New Delhi: Cockroach Janta Party founder and convenor Abhijeet Dipke has alleged that party co-convenor and spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka and other CJP volunteers were attacked by “goons of the BJP” in Rajasthan.
Ranka and the CJP team were on their way to visit a government school in Rampura-Kanwarpura, Jaipur district, when a group of people chased them away, a video showed.
In the same video, members of the two groups can be seen engaging in a verbal altercation and physical confrontation.
Dipke, in a series of posts, wrote about how the team was heckled and alleged that Rajasthan Police were “mute spectators” while CJP volunteers were attacked.
What the F is happening in Rajasthan?????
Goons of BJP are after the blood of Ashutosh and other CJP volunteers.
How can @PoliceRajasthan allow this kind of attack? pic.twitter.com/F3kdPwS4kD
— Abhijeet Dipke (@abhijeet_dipke) August 21, 2026
.@PoliceRajasthan seems to be a mute spectator while goons attack CJP volunteers for visiting govt schools.
They don’t seem to have a problem with schools running in buffalo stables, but somehow have a problem with CJP volunteers entering those schools.
What exactly are they… https://t.co/q1UMHh1fvi
— Abhijeet Dipke (@abhijeet_dipke) August 21, 2026
School in buffalo shed
On 17 August, Ranka announced on X that he would be visiting schools in Rajasthan. Last week, Ranka visited a school in Jodhawas, Thanagazi, where he sat in protest along with schoolchildren against the school’s roof, which had collapsed six months earlier.
Ranka sat in protest for four hours, until authorities confirmed that the roof would be fixed. He wrote on X that he would return to Rajasthan and challenged Education Minister Madan Dilawar to show 10 of the best schools functioning during his tenure.
Videos circulating on social media showed Ranka and the CJP team being surrouned by a mob and assaulted.
Ranka posted on X that on arriving at the village, they were “openly assaulted, pelted with stones”.
All levels of disgust have been crossed today.
रामपुरा, कंवरपुरा में पिछले काफ़ी सालों से स्कूल भैंसों के तबेले में चल रहा है। लेकिन जब हम वहाँ निरीक्षण करने पहुंचे तो सरेआम मारपीट, पत्थरबाजी की गई। कारों के शीशे फोड़े गए, टीम पर पत्थर बरसाये गए। कपड़े फाड़े गए। ट्यूब में पत्थर… pic.twitter.com/H15osb1ODA
— Ashutosh Ranka (@AshutoshRanka) August 21, 2026
Photos shared by Ranka and Dipke showed broken car windows and people bleeding with visible injuries.
“Stones were thrown into tubes to attack the team. My clothes were torn,” he wrote.
He further alleged that all of this happened at the direction of Education Minister Dilawar.
“Madan Dilawar finds it acceptable for children to keep studying in a buffalo shed. But fixing the school? That’s not acceptable. Mr. Madan Dilawar—you sent goons today and shamed the entire state of Rajasthan in the eyes of the country. But we are not the kind of people who get intimidated by such thuggery. The school will be fixed, one way or another,” he wrote.
Dipke also took to X. “What the F is happening in Rajasthan?????” he wrote.
I went to the exact same school 1 year ago. The school is still in the same condition.
Who in their right mind would choose violence over fixing this school? pic.twitter.com/478RKnykU5
— Ashutosh Ranka (@AshutoshRanka) August 21, 2026
The Rajasthan government on Monday issued a circular restricting unauthorised entry, photography, videography and interviews by outsiders inside government school premises.
The order came after the CJP launched its “School Thik Karo” campaign, under which CJP leaders began visiting government schools in different parts of the country.
Dipke started with schools in his village in Maharashtra, while Ranka began his campaign in Rajasthan.
After the incident, while talking to news agency PTI, Ranka claimed that the police were aware of the visit but did nothing.
“The entire country witnessed BJP’s hooliganism live today,” he said. He further added, “Our volunteers were attacked, their phones were smashed, and one of our volunteers suffered a fractured hand.”
Ranka, on behalf of the CJP, demanded the arrest of all those responsible and called for the withdrawal of the attackers from the village. CJP is trying to get the school repaired, but instead of supporting that effort, BJP workers resorted to violence, he alleged.
Describing it as a black day for democracy in Rajasthan, Ranka said that if no arrests were made within 48 hours, “the protest will go beyond the issue of the school and will demand Madan Dilawar’s resignation”.
The BJP has rejected the CJP’s allegation that its workers were behind the incident.
(Edited by Prashantb Dixit)