‘I’ll come back to meet my fellow cockroaches’: Last night at Jantar Mantar

6 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jul 26, 2026 04:10 PM IST Some supporters take selfies in celebration as the main stage of Jantar Mantar protest site is dismantled on Saturday, July 25, 2026. (Express Photo by Abhinav Saha) Close to midnight on Saturday, six men began dismantling the makeshift iron stage at Jantar Mantar. The celebrations that erupted hours earlier after Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced his resignation had subsided, and the long queues at the Kerala House and Tolstoy Marg entrances had thinned. Yet, several supporters lingered. Some climbed police barricades, fanning those who had stayed back. Others sat in groups sharing food, while a few took photographs beside candles lit in memory of students who died by suicide after the alleged NEET paper leak. Many simply