New Delhi: Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan on Friday directed the police chiefs of all states and union territories to take preventive measures to stop members and supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) from assembling in the national capital for the protest demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar.
In a letter sent a day before the planned protest, Mohan said the CJP intended to defy the prohibitory orders in place under BNSS Section 163 and enter Delhi through multiple entry points.
“I write to draw your immediate attention to the grave law & order and public order implications arising from a proposed mass mobilisation by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, scheduled for 10.10.2026,” Mohan wrote to the directors general of police (DGPs).
He said the Delhi Police had rejected the CJP’s application to hold the protest at Jantar Mantar, making any such assembly unauthorised. “…There are credible intelligence inputs that, despite the formal prohibition communicated to the CJP, the CJP and its supporting parties intend to disobey statutory orders and attempt an unauthorised entry from various States/UT of India into Delhi to disturb public peace and order,” he wrote.
Mohan called for real-time intelligence gathering by state and UT police forces and the sharing of inputs with one another and intelligence agencies to ensure coordinated action.
“To pre-empt any breach of public tranquillity and to safeguard critical infrastructure, all States and UTs are hereby directed to coordinate with the Delhi Police and operationalise immediate preventive measures under the broad statutory and operational parameters, within the framework of the law,” he said.
The letter came as Mohan approved a Delhi Police proposal to suspend mobile internet services within a 4-km radius of the Kartavya Bhawan-Janpath crossing in the Lutyens’ Delhi area from 10 pm on Friday to 10 pm on Saturday.
“The Union Home Secy has considered our request for suspending internet services under sub-rule (1) of Rule 3 of the Telecommunications (Temporary Suspension of Services) Rules, 2024 read with Section 20(2)(b) of the Telecommunications Act 2023 to suspend mobile internet services (all technologies) at and around a radius of 04 kms from Janpath-Kartavya Path Crossing from 2200 Hrs. of 09/10/2026 to 2200 Hrs. of 10/10/2026 and has conveyed the authorization vide order No. 22016/12/2019-CIS-IV dated 09.10.2026,” a Delhi Police Special Cell officer wrote to telecom operators, including Reliance Jio, Vodafone-Idea, Airtel and MTNL.
As preparation for the protest, the Ministry of Home Affairs has made 221 companies of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), comprising around 23,000 personnel, available to the Delhi Police for deployment from 8 to 12 October.
Delhi Metro services and train arrivals at two major railway stations—New Delhi and Hazrat Nizamuddin—are also being curtailed in view of the protest.
(Edited by Chingkheinganbi Mayengbam)