India, July 20 -- "India was brutally assaulted today," the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) said on Monday evening, following a day of police brutality on students marching towards the Parliament.

The 'Chalo Sansad' march, organised to protest examination irregularities and demand the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, met a wall of heavily deployed security personnel as protesters attempted to reach Parliament on the opening day of the monsoon session.

It began as a peaceful march carrying flowers for police personnel, in keeping with the CJP's appeal for a peaceful demonstration. By late afternoon, the main protest stage at Jantar Mantar had been entirely dismantled by the cops.

Scattered among the debris lay som...