Dehradun: Abhijeet Dipke has announced that the satirical Cockroach Janta Party supports the protesting students in Jharkhand.
“We will go to Jharkhand, stand with the students protesting there, support every one of their demands,” said Dipke ahead of CJP’s core team meeting at his residence in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
The “strategy meet” aims to discuss new steps for the youth movement.
CJP a pressure group
Dipke, who addressed the media ahead of the meeting, said that the system has become extremely “poor”.
“People elect someone in the morning, and by evening, a different government is formed. They elect an MLA or an MP from one party, and by the evening, that person has joined another party,” he added.
Dipke argued that India needs a public movement.
“That is why CJP will now function as a pressure group,” he said.
Dipke, who went to his hometown after the protest, has been actively meeting people and giving interviews. He even spoke against the widespread trolling of women who attended the CJP protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar.
The CJP founder said that Indians have lost faith in the judiciary, Election Commission, and media. The growing number of CJP protesters was a testament to that, he added.
“The support our movement received was never limited to the issue of education. As the movement grew, it became clear that it also reflected the public’s declining trust in these institutions,” Dipke told the press.
He highlighted that CJP protesters rose above their political ideologies and party affiliations to challenge everything “weakening democracy” in India.
“They came together against everything that is weakening democracy in the country. Through this movement, people expressed their anger and made it clear that India now needs a public movement—a social movement,” he said.
(Edited by Prasanna Bachchhav)
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