Following the removal of Jantar Mantar from the list of approved protest venues, Delhi Police has put forward three locations as replacement options: Ramlila Maidan, Burari Ground, and CBD Ground in east Delhi.

Practical drawbacks accompany each of the proposed locations, among them their distance from the country's political centre, the cost of hiring them, limited shade, and reduced availability during the holiday period.

Ramlila Maidan sits nearest to central Delhi among the three options, yet it operates as a fee-charging venue that already carries bookings for events tied to particular seasons. According to a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) representative, reserving the 12-acre grounds costs ₹50,000 per day, with an additional ₹55,000 held as a refundable deposit. Applicants are also required to secure a no-objection certificate from the Delhi Traffic Police. An MCD official noted that half of Ramlila Maidan is currently allocated to parking for heavy vehicles, with the remaining portion available for event bookings.

The official further noted that partial bookings for sections of Ramlila Ground are not available; reservations are accepted only when the full section is booked. Shade is sparse across the open maidan, where tree cover of the kind found along Jantar Mantar's bordering pathways is largely absent. According to MCD records, the venue was reserved on 27 separate occasions across the period running from January 2024 through to September 2026. As Ramlila events and seasonal fairs take shape across the calendar, available time slots are likely to grow fewer.

Sitting roughly four kilometres from Jantar Mantar, Ramlila Maidan ranks as the nearest of the three officially designated protest grounds to Lutyens' Delhi.

Spanning 12 acres in Shahdara, CBD Ground falls under the management of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA). B.S. Vohra, who leads the East Delhi RWA Joint Front, raised concerns that the location was ill-suited for demonstrations, pointing to the density of nearby buildings and the likelihood of disruption to traffic movement in the area, and questioned how a protest venue could be established there. Walking distance from the site sit a hotel, two shopping centres, and an abundance of wedding venues, all surrounded by dense pockets of residential development.

Vohra noted that Ramlila gatherings and wedding marquees were still being set up on the plot at the time of his remarks. He further noted that demonstrations typically call for crowd barriers and road closures — measures that become difficult to put in place across a neighbourhood as densely settled as that one. A DDA representative noted that CBD Ground operates as a paid-booking venue, adding that the body would hold off on further decisions until Delhi Police issued guidance on how demonstrations may be conducted and whether any areas would be designated free of charge.

The central open space at CBD Ground exists, though questions about whether it lends itself to public demonstrations have been raised. Vohra questioned the rationale for relocating protest activity to such an area.

Sprawling across approximately 50 acres in Delhi's northwest, the ground known variously as Nirankari Ground and Burari Ground is the largest of the three venues. The distance between that location and Jantar Mantar runs to around 18 kilometres. Protesters taking part in the 2024–2025 agricultural demonstrations were directed toward that ground as a potential gathering place. Farming unions withheld consent for the proposed venue, with their spokespersons describing it as an "open jail" — a label intended to convey that perimeter fencing combined with its out-of-the-way location would confine the protests to an area where passing members of the public were unlikely to see them.

Sohail Hashmi, a writer and chronicler of Delhi, contended that the shift of protest venues from the Boat Club grounds near India Gate to Jantar Mantar had already drawn concern, and that pushing demonstration sites further from the corridors of power would erode the capacity of ordinary citizens to place their grievances within earshot of those who govern. He noted that the original location had offered enough open space for large gatherings to assemble close to where policy decisions are taken. Hashmi also noted that crowds are free to assemble on the grounds directly adjoining the Capitol building in Washington, and questioned the rationale for relocating people from the area surrounding India Gate.

Hashmi described protest venues as serving a function beyond simply offering open ground capable of holding large numbers of people, explaining that such locations act as platforms for visibility — drawing in journalists, elected officials, and others whose presence gives demonstrators a channel through which their voices can reach a wider audience. He noted that while Jantar Mantar offered limited space and came with its own drawbacks, the alternative venues — Burari Ground, Ramlila Maidan, and CBD Ground — were all located at greater distances from the political centre and presented their own respective challenges.