By Aftab Ahmed, Saurabh Sharma and Anushree Fadnavis NEW DELHI, July 20 (Reuters) - India's youth-led Cockroach Janta Party movement said on Monday a federal minister had promised the government would weigh its demands as thousands of protesters marched on parliament despite police efforts to scatter them with tear gas and cane charges.

Supporters of India’s youth-led “cockroach” movement faced police batons and tear gas as they tried to march to Parliament to demand the education minister’s resignation. The Cockroach Janta Party emerged in May after a Supreme Court judge compared unemployed youth to “cockroaches.

India’s viral Cockroach Party steps up protests after hunger-striking activist is forcibly hospitalised - Youth-led movement says Monday’s planned march to parliament will go ahead despite Sonam Wangchuk’s removal by police,