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title: 'CJP Protest: The Truth of July 20 – Full Breakdown of Police, Media and the Ground'
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date: 2026-07-31
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# CJP Protest: The Truth of July 20 – Full Breakdown of Police, Media and the Ground

> Source: [CJP Protest: The Truth of July 20 – Full Breakdown of Police, Media and the Ground](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uRct3BZOzpM)

## Summary

This news breakdown by The News Launde recounts what happened on 20 July at Jantar Mantar, where a massive protest led by activist Abhijeet Deepak demanded the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Reporters describe the unexpected scale of the organic crowd, the police lathi charge and tear gas, the shutdown of the surrounding city, and the criticism of how mainstream media were treated.

### Key Points

- **Protest status and demand** [00:17] — Abhijeet Deepak again requested hunger-striking Sonam Wanguk on day 25 to break her fast; the main demand remains the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan, and a large crowd is still at Jantar Mantar.
- **Reporters on the ground** [01:43] — The team is covering the protest live; Tarun warns that a few troublemakers could weaken it and that protesters must not attack anyone in uniform.
- **Crowd builds from morning** [02:39] — Tarun reached Jantar Mantar at 7:30 a.m.; by around 9:00 the road was completely packed, with no space left, and supporters kept arriving for the planned march.
- **Organisers wait for organic crowd** [04:09] — The observer says organizers may have delayed the march to let organic, non-partisan protesters gather; there was also miscommunication about the route.
- **Lathi charge at the barricade** [06:21] — Chandrashekhar Azad led 250-300 people toward the barricade; Delhi Police launched a lathi charge, causing a stampede-like scramble.
- **Appeal to open barricade** [07:29] — Abhijeet used a truck to approach the barricade and repeatedly appealed for it to be opened.
- **Internet and metro shutdown** [08:22] — Mobile internet was down, making it hard to send stories; Janpath/Patel Chowk metro stations were closed and nearby shops were shut.
- **80-20 crowd ratio** [10:16] — Based on experience, the reporter estimates only about 20% of the crowd came from political parties; 80% were neutral, organic protesters.
- **Tear gas in the air** [13:02] — While leaving, the reporter felt burning on his face and nose; he confirmed tear gas had been deployed in the area.
- **CJI declines to watch videos** [16:50] — When the Bar Council raised the protest videos, the CJI reportedly said he doesn't have time to watch such videos; the reporter contrasts this with fines on stand-up comedians.
- **Opposition political support** [17:18] — Leaders from opposition parties have begun arriving — Shabana Azmi, Pawan Khera, Dimple Yadav, and Uddhav Thackeray — though some big names like Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav have not visited.
- **Media on the receiving end** [18:44] — The reporter condemns protesters branding mainstream reporters as 'Godi media' and harassing them, calling peaceful-protest claims double-faced when journalists are attacked.

### Conclusion

The video is a ground-level, chronological account of the 20 July Jantar Mantar protest and the police crackdown, ending with an appeal to keep the movement truly peaceful.

