The U.S.-based Indian founder of the "Cockroach Janta Party" online youth group announced on June 1 his intent to return to India on June 6 to obtain formal permission to protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, demanding the resignation of the country's education minister amid recent irregularities with Indian school exams, Hindustan Times reported on June 1. The founder urged supporters to meet him at "the airport" — probably Indira Gandhi International Airport — the morning of June 6, after which they would proceed to the Parliament Street Police Station in the capital to obtain permission for the demonstration.

The Cockroach Janta Party's name refers to comments by India's chief justice, who compared some unemployed youths to cockroaches. The speed with which the online group garnered millions of young followers, along with its emergence amid other Gen-Z protest movements in recent years across South Asia, has elevated its profile. While the exam irregularities that helped fuel the group's popularity pertained to specific, recent examinations, such irregularities have emerged periodically in recent years, and economic anxieties among the country's youth have also been long-standing.