Raju William

journalist/political commentator

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

INTERESTING: ALL news channels are rightly giving live coverage to the Jharkhand student protests and march to the Assembly — an important story that deserves attention. But why did most channels largely black out the build-up to, and the July 20 march in Central Delhi, until the events of that day made coverage unavoidable? Too much selectivity in what becomes “news” depending on who is in power? 🙏

[Ashutosh Ranka @AshutoshRanka]

Explosive revelation:

CJP received all of its funding from PM Cares Fund.

Requesting the agencies to audit the PM Cares Fund and find out the truth.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

🚨#Important

I have filed a formal complaint with the Delhi Police against those who unlawfully entered my residence in my absence, seeking charges of criminal house-trespass, criminal intimidation, defamation, and criminal conspiracy.

Such acts of intimidation will neither silence me nor cower me down. When the time comes, they will pay.

Thank you to my lawyers @_ayushrivastava and Krishnesh Bapat for doing this at such short notice. Youth will prevail! ✊🏻

[Ashutosh Ranka @AshutoshRanka]

CJP will do everything in its capacity to reverse this trend.

Every child in India should have access to free, world-class quality education.

Good education should not be a privilege. It should be a fundamental right.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

This ought to be very clear. The Parliament of India is ours. It is the people’s. The people of India, its children, were brutally beaten up, some blinded for life, by the Delhi Police and the RAF which is under the CRPF a central force.

Hence, their boss, Home Minister Amit Shah ought to answer for their crimes. Why is he not appearing before the Parliament for the last two weeks and answering for his force’s draconian brutality? After all, accountability ought to be fixed. Why is the Speaker Om Birla unable to compel the government to answer? It is his duty to remain impartial. Speakers that are coloured and politically biased ought to be made answerable too.

It is not a radical demand of the MPs to hold Amit Shah answerable before the Parliament for the Black Day that is 20th July 2026. It is a legitimate demand that should be IMMEDIATELY met so our Parliament functions.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Delhi: On FIR against Noida girl for using abusive language against PM Narendra Modi during protest at Jantar Mantar, Cockroach Janta Party Chief Spokesperson Saurav Das says, "One might condemn the use of abusive language during a protest. However, using the criminal justice machinery to target and harass them through the police is absolutely unjustifiable. Since when has using abusive language become a criminal offense in this country? People use such language in everyday life all the time. 50% of the MPs in the Lok Sabha face criminal charges, including heinous ones like rape, murder, and dacoity, yet no action is taken against them. You simply want to single them out and make an example of them. This is utterly condemnable. I once again appeal to the government and its police machinery to stop harassing the youth. Stop targeting young people in this way, and leave this girl alone. Such misuse of the police force in these kinds of cases is completely unacceptable..."

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Irony just died again. The cleanest man in Indian politics did not need an SC certificate of his integrity. Instead it is those who sought to implicate him in these charges who ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

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[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

The Supreme Court cannot be politicised for government’s gains. Its orders cannot be weaponised to achieve those gains. A solemn guarantee was given before the nation. Those ought to be honoured. All FIRs ought to be withdrawn. If criminals roamed, police must apply for cancellation of bail in their old cases. Must also answer why they were roaming so freely in society. But government can’t use this excuse to pursue FIRs so it can later target genuine protesters. If given this leeway, the government will, of course, use it.

The youth will NOT accept this at any cost! We will stand with each and every protester who stood up for each other’s future!

@Cockroachisback

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

🚨URGENT STATEMENT🚨

The interim order passed by the Supreme Court of India in the batch of PILs related to the CJP protest must ring alarm bells across the country. In particular, Direction No. 4, which permits governments to proceed with existing FIRs and carry out investigations, raises extremely serious concerns.

This direction stands in direct contradiction to the solemn assurance and guarantee extended by the Government of India to the youth of this nation on 25 July 2026, namely, that the FIRs would be withdrawn and that no protester would be directly or indirectly targeted for participating in the peaceful movement.

It was on the strength of that solemn assurance, and in complete good faith, that the Cockroach Janta Party called off its nationwide protest.

We now have a credible apprehension that the Government of India and BJP-ruled states may seek to use and weaponise this order of the Bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant to continue FIRs against individual protesters and subject them to great harassment. This was precisely our concern from day one: that courts could be used, directly or indirectly, to achieve political ends by targeting peaceful dissent.

