Cockroach Janta Party launches ‘Kya Bolti Public’ campaign, puts education costs first

Abhijeet Dipke evoked BR Ambedkar and said that the right to education has now become a fundamental business to gain business.

Representational Image | Abhijeet Dipke at CJP protest, Jantar Mantar | Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint

New Delhi: Abhijeet Dipke is asking Kya Bolti Public. It’s the Cockroach Janta Party founder’s new campaign to understand what it is that the Indian public is asking for. His main priority is education and how it has become unaffordable. 

For the last two days, Dipke was having a meeting with his core team in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, his hometown in Maharashtra. It was where the announcement for the new campaign was made. 

“Education reform will be our first issue that we are going to take up. We believe education has become unaffordable in the country. Annual fees are in the range of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh for Class 1, over and above the donation money,” he said.

The Boston University graduate spoke for the middle-class and lower-income families who do not have the means to pursue quality education. He said that the families get pushed into debt and that the CJP wants to ease their burden. 

“College fees and coaching fees are also becoming too high, bringing families into the burden of loans. We want to free families from this. The parents should not feel burdened if they want to give higher education to their children,” he said.

A new working committee

Dipke evoked BR Ambedkar and said that the fundamental right to education has now become a business to gain business. The CJP leader added that the Jantar Mantar protests took up matters other than the NEET paper leak as well and that the gathering proved Indian citizens’ growing anger toward the government. He also questioned the judiciary’s neutrality. 

“The court immediately gives a verdict on splitting parties and induction of MLAs from one party to another, but the same court does not have time when the common man wants justice.”

The Cockroach Janta Party does not limit itself to former Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. It has now formed an official working committee to address complaints of the Indian public. 

“This will be a nationwide campaign wherein we will be holding meetings across the country and interacting with youth. We will try to understand their problems, grievances and expectations, and what kind of politics they prefer,” Dipke said.

The party released a list of people now assigned to roles in the committee.