October 10 Jantar Mantar Call
Cockroach Janata Party convenor Abhijeet Dipke posted the next date on the night of 2 October 2026, after the Gandhi Jayanti assemblies in Mumbai and Delhi.
Stated Conditions
- Demand: Resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
- Date: 10 October 2026.
- Site: Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
- Route rule: If Delhi Police stops the march, the stop point becomes the protest site.
- Method: Described as a peaceful andolan on the path shown by Mahatma Gandhi.
"If Gyanesh Kumar doesn’t resign, cockroaches from across India will march to Delhi & protest at Jantar Mantar on October 10. If Delhi Police tries to stop us, wherever they stop us will become our Jantar Mantar."
2 October Record Cited in Reports
Sangbad Pratidin (updated 3 October 2026, 11:01 IST) reports assemblies on 2 October in Mumbai’s Shivaji Park and in Delhi, and attributes the 10 October announcement to Dipke’s night post.
- Delhi report line: at least 1,100 people detained, including former Delhi CM Atishi, CPM Politburo member Brinda Karat, AISA leader Neha Bora, and AAP MP Sanjay Singh.
- Mumbai report line: police did not grant permission; gathering still held. Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, and Vishal Dadlani named among those present.
X Traffic on 3 October
Posts on X on 3 October track the same call: crowd size claims for the 10 October Delhi plan, questions on whether CJP joins a separate Jantar Mantar action the same day, and debate on whether the demand should stop at resignation or include pre-SIR roll restoration.
Open Item
No separate Kolkata assembly time for 10 October was posted in the Dipke text used here. Kolkata nodes stay on the Delhi march condition until a local coordinate is issued.