Activist Sonam Wangchuk’s health deteriorated on the fifth day of his hunger strike at Jantar Mantar on Thursday, with his blood sugar level dropping to 60 and his blood pressure remaining low, even as the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) alleged that police assaulted students attempting to set up a library at the protest site, as the agitation received fresh backing from CPI(ML) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya and RTI activist Nikhil Dey. Sharing Wangchuk’s health update on X, CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke said Wangchuk’s condition was “continuously deteriorating” and warned that the government would be responsible if anything happened to him. “Sonam Wangchuk’s health is continuously deteriorating.