## Transcript

and the updates that are there till the time we are recording this video, the update is that Abhijeet Deepak has once again requested Sonam Wanguk on the 25th day that she should break her hunger strike and their protest will continue like this
because the demands have not been met yet. Want resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan. This is the biggest demand and a large number of people are still present at the protest site at Jantar Mantar.  Along with this, Sourav Das has also told that what he had
said earlier that now we will not go anywhere. You will have to come to Jantar Mantar and talk.   If any government official wants to talk, he should come to Jantar Mantar.  Is. Those people are sitting there.  The public court is held there.  But now they are saying
so they know that there may be some security concerns here. security concerns here. Because of this, now they are saying that we should choose a place where both the parties can come and talk at a neutral venue
and they want that now our government should not waste time because first of all, when we are going to talk about 20th, now in this video we are going to tell what actually happened on 20th ?  Because Tarun was also present on the ground since morning and I had also gone there.
So we will also tell you what happened there throughout the day. So but that's it as of now as of the time we're recording this video nothing has happened yet. One of our teams has reached there and videos of that are also coming continuously.
Whatever updates we are getting from Jantar Mantar about what is going on in this protest.   What I want to say here is that the way some people are
definitely weaken this protest. This is absolutely true.  They must be agreeing. If you also don't like someone then tell them.  Ask him lovingly to move away from there. someone then tell them.  Ask him lovingly to move away from there.
, all the hard work done with the students will be spoiled by this.  Or any force personnel who is beating you with sticks. Obviously, one gets angry that how can the government do this ?  How can it suppress the voices of students?
But there you also have to keep in mind that you do not beat up any person in uniform, there should not be any lynching there. Protest is even weaker than this.   On the 20th, Tarun starts from the beginning as to what was actually happening.  You were present there since morning.
I reached there at 7:30 in the morning.  The March call was at if we stay there at least an hour and a half in advance, it will be When I reached there, the protest site, if you have gone to Jantar Mantar, it is like
a road.  It is a long road.  It is a big road where almost 5000 to minimum 5000 people can gather. Anna's so-called movement, which went on from 2011 to 2013, also took place there.
Yes, I mean it kept happening at different places in Maharashtra, even in Mumbai, I think it happened at Shivaji Maidan or some such ground.  But the point is that when we reached at 7:30, Sumit was with me.  Was.  When
we reached there, it did not seem like there was much crowd.  Then we started sending stories one by one to ask, okay brother, what is the situation right now. What kind of atmosphere is there regarding the protest?  But as time went on, the
time went on, the swelling of the crowd was worth seeing.  There is a point where there was no place to keep sesame seeds.  By around 9:00 pm, the place was packed with the entire crowd.  The entire place was blocked.  But because the protest
march call was for 9:00 p.m. So we were repeatedly expecting that when will March happen?  When will March be? When will March be?  The march did not begin until much later.  In which we understood a strategy that Deep or his team must have felt
that apart from our core supporters, let us let the organic people who have come grow a little more. After that we will start the match.  This is an assessment.   No one had said anything.  But I feel that they too might not have expected
that the crowd would be so huge, which means there was miscommunication as well. We did a story yesterday regarding the route of the march. We are continuously on the ground on 21st July, which means we are on the ground on 19th, 20th and 21st as well. So there was a miscommunication regarding what the
route of the march should be. Then we kept waiting and many big leaders kept coming there, Mangchuk Son Mangchuk's wife came there, Shamana Azmi came there, Chandrashekhar Azad came there.   A lot of time passed.  Somewhere around, I
feel that I am not able to remember the time very clearly because there was so much rush, so many cases.  So there was a little bit of activity in it, like noticing things in minute details. But a truck arrived and Deep and his team boarded that truck. Sonam Wangchu's wife was in it.  I
think Shabana Azmi was also there.  And many things, meaning distance was increasing.  Meaning, sometimes we are at one place and the truck reaches somewhere else.  There is a four-shop shop at Jantar Mantar [nasal sound].  There was a tear gas
van parked there.  There was heavy deployment of police.  There was biggest thing was that after a point of time, the people present there, whether they were from the media or the protesters, were also forbidden from leaving, saying that brother, you cannot leave.   The
