The editorial Page: Anna Hazare to Sonam Wangchuk, a tale of two fasts — and a democracy 6 TUeSDAy, JUly 21, 2026 JournAliSm of CourAge ahmeDabD, late cIty, 16 PaGeS ₹5.00 l www.indianexpress.com Da I ly f r o m : a h m e Da b a D , c h a n D I Ga r h , D e l h I , j a I P U r , Ko l K ata , l U c K n o w , m U m b a I , n aG P U r , Pat n a , P U n e , va D o Da r a as monsoon sessIon beGIns, ProTesTs on sTreeTs ouTsIDe FInD eCho In boTh houses oF ParLIamenT Protesters storm heart of Delhi, police use lathis and tear gas to stop march Russia-Ukraine war: Four Indian sailors among 10 killed as missile hits ship shubhajit roy & shaju Philip Delhi Police personnel disperse the protesters as they attempt to march towards the House, at Parliament Street, on Monday. Praveen Khanna CJP submits demands to Centre; protest will continue, say Wangchuk, Dipke Pragynesh, sakshi Chand, Devansh mittal, Drishti jain, alok singh, Tabshir shams & nirbhay Thakur New Delhi, July 20 tens oF thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of education Minister dharmendra Pradhan took over the heart of lutyens’s delhi on Monday, breaking through police barricades and attempting to march to Parliament on the first day of the Monsoon session. While the main group of CockroachJantaParty(CJP)activistswereconfinedbypoliceto the vicinity of Jantar Mantar, verylargenumbers—estimated tobe50,000ormore—ofmostly young men and women challenged the security forces at dozens of locations across the new delhi police district. Police and anti-riot forces responded with lathicharge, tear gas, and water cannon Nadda meets CJP team, but Govt signals: Will listen, won’t commit Liz mathew New Delhi, July 20 AFteR neARly three weeks of protests at Jantar Mantar by the Cockroach Janta Party, headlined by the hunger strike of activist sonam Wangchuk, the government finally swung into action Monday, with union Minister J P nadda meeting CJP representatives. outliningthegovernment’s approach, even as thousands of protestersmarchedtowardsParliament demanding education MinisterdharmendraPradhan’s resignation, a senior Minister asad rehman New Delhi, July 20 CJP members Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka with Union Health Minister J P Nadda in New Delhi, Monday. anI toldTheIndianExpressthatthe protesters have been given a hearing but there has been no Sons injured, a mother breaks down: ‘Attack on country’s children’ commitmentontheirdemands. “the protest is over,” he »ConTInueD on PaGe 2 118personnel injured,70 protesters detained,says DelhiPolice lFarmers From Punjab are scheduled to hold a rally in protest against the proposed India-US trade deal at Kisan Ghat in Delhi. nation page 9 In CapItal, omar leads pusH for J&k’s stateHood As tHe anger over paper leaks spilled onto the streets of centraldelhionMondayandledto pitchedbattlesbetweenthepolice and protesters demanding the resignation of union education Minister dharmendra Pradhan, the opposition targeted the Centre and called for a discussion on the matter in Parliament. the demand for Pradhan’sresignationfoundan echoinbothHouses,despiteattempts by senior BJP leaders »ConTInueD on PaGe 2 E. explained opposition’s hopes In the current demonstrations, some Opposition leaders see an echo of the Anna Hazare movement. The BJP benefitted from Hazare’s campaign against corruption, eventually unseating the Congress from power in 2014. That is the sort of impact the Opposition is hoping to achieve this time too. editorial page Can’t Have sabka vIsHwas wItH latHI and tear gas page 6 inside pages 4, 11 aHmedabad feels rIpples of delHI protest »ConTInueD on PaGe 2 happening today Opp backs protesters, sees chance in ‘organic anger’ against Govt Injured protesters Devan Rathi (right) and Gaurav (top left) with their mother Santosh at Gurdwara Bangla Sahib. vIDheeSha KUntamalla Vidheesha Kuntamalla New Delhi, July 20 At ARound 4 pm, amid the clamourofslogans,ambulance sirens and exploding teargas shells, hundreds of protesters streamed out of the gates of an iconic gurdwara in the heart of delhi — their refuge on a tumultuous afternoon. someclutcheddamphandkerchiefs to their faces to ward offtheteargas,othersheldhalf- finished plastic water bottles theyhadhurriedlyfilledinside, and a few carried placards that read: “We are with sonam Wangchuk.” only minutes earlier, many of them had rushed into gurdwaraBanglasahibtoescapethe police lathi-charge and chaos unfoldingonParliamentstreet, where thousands of people had joined the CJP-led march to demand the resignation of »ConTInueD on PaGe 2 An injured Delhi Police personnel near Jantar Mantar. Praveen Khanna business as usual By eP UNNy Pragynesh New Delhi, July 20 tHe delHi Police said “more than 118 police personnel”, includingsomeseniorofficers,sustained injuries as protesters attacked them with “stones and other objects” and “resorted to large-scaleviolence”onMonday. “during the scuffle, around 60protesterswerealsoreported to (have been)... injured,” it said »ConTInueD on PaGe 2 In hot pursuit of catechu LATE GOAL GIVES SPAIN wORLD TITLE, LEAVES ARGENTINA DISTRAUGHT smugglers, Gujarat RFO As curtains fall, Spain have final killed in vehicle pile-up say: ‘Huge feeling of liberation’ l express news service express at Surat, July 20 A RAnge FoRest officer (RFo) from tapi district was killed in a crash involving multiple vehicles near songadh check post on Monday morning while chasing a suspected khair wood smuggler. one of the two persons in the vehicle carrying the prohibited timber was also killed in the crash. the driver of the timber vehicle, Hitesh Vasava, was booked for rash and negligent driving and arrested late World Cup sandip G New Jersey, July 20 Tapi RFO Vikas Desai in the evening. thecatechulogswereallegedlybeingsmuggledfromaforest in tapi to navapur in Maharashtra, said a forest officer. »ConTInueD on PaGe 2 A sWARM of raging red shirts piled over Ferran torres when thefinalwhistleblewattheMetlifestadium,crowningspainas the World Champions for the secondtimeintheirhistory.torres’s goal in the 106th minute, which decided a turgid and Spain’s Ferran Torres lifts the trophy with teammates. reUterS combative1-0finalwinbereftof dramatictwiststhatdefinedthe tournament, would be as im- mortalised as Andres iniesta’s extra-time winner in 2010. »ConTInueD on PaGe 2 Ahmedabad New Delhi, Thiruvananthapuram, July 20 in tHe first deaths of indian seafarersintheRussia-ukraine war, four indians were among 10 killed in a Russian missile strike on a merchant vessel departingukraine’ssouthernport of odesa on sunday. indiawasquicktocondemn the attack, without directly blaming Russia. According to the ukrainian Air Force, Russian forces launched three Kh-59/Kh-69 cruise missiles during the attack.onemissilestruckthestarboard side of the Golden Leo, a turkish-owned merchant vessel sailing under the flag of guinea-Bissau, igniting a fire. “on the evening of 19 July 2026, the vessel MVGoldenLeo was attacked while departing theportofodesa.Atthetimeof theincident,therewere17crew Grain carrier MV Golden Leo after it was hit by a Russian missile in the Black Sea close to Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday. aP the world page 13 Iran war: HoutHIs open new front on saudI arabIa members on board, including five indiannationals,”the Ministry of external Affairs (MeA) »ConTInueD on PaGe 2
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