New Delhi, October 2026 : All India Students’ Association (AISA) national president Neha Bora was detained by Delhi Police on Friday, shortly after Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder and convener Abhijeet Dipke was detained while heading to Central Park in Connaught Place to participate in a proposed ‘Tiranga Assembly’.
Bora was detained near Mandi House along with AISA workers and members of other Left-wing organisations while they were on their way to join the CJP’s ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ protest. The demonstration was called by Dipke, who had urged people to gather at Central Park and wave the national flag in protest against the detention and jailing of CJP co-conveners Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka.
The developments came amid a dispute over the proposed gathering, with CJP supporters asserting their right to peacefully display the national flag and police citing restrictions imposed at the venue.
Earlier on Friday, Delhi Police had issued two notices to Dipke, asking him to refrain from holding the assembly at Central Park. Officials said the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) had not granted permission for the event and prohibitory orders were in force. Police warned that legal action could be initiated if the restrictions were violated.
One notice was issued by the New Delhi district authorities under the Delhi Police Act, directing people not to visit Central Park in view of restrictions under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).
The second notice, issued by the South West Delhi authorities, referred to previous preventive action against Dipke, Ranka and Das. According to officials, the three had been detained at the airport and subsequently produced before a court. They had then been bound down under a legal undertaking requiring them to refrain from causing public disturbances for one year.
Meanwhile, CJP spokesperson Mehar Pasricha defended the protest, saying its central message was that citizens should be free to decide where they unfurl the Tricolour.
“Our main goal today is to emphasise that it is our right to decide where we unfurl the Tricolour. No one should dictate where we can wave our national flag; we will do it ourselves,” Pasricha said.
She described the national flag as a longstanding symbol of patriotism and objected to restrictions on its display. Pasricha alleged that two CJP members had been detained at Jantar Mantar and jailed simply for waving the national flag.
“But we are not backing down,” she said, adding that CJP volunteers, student organisations and members of the public had joined the protest because they believed citizens should not be told where they could or could not display the Tricolour.
The detention of Bora and Dipke intensified the confrontation between the protesters and the authorities. While the demonstrators framed their action as a peaceful assertion of the right to display the national flag, police maintained that the proposed assembly could not proceed at Central Park because permission had not been granted and prohibitory orders remained in force.
