{"id":701690,"date":"2026-07-20T14:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701690\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:35:09","slug":"jantar-mantar-what-is-the-gen-z-cjp-protest-in-delhi-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701690\/","title":{"rendered":"Jantar Mantar: What is the Gen Z CJP protest in Delhi about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CJP is mostly protesting over issues they have with India&#8217;s education system. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) is India&#8217;s main entrance exam for admission to medical colleges across the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nearly 2.28 million candidates sat the exam on 3 May, having studied for months &#8211; in some cases years &#8211; for the notoriously difficult paper. However, days later, it was cancelled after allegations that the questions had been leaked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was a big blow to aspirants, who had to resit the exam under tight security weeks later. Anger over this was one of the reasons the CJP began its protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It and families have also alleged that some 20 students died by suicide due to distress after the exam was cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NEET exam was also hit by a similar scandal in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CJP is calling for the education system to be overhauled, with greater accountability over alleged exam paper leaks and the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the treatment of Wangchuk on Monday, CJP leader Abhijeet Dipke also called on Modi to resign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CJP is mostly protesting over issues they have with India&#8217;s education system. The National Eligibility cum Entrance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-701690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}