relief was that the weather cooperated.  If it had not rained and the scale of the crowd was such that one policeman, you people would have thought that we are not covering the police's side, then Meaning, there was so much heat there that the children would faint while being beaten.  Then
finally, during the protest, we felt that the atmosphere had been created.  Maybe they wo n't march to Parliament.  Call it off.  But what do we suddenly see?  Let us assume that somewhere around 12, 12:30, 1:30,
Chandrashekhar Azad leads a group and in that group there would be at least 250-300 people who run away with him together. Sumit was with us on camera, he was standing near a tyre.  I was a little behind him.
As soon as Chandrashekhar Azad reached the barricade, Delhi Police started lathi charge from there.  Then light lathi charge was done. Where were you present at that time? In that core protest area of ​​Jantar Mantar, as soon as there was an attempt to breach the barricade, when
Chandrashekhar and the people with him tried to breach the barricade, the first lathi charge took place, which I saw was not very fast, so people ran backwards and a stampede like situation was created.   It seemed as if
people would climb over each other.   If nothing else, the minimum charge that the first batch made was around Rs 57,000.  So it seemed as if people would climb over each other.  But fortunately no one fell.  Some people also fell and there was a glass lying there.  We did another
story.  Watch this story. That mirror hit a boy on the head.  The boys were beaten with How did this situation arise? This forward like crowd was coming a lot and we were just stuck in the middle.  Lathi charge was actually going on. So we were just stuck in the middle of it.
Yes, it was stamped.   Fell down. lying on the side.  So we fell on that. So people got injured.  Then slowly Abhijeet moved slowly in the truck towards the barricade and repeatedly appealed to
open the barricade.  Open the barricade.   By 3:00 our second team had arrived. When the second team arrived, I thought that now perhaps the atmosphere here will be such
may be that this is not March.  So we try to get out slowly. Around 3 o'clock, the police and the paramilitary forces gradually understood that we are allowing people to come, but if we do not let them go, the crowd here can become so
huge that it can go out of control.  Meanwhile I got a call from Soban.  Multiple calls came.  But in that call, Sohan asked me, friend Tarun, has tear gas been used ?  Well, before that I was hearing
sounds as if something had fired.  There is no need to fire bullets loudly.  There was a sound as if something had exploded but they were not able to understand whether it was tear gas or something else but I responded to them and said that look, nothing had happened where I was.
One of my biggest mistakes was that the internet was not working, so I was that the internet was not working, so I was We were able to send stories with great difficulty. So when we were leaving,
when you come out of Jantar Mantar, there are many ways to reach there.  There is a road through which you will go, on your right side you must have heard the name of Connaught Place, that road leads to Connaught Place.  On the other hand, RBI goes to the Parliament.  When I came out on
that road from Jantar Mantar.  It was mind boggling.  I had never imagined in my life that there would not be
I think that when these pictures started coming, there was suddenly some commotion in the Parliament and you must have seen the videos that suddenly the guards who are present in the Parliament and it was the
first day of the Parliament session and the reporters who were present there that day saw that those people were running away and orders were given to close the gates of the Parliament and some people were standing behind with water cannons so that
if the crowd suddenly comes and a very dangerous situation arises that the crowd goes inside the Parliament, then to stop them, those visuals started coming from there and along with that, people were also deployed there with guns.  Those guns
could also be rubber bullet guns and it is possible that if such a situation arises that the crowd enters inside, then orders to shoot there could also be given. But thank God
that such a situation did not arise.  The crowd was dispersed.  But there was a lot of lathi charge. We have also seen this.  Many people who were students there have been injured and one
thing that is understood is that there was an 80-20 ratio of organic crowd there. Because those who are politically funded, like someone is told to bring buses full of people.  You must have heard that Chandrashekhar Azad said, tell me
how many people you need.  So he is an MP. Obviously, if he tells his followers, they will definitely come when he says, let's go, that crowd because when Tarun, you are telling all these incidents, then a lot of visuals from there have started
coming now.  We will talk about all of them as well.  But when we reached there it was around 4:30 and we had reached from Tolstoy Road. Now from the Toss Road side you have to cross the Janpadwala intersection.  On the right side
is your CP and a little ahead of it is Jantar Mantar.  So there he is outside Delhi.  I will interrupt Sobhan with apologies for a minute.  For those who are outside Delhi, let me just tell you that these are the areas where it is
these are the areas where it is not even possible to imagine such a crowd.  Why? You must have heard the name of the district.  There is a district market and there are shops lined up here.  No shop was open.  All the metro stations nearby, including the metro station named Janapada, were
