New Delhi, July 24 -- The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday dismissed allegations of foreign funding to the Abhijeet Dipke-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), which is leading students protest at Jantar Mantar and elsewhere in the country.

"I have no information to share on this issue with you," MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said during a press briefing in response to a question on funding of CJP protest.

The MEA reaction came after Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey alleged that anti-India powers were behind the Jantar Mantar protest.A similar assertion was also made by BJP's IT Cell chief Amit Malviya. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had also termed the Jantar Mantar protesters as 'Dahshadgards' (extremists). ...