Equally troubling is the fact that the interim order was not opposed by the government's lawyers, despite the Central Government being fully aware that talks/assurances with the CJP had continued until as recently as late last night and that a solemn agreement had already been arrived at on 25 July.

The court's uninformed order is therefore wholly unacceptable.

A solemn public assurance given to thousands of young students and protesters cannot be diluted, undermined, or rendered meaningless through subsequent legal developments, in a surreptitious manner. It only results in breach of public trust.

In any event, nothing in the interim order prevents the Government of India or the concerned BJP/NDA ruled State Governments from withdrawing the FIRs or deciding not to proceed against peaceful protesters, like done by Bihar and Assam governments. The power to withdraw or not pursue such cases continues to rest with the executive. The court has not mandated that governments must definitely continue with the FIRs. That would be a deliberate misreading. The Government must not invoke the Court’s order as a justification for reneging on the commitment it made on 25 July.

We therefore demand that the Government of India and the concerned BJP/NDA State Governments immediately place the terms of this solemn assurance before the Supreme Court in the pending proceedings so that there is complete transparency regarding the commitments already made to the youth of this country and so that the court can withdraw and make an informed order in the future.

The youth of India entered into this understanding in good faith. That good faith must not be betrayed. Institutions of constitutional importance must never be politicised and weaponised to not honour the guarantees.

The deadline for the Government of India to honour its guarantees expires today. We once again call upon it to fulfil every commitment it made: withdraw the FIRs, ensure that no protester is subjected to future punitive action, and honour both the letter and the spirit of the assurance that brought an end to the protest.

Failing this, and as previously declared, the Cockroach Janta Party will have no option but to resume its nationwide protest to protect the students and young protesters who stood up not for themselves alone, but for the future of this nation. A government that breaks its word cannot expect the youth to remain silent. If the guarantees are dishonoured, the streets of India will once again become the voice of its young.

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

CJP TURNS THE CELEBRATION ATTACK BACK ON BJP 🚨

SIDHANT: Why was CJP dancing and cutting cake?

ASHUTOSH 🔥: After 37 days and a victory unseen in 12 years, our volunteers earned that celebration. Critics do not understand Gen Z.

SAURAV 🎯: We celebrated accountability. BJP MPs chanted “Pradhan Zindabad” after 20-plus student deaths. Ask them what they were celebrating.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

#Important: 1 AM update.

Hours after our press conference, Government’s representatives met us. The meeting lasted for 2-3 hours. They shared copies of the Bihar and Assam notifications guaranteeing FIR withdrawals, no action in future, and release of all detainees and arrestees.

They’ve reiterated their promise of releasing guarantee-notifications by union government and other BJP/NDA states by tomorrow. Hopefully, the agreed upon language shall be used.

No protester will be left alone. We are all in this together! ✊🏻 @whattalawyer

@Cockroachisback

[Raju William @William2Raju]

@anandnikita Gotta see after so long... Wish u all the best

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Delhi Police is harassing not just protesters, but also their friends and relatives.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | LoP, Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi says, "...Students have three demands, and these are not negotiable demands... The first demand is that the Education Minister, who is corrupt, incompetent, and misaligned, has to be sacked... There's some talk going on in Mr. Modi's cabinet that the solution is to move Dharmendra Pradhan from education to some other ministry. This is not acceptable to the students of India. It is not acceptable to anybody. The reason is that Pradhan is a symbol of corruption and of what has happened to the future of India's children. He is a symbol of the destruction of the most valuable thing that this country has, which is our students and their future. And so there is going to be no conversation about Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan being moved here, moved there, put behind, forward, nothing. Dharmendra Pradhan has to be sacked."

[Raju William @William2Raju]

@ANI Correct

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

INTERESTING: Suddenly, celebrities from different fields are expressing concern over the state of our education system and solidarity with students—in strikingly similar language. GOOD. 👍
But will they now walk the talk? Many of India’s A++ have educated their own children abroad. How many will use their influence to help fix the system here, instead of merely posting about it?

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Wow! Our Honourable Courts have time to hear whether CJP is foreign funded (with ZERO evidence of this) but no time to watch videos of Monday’s violence against students? Said this before: STOP THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES, YUVA KI AAWAZ SUNO! 🙏

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

भारत के छात्रों और प्रधानमंत्री को मेरा सीधा संदेश...

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

It’s one of those rare days when Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi is front, back and centre of almost every news bulletin. And for a change, it’s the government—not the Opposition—that is on the defensive, answering the questions.🙏