New Delhi, July 22 -- A day after they were struck with batons and hit with tear gas by the Delhi Police as they attempted to march to the Parliament, thousands of undeterred protesters thronged to Jantar Mantar protest site and the arterial roads around it. By 8 pm on Tuesday, it was bursting at its seams. Tolstoy Marg was full of protesters raising slogans demanding resignation of the Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and a part of Sansad Marg was filled with young protesters. By evening, security arrangements had been beefed up in the area and Delhi Police had added three layers of barricades on Sansad Marg, near Parliament Street police station. Every few minutes, police took to speakers to warn protesters to maintain law and order and remain in the designated protest area. Volunteers assigned by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), which is at the centre of this movement, made a human chain to deter protesters from spilling onto the streets any further. The air reverberated with slogans of "Dilli Police Murdabad" and "We want justice." Multiple people could be seen wearing bandages and several said they had come back to the site after being released by police. "The police detained me and 10 other people at around 5.30 pm on Monday from Tolstoy Marg, and took us to Mandir Marg station at 6.30 pm. While they were very polite with us, they made a case against us under sections 126 and 170 of the BNSS, without telling us. I had to pay a Rs.5,000 release bond, and was released only at 5:00pm today," said Sameer, 22, a student. Small groups of five and ten also reached outside Delhi Police headquarters in the evening after CJP announced on X that it will hold a protest there. At Jantar Mantar, many said they had come after watching videos of violence against the protesters. Among those who met protesters at Jantar Mantar in the daytime were former Delhi chief minister Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal who arrived with senior leaders Atishi and Saurabh Bhardwaj, and NCP (SCP) leaders Sharad Pawar and Supriya Sule. The numbers at Jantar Mantar on Tuesday grew slowly. At 6 am, only a handful of supporters were scattered across the protest venue as light rain dampened the ground. By 8 am, there was a slight shift in the atmosphere after CJP founder Abhijit Dipke and spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka arrived, meeting students and volunteers before making their way to the partially damaged platform. Tuesday morning was spent rearranging all that was broken - bamboo poles were re-erected, chairs fixed and wiped clean. By noon, Jantar Mantar had transformed once again into a bustling protest venue. Hundreds of supporters packed the narrow stretch, raising slogans against the alleged NEET-UG 2026 paper leak, demanding accountability and calling for the resignation of Pradhan. "We are going to continue our protest till the government comes here to meet us and agree with our demands. We will not start another march yet but are working out a strategy. We just want our supporters to show up here in large numbers," Dipke told HT....