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The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) connected Thursday (June 4, 2026) said the reported vulnerability of JEE (Advanced) 2026 campaigner information owed to a unreality retention configuration contented successful the results portal showed however "incompetent" radical were moving the country's acquisition strategy and integer infrastructure.
The leaders of the campaign, which began connected societal media and went connected to instrumentality a beingness of its own, besides appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to instantly sack Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, saying helium had failed to guarantee accountability successful the acquisition sector.
Addressing a property league successful New Delhi, CJP leaders said the incidental had raised caller concerns astir the information of pupil information and the government's handling of introspection systems.
CJP spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka, an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and the London School of Economics who was appointed the campaign's spokesperson connected Wednesday, said the vulnerability of campaigner accusation reflected the mediocre authorities of cybersecurity safeguards.
"Names, telephone numbers and images of astir 2 lakh students got exposed. In a state that has produced techies starring apical exertion companies crossed the world, the acquisition curate and the authorities are truthful incompetent that they are incapable to tally basal systems securely," Mr. Ranka said.
"The acquisition curate is wholly incompetent. He has tally the acquisition strategy into the ground. We entreaty to the Prime Minister to sack Dharmendra Pradhan immediately. This is astir the aboriginal of our students and a batch is astatine stake," helium added.
He besides said nationalist institutions required individuals with technological temper and method competence.
Questioning the effect of IIT Roorkee, which conducted the exam this twelvemonth arsenic its nodal body, Mr. Ranka said the institute's assertion that the exposed information was successful a "read-only" format did not diminish the seriousness of the issue.
"IIT Roorkee said the information was read-only. Is this a joke? You are saying it could beryllium work but not edited. One basal IIT portal cannot beryllium tally securely. Sixteen, 17 and 18-year-olds are discovering vulnerabilities and alerting CERT. This shows the level of competence of the radical moving the system," helium said.
On Tuesday (June 2, 2026), IIT Roorkee acknowledged a unreality retention configuration contented linked to the JEE (Advanced) 2026 results portal aft a teenage cybersecurity researcher reported that campaigner records and admit-card documents were accessible without authentication.
The institute said corrective enactment was being taken connected precedence and maintained that the exposed information was successful read-only mode, ruling retired immoderate anticipation of alteration of records.
Mr. Ranka demanded that the authorities disclose details of each information vulnerability incidents and cybersecurity lapses nether its watch.
"We privation to cognize wherever this country's information has landed and who each person entree to it. Details of each specified breaches, particularly those that could interaction nationalist security, should beryllium made public," helium said.
Mr. Ranka sought to dispel speculation that the CJP's projected June 6 agitation could crook convulsive and reiterated its committedness to peaceful protest.
"Rumours are being dispersed astir violence. The Cockroach Janata Party calls for peaceful and antiauthoritarian protests successful enactment with instrumentality and order. We impulse radical to shun violence," helium said.
The property league came a time aft the outfit held its archetypal media enactment astatine the Constitution Club of India, wherever it said it was unfastened to dialog with some the authorities and the Opposition implicit its demands portion continuing to question Mr. Pradhan's resignation.
CJP laminitis Abhijeet Dipke, who is pursuing higher acquisition successful the United States, is expected to get successful Delhi connected June 6 and question support for a protestation astatine Jantar Mantar. The enactment has said clime activistic Sonam Wangchuk volition besides articulation the projected demonstration.
The CJP traces its origins to a contention sparked by remarks made by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant past month, erstwhile helium referred to definite individuals arsenic "cockroaches" and "parasites" during a tribunal hearing.
The remarks triggered a backlash connected societal media, with CJP laminitis Dipke and his supporters appropriating the word "cockroach" arsenic a governmental awesome and launching what began arsenic an online younker question earlier evolving into an organised campaign.
