monday's protest; they say they are scanning 250+ videos from phones, CCTV, drones, and bodycams. Trishola logs both sides. A nail-studded stick used on students would be torture-grade force, not lawful crowd control. Save hospital papers and unedited video with timestamps if you are the injured person. Do not share cropped clips as finished proof.

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  16. Allegation / claim

    Viral video circulating from the Delhi crackdown shows a riot-control munition (tear gas / smoke shell type) detonating and ripping open a protester's palm.

    Viewers call it a bomb. Trishola treats the clip as an injury allegation until a named hospital discharge summary or major newsroom identifies the victim and munition. Separately verified: Delhi Police and RAF lobbed tear gas shells at scale; Hindu reported hospitals treating fractures, tear-gas swelling, head and eye injuries; Print reported intense tear-gas and lathi use near Patel Chowk. Expired-shell claims are also circulating (see next). A canister that explodes in a hand is not 'crowd management'. It is maiming. Force on peaceful students must be proportionate under Supreme Court standards (Anita Thakur; Ramlila Maidan). This is not a licence to bomb children.

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  17. Allegation / claim

    CJP voices and viral reels allege Delhi Police used expired tear gas shells (markings cited as made Dec 2022 / expired Dec 2025).

    Times Now and Free Press Journal covered the call-out. Why expiry matters: old canisters can misfire, burn hotter, or dump uneven chemical loads. On cyanide: CS tear gas (orthochlorobenzylidenemalononitrile) can release hydrogen cyanide (HCN) as a thermal breakdown product when dispersed at very high temperatures. That is documented in occupational-health research, not a WhatsApp invention. It does not mean every expired shell is a cyanide bomb, and open-air doses are usually far below lethal cigarette-range HCN talk from experts. Still: firing stock past expiry on students is reckless. Demand batch numbers, manufacture/expiry stamps, and lab assay via RTI / NHRC. Police have not confirmed expiry in statements we linked.

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  18. Allegation / claim

    Doctors who reached the protest to treat injured students alleged police assaulted them despite identifying as medics.

    Medical Dialogues reported their claims and viral videos; some volunteers needed stitches. BBC separately filmed volunteer doctor Gaurish Batra treating head and leg injuries at Jantar Mantar. AIIMS Delhi resident doctors wrote to the President citing force against peaceful protesters including students and doctors. Delhi Police have not confirmed assault on medics in statements we linked.

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  19. Disputed

    Viral social media clips show heavy paramilitary, anti-riot vehicles, and armed security near Parliament.

    Times Now reported tear gas and paramilitary pressed in as protesters neared Shastri Bhawan. CJP alleged pellet guns; Delhi Police denied. The Hindu, BBC, Scroll, and TOI confirm tear gas and lathi-charge. Trishola has not found a major outlet confirming firearms were aimed or fired at students; treat gun-related clips as unverified until a named newsroom or official record confirms.

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  20. Debunked

    Viral posts claimed a girl died on the spot from lathi-charge.

    PIB Fact Check and Delhi Police called this false. No protest-related death is confirmed in official statements we could find. Some reports mention injured protesters in hospital; treat any fatality claim as unverified unless a hospital or court record appears.

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  21. Disputed

    CJP spokesperson Saurav Das alleged pellet guns were used.

    Delhi Police denied pellet guns and warned against spreading unverified clips. Scroll and News18 reported both sides. Trishola does not settle this from videos alone.

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  22. Allegation / claim

    Viral clips from the site show a reporter asking why name tags / nameplates were removed.

    A woman in blue uniform replies that it was because of heat (garmi). That exchange is circulating as proof of a bad-faith excuse: July heat does not cancel identification rules when force is used on citizens. Major English outlets have confirmed missing nameplates (see next note). Trishola has not yet found a major newsroom transcript of the exact heat quote, so this line stays tagged allegation until a named outlet publishes it.

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  23. Verified report

    CJP protesters and viral videos show Delhi Police / RAF and other uniformed personnel without visible nameplates during the crackdown, plus plainclothes men with batons.

    TimelineDaily reports protesters confronting staff whose plates or badges were removed or obscured. Legal experts cited Supreme Court guidance that enforcement personnel should wear clear identification in crowd control. Hiding identity while beating students is accountability rot, not crowd science. Delhi Police said it handled the situation professionally.

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  24. Official statement

    Videos showed men in plainclothes with batons who were not in Delhi Police or RAF uniform.

    Delhi Police sources told ABP Live these were Special Staff personnel deployed because of the crowd size.

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  25. Verified report

    Delhi Police said about 60 protesters and more than 118 police/paramilitary personnel were injured.

    The Hindu reported at least 38 injured taken to Lady Hardinge and about 65 to RML Hospital, with fractures and tear-gas injuries. About 70 detentions and multiple FIRs under BNS were reported.

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  26. Verified report

    Scroll filmed and interviewed injured young protesters, including a 16-year-old student hit by a lathi.

    BBC reported demonstrators returning bleeding from the head. AISA claimed male officers lathi-charged women protesters; that specific claim is not yet independently verified by Trishola beyond The Print's report of the allegation.

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  27. Verified report

    Tear gas and lathi-charges at Patel Chowk, Jantar Mantar, Connaught Place, and near Parliament.

    Mobile internet curbs in central Delhi and five Metro stations closed (Rajiv Chowk, Janpath, Patel Chowk, Central Secretariat, Seva Teerth). Paramilitary reserves mobilised; Times Now described the zone as looking like a 'war zone' with tear gas near Shastri Bhawan.

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  28. Verified report

    CJP's 'Chalo Sansad' march on the first day of Monsoon Session.

    Demand: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resign over exam irregularities. Protest banned; thousands still gathered at Jantar Mantar. Some groups breached barricades toward Parliament before being pushed back.

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  29. Verified report

    HOW IT ALL STARTED. 15 May: the Chief Justice compares jobless young Indians to cockroaches. 16 May: Abhijeet Dipke, a jobless 30-year-old looking for work, posts on X: 'What if all cockroaches came together?' Around 11,000 replies in 12 hours (EL PAIS). Same day he founds the satirical Cockroach Janta Party, website built in a couple of hours, tagline 'Voice of the Lazy & Unemployed'. Ten weeks later, a Union Education Minister resigns. One tweet. Remember that the next time someone says posting changes nothing.

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Update · 2026-07-21

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