Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke reiterated the organisation’s demand to sack Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, calling for accountability. File
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Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Friday (June 19, 2026) appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide ₹1 crore compensation to families of students who allegedly died by suicide “due to compounding crisis of paper leaks”. The letter comes ahead of CJP’s proposed second protest at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Saturday (June 20, 2026).
His letter addressed to PM Modi, posted on X, also comes in view of the NEET-UG re-examination scheduled to take place on Sunday (June 21, 2026).
Seeking to draw the prime minister’s attention to an “escalating crisis that threaten the very future of the nation,” Mr. Dipke claimed that 11 students had died by suicide in recent weeks, including five deaths in the last 48 hours.
He also reiterated the organisation’s demand to sack Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, calling for accountability. “The Cockroach Janta Party has been demanding the resignation of the education minister for the past month and has been protesting across the country for our demands. All that we students want is to see some accountability for the loss of lives.”
He urged the Centre to provide immediate financial assistance to affected families, arguing that many had taken substantial educational loans to support their children’s academic aspirations.
“Having lost the very children they poured their life savings into educating, these families have been left entirely destitute,” Mr. Dipke wrote, demanding a compensation package of ₹1 crore for families affected by what he described as the “compounding crisis of paper leaks”.
He added that holding leadership accountable is a “vital step toward restoring the faith of millions of students and parents in our educational framework”, and failing to do so “inadvertently sends a message that the administration accepts the status quo.”
“Therefore, we respectfully request you to sack the education minister. He is serving at your pleasure, and the buck stops with the prime minister,” he said. Mr. Dipke argued that removing the education minister would demonstrate the government’s commitment to accountability rather than weakness, and warned that inaction could deepen feelings of hopelessness among students and parents.
He also stressed immediate intervention and urged that the mental health and safety of students should be prioritised, and structural reforms should be brought in to “ensure that no more young lives are cut short by academic despair”.
“Students from all across India are assembling at Jantar Mantar, 20th June onwards, to raise our demand. We hope your government listens to the voice of India’s future,” he added.
CJP held its first demonstration at Jantar Mantar on June 6, before multiple peaceful protests across the country.
With PTI inputs
Published – June 19, 2026 11:38 am IST
