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Power counts on the crowd to thin out, for the fast to break, and for young bodies to give in to exhaustion. It has all the time in the world. Does the CJP? Watch this week's column for ThePrint by Karanjeet Kaur

CJP-led protests escalated following the police crackdown during ‘Sansad Chalo’ Marg on Monday this week. 
 
ThePrint’s team of reporters, editors, as well as photo & video journalists has been getting us reports, facts & the ground truth. 
 
In this special edition of #CutTheClutter, Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta speaks to ThePrint team  that has been reporting from the ground. 
 

Delhi witnessed protests led by the CJP or Cockroach Janta Party. Protesters clashed with Delhi police, while marching to the Parliament. And, Police resorted to lathicharge, tear gas. Meanwhile, activist Sonam Wangchuk refused to end his hunger strike. #CutTheClutter looks at the root of these protests — Successive NEET paper leaks, unemployment and distrust in education system. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta explains what fuelled these protests in Delhi, and implications of Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike. Senior Associate Editor Ananya Bhardwaj joins in to explain what probe into NEET 2026 paper leak has revealed.

Parliament Monsoon Session, scheduled to begin on Monday may affirm India’s evolution into a one-party state. There’s a flip side — it will also open up the possibility for a second party to rise, if it could sweep up the detritus of the vote banks of regional parties the BJP is currently decimating or subsuming. This incredible win for the BJP will, ironically, also open up the space needed for the Congress to rediscover its mojo as the BJP’s only pan-national challenger. Watch this week’s #NationalInterest with ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta.

Over 100 scientists have left ISRO in one year & following the spate of resignations, the Centre has tightened rules around exits and voluntary retirement.
#CutTheClutter Episode 1865 looks at reasons behind this exodus, brewing crises in ISRO and why these point to challenges for India's space programme. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta also details the private sector boom in our nation's space sector, and some of the companies doing noteworthy work in the area.

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No protest movement in the Modi era is ever going to have it as easy as the Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal movement did with UPA-2, explains Vir Sanghvi in this week's #SharpEdge