You can tear-gas a protest, but not a song: Inside CJP’s music of resistance

On June 6, 2026, a satirical outfit calling itself the Cockroach Janta Party called for a sit-in at Jantar Mantar, provoked by a leaked NEET paper. Seven weeks in, what started as one stunt around one exam scandal has widened into a general student uprising — the grievances have multiplied well past the original leak, the crowd has swelled past anything the organisers likely expected, and the tear gas has become routine. Street barricades now exist side by side with algorithmically tailored Instagram reels.There’s no voiceover on protest reels, no commentary explaining what you’re watching — just visuals cut to a song. A police baton connects, and the clip is scored to a nazm written in a country most of these protesters have never visited, under a dictatorship that ended before their pare