The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Sunday claimed that 30-40 people linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Delhi Police had infiltrated its protest and planned to make provocative statements to disrupt the demonstration.

In a post on X, the group urged protesters to identify these ‘goons’ and distance themselves from such individuals, saying they were not supporters of CJP or activist Sonam Wangchuk.

CJP also said a heavy police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) presence was building up at the protest site, with multiple police vehicles and detention buses deployed in the area.

It claimed tear gas launchers had also been readied at the scene.

The Delhi Police said on Sunday that the CJP protesters had neither obtained permission to continue their demonstration at Jantar Mantar nor sought approval for the planned march on Monday, according to the Indian Express newspaper.

The CJP is planning a march to Parliament on July 20 in protest of student deaths due to suicide over exam irregularities. The protesters are calling for Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to step down.

However, according to police, the march cannot be allowed as prohibitory orders are in force around Parliament due to the start of the Monsoon Session, the report said.

CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke and activist Sonam Wangchuk have called on supporters to march to Parliament on Monday, the first day of the Monsoon Session.

Gitanjali Angmo, the wife of Wangchuk, said on Sunday that she has approached the Delhi High Court for an urgent hearing seeking permission to move her husband to a hospital of the family’s choice.

Earlier, she said she had lost faith in the hospital where her husband is being treated and warned that the hospital and the government would be responsible if anything happened to the activist.

“Despite repeated requests, the hospital has refused to discharge him or allow us to shift him to a private hospital of our choice,” she wrote on X.

“With around 30 police personnel stationed on our floor and well over 100 across the hospital, our movement is severely restricted. It is not medical care. It is illegal detention.”

Angmo alleged the hospital told the family that Wangchuk’s potassium level had fallen to a life-threatening 2.9 but did not disclose the figure in its public health bulletin. She said an independent test put the level at 3.5, which she described as normal.

DW