also closed and all the stations like Patel Chowk nearby were closed, the internet was also down at that time, we were not able to make the payment, we had taken cash with us because we had got the information that we were definitely able to talk on the phone, the
network we connected to Tarun was working, you can talk on the phone, but your network, that is the internet, was not working, it was fortunate that at least we coordination was happening through F, as I was telling you earlier, when
I went out on that road, on one side there was Cannot Place and on the other side there was Parliament, RBI, for me I have covered the Delhi riots in this life. I have covered the CAA NRC protests.
I have covered the violence in Jamia and JNU.  I have covered the farmers' movement. But I have never seen anything like this in my life. I have been in Delhi for 16 years and most of my students are from South and Central Delhi.  It is
beyond my imagination that that road could be choked.  Then I slowly started walking.  There is a road outside Jantar Mantar which leads towards Parliament.  The press club is there.  I had parked my car right there.  I felt like leaving
because the other team had arrived.  Slowly, as I was media.  The police will let you go.   They were letting him go also.  But when I moved a little distance, I started feeling a strange burning sensation on my face. As I moved forward, the burning sensation
moved into my nose.  It went into my eyes and the burning sensation became so intense that I had to ask Sumit, Sumit, does it feel like there is a very strong smell and your face is burning?  So he said, brother, it looks exactly like that. I said there is tear gas in the air.   Come back, come back.
We ran away from there.   He tried to verify with people.  When we started verifying from people, the
that time that brother, 4:00 means we were about to reach and before that the tear gas started being used. I tasted it.  I tasted that chilli, brother, what a taste it is. Till date I have never heard that
tear gas has been used and felt it first hand. You Can't Imagine Oh Ho Ho is a very tasty thing.  By the time I was talking to an individual.  I was asking them, look, this is that individual. Listen to them a little bit.
How many glasses have you put four or five tear guards on?  And I think lathi charge also took place.  Some people have felt it too.  And everyone is protesting quite peacefully. I come from a place of privilege.  And I think those who have
privilege should raise their voice because only then will there be some change in the country.  So as you heard them saying that this is a privilege.  Meaning he comes from a rich class. He has a decent life.  He says that he benefited from the Indian education system
and that is why he is where he is today in life. I am telling you with utmost honesty that whatever political parties there are, I can leading this.  Which political parties support them?  Definitely it is.
But the crowd that day, from my experience of covering all such incidents, I am telling you one thing that hardly 20% of the crowd would have been from political parties.  He was bad. He had a cadre.  I am
saying with great responsibility that 80% of the crowd was a very neutral crowd.  As crowd was a very neutral crowd.  As trying to verify with her happened in front of us. He took the tear gas and smoke rose.
We ran away from there.  When I ran away from there and reached the Press Club with great difficulty, I saw that brother, I could not have imagined that I would
imagined that I would see such a protesting crowd in front of the Parliament with my own eyes in 2026, as they had finally said that they would reach the Parliament.  He reached the Parliament that day. reach the Parliament.  He reached the Parliament that day.
not reach.  Dipke was taken aback. His truck was stopped.  The truck was emptied. His truck was stopped.  The truck was emptied. Deepak could not reach.  Saurabh Das and Ashutosh Raka were sitting
with JP Nadda sahab and the third brother has now been removed by the CJP from the position of official spokesperson. Dhaiya Saheb, Vijay Dhaiya, later he posted a video of himself eating that burger.   From the very
which did not seem right.  Meaning, if you are talking about such a serious topic then you should not have done that at all, about which we also talked yesterday.  Well, now we will not talk about him because now he is
coming from the police. You can see the way the police slapped a girl. That visual, I think it cannot be AI.  The way bad touch would be called, he touched a girl badly. After that we talked to each other smilingly.   He
passes a smile and you understand what he is trying to say and what he is trying to say and the way he has hit the girl's backside with the stick is also very shameful.  You should be ashamed.  The police should also be ashamed.
We are not saying what we are saying.  The Bar Council of the Supreme Court of India has completely different matter that when this matter went to CJI and he was asked to hear it,
he said that he does not have time to watch such videos.  It may not be so, brother, in India there are 5 crore cases pending in the courts.  So when there is so much work, it is possible that there may not be time to watch videos.
