The Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Friday warned of “Jantar Mantar 2.0” during a protest at Shivaji Park in Mumbai if Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar doesn’t resign. During the protest, Dipke also targeted the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
“If Gyanesh Kumar does not resign, the Gen Z of the entire nation will go to Delhi. There will be Jantar Mantar 2.0,” Dipke said during the Shivaji Park protest as he gave a call for “Chalo Delhi”.
“The government is so incompetent that we have to protest again in two months,” the CJP founder said, referring to the Jantar Mantar protest that took place over the NEET paper leak.
Why CJP Chose Mumbai In Place Of Delhi?
Elaborating on why the CJP chose Maharashtra to start its protest against CEC Kumar, Dipke claimed that the decision was taken due to alleged irregularities in the voter rolls in the state. He claimed that 13 crore voters have been deleted in two years.
In 2024, there were 97 crore registered voters and the gap between the victory of the NDA and INDIA grouping was just 2 per cent in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, he said. Gyanesh Kumar was appointed 15 days before the polls to increase the gap, Dipke alleged.
Also in 2024, the BJP “stole” the Maharashtra Assembly elections as 40 lakh voters were added to the electoral rolls, he claimed.
In Delhi, 40,000 voters were deleted in AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal’s Assembly constituency and he lost by 4,000 votes, Dipke said.
In Tamil Nadu, nearly one lakh voters got deleted from former chief minister M K Stalin’s constituency and he lost by 10,000 votes while Mamata Banerjee lost similarly in West Bengal after voters in her constituency were deleted, the CJP leader alleged.
BJP supporters argue that the opposition won in Telangana, Karnataka and Jharkhand (and hence the elections are fair), but “when the match is fixed, not all balls are no-balls and not all catches are dropped,” Dipke added.
He also accused the BJP of trying to finish off regional parties, starting with the Shiv Sena and NCP in Maharashtra, and dubbed the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena a “shell company”.
Who All Attended CJP Protest?
Veteran actors Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi, filmmakers Vishal Bhardwaj and Hansal Mehta, singer-music director Vishal Dadlani, and Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, were present at the protest.
Despite opposition by a section of residents of Shivaji Park and heavy security deployment extending up to Dadar station, protesters filled the locality with slogans, Gandhian quotes, and signs calling for CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s immediate resignation.
(With agency inputs)