CJP founder Abhijit Dipke Activist Sonam Wangchuk at Jantar Mantar throughout day 17 of the indefinite starvation strike on July 14, 2026. Photograph: X/@abhijeet_dipke
The seventeenth day of protests at Jantar Mantar on Tuesday (July 14, 2026) demanding Union Training Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation noticed bigger crowds than Monday (July 13, 2026), following an rising variety of voices urging activist Sonam Wangchuk to finish his starvation strike.
Mr. Wangchuk has misplaced 8.5 kilograms, the Cockroach Janta Social gathering (CJP) mentioned.
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A rising refrain of Opposition voices urged Mr. Wangchuk, 59, to finish his quick. Actors Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak Shah, economist Jayati Ghosh, author Arundhati Roy, and a number of professors from the Jawaharlal Nehru College, both despatched in a written petition or confirmed up in individual to attraction to Mr. Wangchuk.
As issues develop over Mr. Wangchuk’s well being, the group swelled on Tuesday (July 14, 2026), rising threefold in a single day. Over 1,800 “writers, teachers, social activists and different involved residents” signed on to a web based petition asking Mr. Wangchuk to finish his quick.Â
Three college students with the All India College students’ Affiliation (AISA), affiliated with the Communist Social gathering of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, ended their quick, with one being hospitalised on Monday. Three different college students stay, and have vowed to quick till the conclusion of the starvation strike a technique or one other.
Attraction to Wangchuk
Samajwadi Social gathering president Akhilesh Yadav appealed to Mr. Wangchuk to finish his quick in a publish on X.
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra mentioned on X, “The federal government doesn’t care about your life or that of crores of youth. However your life issues to us. Please name off the quick and proceed the struggle.”
Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee spoke with Mr. Wangchuk over the cellphone and “urged him to remain robust,” Abhijeet Dipke, CJP’s founder, mentioned on X. Omi Vaidya, the American actor who performed Chatur Ramalingam in 3 Idiots, whose protagonist is alleged to be primarily based on Mr. Wangchuk, additionally urged in a video that the quick come to an finish.
Mr. Dipke mentioned on Tuesday morning that Mr. Wangchuk rebuffed calls to finish his quick. ““Don’t ask me to finish my quick,” Mr. Dipke quoted the activist as saying in a publish on X. “Ask the govt.. why they received’t also have a dialogue.”
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Name to political leaders
The CJP invited Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi to the protest, together with nineteen different political leaders, together with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay. Many of the leaders haven’t spoken on the protest. “We once more sincerely attraction to the leaders to maintain apart their politics and lend their voice to the voice of the younger,” CJP spokesperson Saurav Das mentioned.
Two former Delhi Chief Ministers have spoken up on Mr. Wangchuk’s quick, Arvind Kejriwal and Aatishi. The latter visited the protest web site and met with the activist on Monday. Mr. Kejriwal mentioned that he supported the CJP’s calls for, and urged Mr. Wangchuk to finish his quick.
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