Now that the Cockroach Janta Party has moved out of the protest site at Jantar Mantar after education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation, New Delhi Municipal Council stepped in to clear out the waste from the area.
Event Context
With hundreds of thousands of people gathered at a site every single day, the accumulation of waste was not unprecedented. Over the past few days, the volunteers and some protesters at the site were seen picking up the waste from roads and pavements in and around the protest site.
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Team Analysis
NDMC Vice Chairperson Kuljeet Singh Chahal said that officers and sanitation teams were on the streets to ensure the area was cleaned and restored. “All the NDMC officers are out on the streets. The protest has ended, and people have almost left. By morning, we believe we will clean this entire area–Tolstoy Marg, Jantar Mantar, Sansad Marg, Jai Singh Marg, the CP area,” Chahal told news agency ANI.
The lanes which were packed with people from across the country not less than 24 hours back are now deserted. Morning visuals from Jantar Mantar show a couple of people sleeping on roadside, cops on duty, and police barricades taking up the space on the roads.
Congress Seva Dal workers also joined in on Sunday morning to begin a cleanliness drive at Jantar Mantar after the CJP’s 36-day-long agitation was called off.
The CJP’s primary demand was the resignation of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over NEET-UG paper leak. The demand was met on Saturday after Pradhan tendered his resignation.
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This was historic — the first time a Union minister in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s three terms had to resign due to a street protest.
Pralhad Joshi, Union minister of consumer affairs, was given the additional charge of education ministry shortly after on Saturday.
Since the internet was cut at the protest site, the news of Pradhan’s resignation trickled in slowly at the protest site. Within minutes, the entire area erupted into celebrations with dance, hugs, tears, and chants of “Inquilab Zindabad” and “Bharat Mata ki Jai”.
Now, less than a day later, the site that witnessed and hosted the protest is deserted and getting ready to welcoming its old habitants — vendors, stray dogs, traffic — back.
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The CJP, founded by Abhijeet Dipke, called off its protest after it said on Saturday that all their demands had been met and held a press conference with union Ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh.
Soon after, by Saturday night, the NDMC came in to conduct a midnight cleanliness drive at the vacated protest site.
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