Sheet by sheet, stage that amplified students’ voices taken down
For 36 days, the makeshift stage at Jantar Mantar stood as the face of the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) agitation. It was a platform for speeches, slogans and solidarity. Within hours, only a patch of flattened ground remained where thousands had gathered each day.As the structure came down, emotions ran high among those who stayed back.
- ▪For 36 days, the makeshift stage at Jantar Mantar stood as the face of the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) agitation.
- ▪It was a platform for speeches, slogans and solidarity.
- ▪Within hours, only a patch of flattened ground remained where thousands had gathered each day.As the structure came down, emotions ran high among those who stayed back.
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For 36 days, the makeshift stage at Jantar Mantar stood as the face of the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) agitation. It was a platform for speeches, slogans and solidarity. On Saturday, hours after the protest was called off, it began to disappear, sheet by sheet and banner by banner.Once the protest’s prominent faces had bid farewell to the site, volunteers began dismantling the stage, removing the cloth backdrop, folding flags and placards, unplugging loudspeakers and packing away microphones.Workers then loosened the ropes holding up the tarpaulin roof before taking apart the metal pipes and bamboo poles that formed the structure’s frame.
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