Many users focused on the T-shirt he wore, which read “Life s**ks but I s**k better,” while others began questioning his appearance, mannerisms and sexuality.
Notably, students in Lucknow had already planned a protest for 12th June 12 and Abhijeet Deepke deliberately chose the same date for his protest so that the assembled crowd could be portrayed as CJP's crowd. He appears to have done so, knowing that hardly 400-500 people arrived at Jantar Mantar on CJP’s call, while their Instagram page boasts more than 20 million followers.
Despite CJP’s 22 million social media following, its Jantar Mantar protest failed to draw crowds, while its Discord channel revealed repeated attempts to glorify Delhi Riots larger conspiracy accused Umar Khalid.
While the CJP had claimed that the protest was being organised against the central government, anti-national slogans of Azadi-Azadi were raised during the protests.
The picture of a woman caught the sight of many protestors. Unlike the brown-skinned protestors, this variant had blonde hair and white skin. Soon her identity became evident. She was Hannah Ellis-Petersen, a known anti-India propagandist who works for The Guardian.
"People in power are goons and use every available tools, and if these goons are this stupid, then it's only going to violent movement", one CJP supporter wrote on a Reddit post.