So this is also a different story that means the videos of stand up comedians are fined Rs 3-3 lakh.  So, regarding the protest video, at least the Supreme Court is saying that it does not have time to watch the videos related to it.
that it does not have time to watch the videos related to it. interesting that the CGI gentleman himself had accidentally uttered the words. Cockroach was his own word, which he later corrected a little.
After that, the Congress Janata Party emerged from there.  From there, the seed was sown. After that, such a big Congress Janata Party came on social media.  Then he went and was not on the ground, so she came on the ground also.  And after coming to the ground, you must have seen for how many days
Abhijeet Dike was sitting alone and eating bread pakora. But now he is also getting political support. If you look at the political parties, all the big political parties are opposition parties are reaching there.  Even Congress
's Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi may not have reached.  But Pawan Khera is a great leader.  He had also arrived. Congress also got support. You can see the support of Samajwadi Party there.  And Akhilesh Yadav did not
reach there either, but his wife, who is an MP herself, Dimple Yadav also reached there and apart from this, people from other big parties kept reaching there, Uddhav Thackeray reached there, Shiv Sena people are the latest, he has just reached there.  So these people have gone back and are
sitting there.  But ah if you look at this protest, there was an organic crowd in it.  It was also seen that vandalism had taken place and the visuals of who had done the vandalism were also captured. Along with this, the visuals of what is happening with the reporters are
also captured.  It is also seen that he is spoiling the would like to say two or three small things. One of my observations is that I did not think that One of my observations is that I did not think that
and such a crowd would be allowed to come.  This is baffling for me because the Delhi Police, which was not giving permission for the march, was means how did they allow this protest to continue for such a long time? I made
three or four requests for an interview to Deepak when I was there yesterday on 21st July, but Deepak said that if I take one person for an exclusive conversation then the rest and now there are so many YouTubers and digital platforms that it is a
challenge for people like us that we are able to have very few exclusive conversations. If anyone from CJP wants to talk about this, I would like you to please tell me how this stage was please tell me how this stage was set up again?  This is one thing.  You can decide
who you want to engage with and how you want to engage.  But in this culture of Godi media go back, the reporters of those mainstream organizations are going to the ground. What did he do that he is being
lynched like this there? Who will insure this?  The protest is yours. Why can't you decide this again and again in your mind? Why can't your repeated messaging be this ?   Be it any anchor or any editor,
any anchor or any editor, how is that field reporter responsible for his take, his opinion, his saying or his doing?  If you haven't even seen his body of work.
And despite that, just because he belongs to an organization.  You are branding it as lapdog media. When you see the batons of Delhi Police, you say bring a rose flower, bring the Constitution.  We are indeed Gandhians.  We
are non-violent.  When you see a media person with a microphone from any mainstream organization, you immediately label him as Godi media and lynch him. media and lynch him. So this means that your Gandhism is a
double-faced Gandhism.  And you will have to fix this.  Those who are there, that is, the police, the paramilitary people, they too will have to be ensured that there is no violence against them.  So this will be a big question, whoever is the leadership
you will have to ensure it, the way you are repeatedly saying peaceful, then your peaceful protest will definitely get spoiled because of this, if someone is beaten, any mainstream media reporter is
misbehaved with, as you saw visually, their condition, that is, whatever we are seeing visually, we do not know, we were not there, who beat up and who did The way you are saying that we will go peacefully, we will go peacefully,
bring a rose flower or you bring the Constitution book.  So you will have to ensure this because this entire protest is somehow linked to CJP. Now, discussions on this protest will continue because there
is still a lot of anger among the people and along with that, we are also trying to show you what is actually happening on the ground because many viral videos are coming.  Who to trust and who not to trust.  AI can
also be used elsewhere. Now we have got the support of political parties.  This also makes you a complete episode on Rahul Gandhi. sit on a protest and the Delhi Police pulls you out?  So I
wrap this up for now. Please decline.  Disagree with us here as well and in the field, if you feel like it, you can do a double disagreement. But this blanket perception of the Muslim
community or the people of Bihar, whenever there is an we say in return that not all are the same, so not all the media is the same. You should decline.  We respect your disagreement more than your agreement.
Provided violence is wrong. With this we end this episode. We will continue to bring such episodes for you.  Keep watching the switch. My name is Saubhag and you were watching The News Launde.  [music]