RSS’s Indresh Kumar brands CJP ‘agency of foreign forces’

Speaking to reporters in Jammu on Friday, senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar drew a sharp line between activist Sonam Wangchuk and the Cockroach Janta Party leading the Jantar Mantar sit-in. The CJP, he said, is working as an “agency of foreign forces,” and the movement had been “taken over by foreign forces.” He urged young people at the protest site “not become puppets or agents of those who betray and deceive the nation,” and asked Wangchuk to “keep his agitation Indian.”

Hours later in New Delhi, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal faced questions about allegations — raised by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey and BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya — that anti-India powers were bankrolling the Jantar Mantar protest. “I have no information to share on this issue with you,” Jaiswal said at the MEA’s weekly briefing, Livemint reported.

The twin statements mark the clearest public clash yet between the Sangh establishment and the student-led agitation that began over the NEET-UG paper leak and has widened into a demand for Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. Pradhan had earlier labelled the protesters “dahshadgards” (extremists), according to Livemint’s account of the political run-up.

What we can verify

• Indresh Kumar’s remarks were made in Jammu on 24 July 2026 and reported by The Indian Express. He described Wangchuk and CJP as separate entities, called CJP an “agency of foreign forces,” and said “internal and external forces” were backing the agitation to spoil “positive politics.”
• MEA response came the same day. Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said he had “no information to share” when asked about foreign-funding claims tied to the CJP protest. Livemint carried the quote from the weekly briefing.
• Prior BJP allegations: Livemint notes that Nishikant Dubey and Amit Malviya had publicly alleged foreign backing for the Jantar Mantar sit-in; Pradhan’s “dahshadgards” remark is part of that same reported political framing.
• Wangchuk’s status: Wangchuk ended a 26-day hunger strike on 23 July at Medanta Hospital, Gurugram, after meeting Union ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh. He has backed CJP demands but is organisationally separate from the party — a distinction Kumar himself stressed.

What remains unverified

• Actual foreign funding. Neither the MEA nor any investigative agency has placed public evidence of foreign money flowing to CJP or the Jantar Mantar protest. Jaiswal’s line is a non-confirmation, not a documented denial with files attached.
• “Agency of foreign forces.” Kumar offered no documentary proof in the remarks reported by Indian Express; the charge remains a political allegation.
• Scope of “internal and external forces.” The phrase is broad and unsourced beyond Kumar’s statement.

The episode shows how a paper-leak protest has become a national political flashpoint — pulling in the RSS, ruling-party voices, and the foreign ministry inside a single news day — while the core funding claim still lacks public evidence on the record.