The All India Students’ Association (AISA) has lent support to the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) proposed September 5 protest march in Delhi, demanding withdrawal of FIRs against students and an inquiry into alleged pellet and bullet firing during earlier demonstrations.
The Abhijeet Dipke-led CJP has announced that it would resume peaceful mobilisation after a month-long pause following negotiations with the Centre. “The government must fully withdraw all cases. “From AISA, we are seeing that this is a matter which still remains unresolved. “We will also wait and watch for what the police say. Ms. “Exactly what this mobilisation will articulate remains to be seen. Bora added.
“The issues that have prompted the youth mobilisation remain unresolved, with cases still pending against students despite the government’s earlier commitment to withdraw them,: AISA president Neha Bora told PTI on Wednesday (August 26, 2026). The proposed march on September 5, which falls on Teachers’ Day, is to be led by families of students who died by suicide following the cancellation of the NEET exam and the subsequent re-test, and those who were allegedly subjected to police excesses during the July agitation. ALSO WATCH CJP announces Delhi march on September 5 over pending promises to students On the Delhi Police saying they had not received a request for the September 5 march so far and that any request would be reviewed, Ms.
There should be an inquiry into the firing of pellets and bullets, and the government must be fully prepared to take accountability for the same,” the Left-wing student leader said. The government itself had committed to withdrawing the cases, but still this is a major issue where students who protested against the government have cases against them,” she said. Bora said AISA would wait for the police’s response. There have been many protests in the past without police permission being granted, and we are those people who stand by the democratic principle that protests do not need permission,” she said. Bora said AISA’s support extended beyond the withdrawal of cases, covering issues affecting students across the country, including centralisation of examinations and agitations at the state, university and college levels. We are continuing our campaign since the end of the Jantar Mantar movement on the issues that are affecting students across the country,” she said. “Whether it be protest resulting from centralisation like the NTA and NEET exams, or even state and universities/college level agitations, our solidarity and our support is there with every protest demanding rights and accountability,” Ms.
Ms. Bora, who also took part in the protest against the alleged recruitment exam irregularities in Jharkhand. “Ideally, the government of a democracy should listen to people who are coming to have a dialogue with it.
Because the government had made dialogue with ordinary people difficult, bora, who was on a hunger strike for 23 days along with climate activist Sonam Wangchuk in Delhi over the NEET paper leak last month, claimed the protests became necessary.
“The entire point of why students and youth had come out on the streets and why we came out on the streets was that this government has made it impossible for the common people to have a dialogue with them,” she said. “We stand with any democratic, secular, progressive agitation or protest that demands accountability from this government which refuses to listen,” asserted Ms. On the participation of families affected by the NEET controversy, the AISA chief said the government should have recognised their concerns when the agitation started. “This government should have realised at the beginning of our agitation that students affected by NEET, and families who have lost their loved ones because of the government’s failure, had come out to force their voices to be heard,” she said. “If this government is not willing to listen to the affected, then it only shows their inhumanity,” alleged the JNU PhD scholar, whose student outfit is affiliated with the CPI (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. Asked about the government’s likely response to the renewed mobilisation, Bora said a democratic government should engage with people seeking dialogue. What will be this government’s response is not something I can say,” she said.
