New Delhi, 05 August— In an attempt to tune the over two months old party with the pulse of the people, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke today said that that party will function as a pressure group for now, as that is what India needs at the moment.
Speaking to reporters ahead of the CJP’s core team meeting in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Dipke said the discussions will focus on the dwindling trust of people in institutions like the media and judiciary.
The meeting will also take up issues like ethanol-blended fuel and rising unemployment, he said.
“For now, CJP will be a pressure group, as what India needs now is a pressure group,” Dipke asserted.
CJP chief spokesperson Saurav Das said activist Sonam Wangchuk will continue to be their mentor and they will seek advice from him.
Das further said they will push for withdrawal of FIRs against students who took part in the recent protests led by the CJP against the NEET paper leak and other exam irregularities.
“We are talking with government representatives on this issue,” he said.
Das also said they are working to provide legal and medical help to protesters injured in the recent students’ agitations across the country.
On the CJP’s core team meeting, Dipke said, “The agitation at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi drew a nationwide response. The responsibility on us has increased, and people’s expectations from us have grown. In this meeting, we will decide how the organisation should grow and also outline a rough road map for the future.”
The CJP core team meeting later commenced its meeting and it will continue on Thursday as well. “We will inform about the decisions by tomorrow,” Dipke said.
Apart from Dipke and Das, CJP representatives Ashutosh Ranka, Ratna Singh and others are attending the meeting.
Dipke returned to India from the US in June to lead an agitation against the NEET-UG paper leak that saw youth from different parts of the country converge in Delhi to demand reforms and resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as the Union education minister.
The movement, which received an enthusiastic response from Gen Z across the country, led to Pradhan’s resignation last week.
The CJP’s movement spread across various cities in the country, but demonstrations turned violent, with the police cracking down on student agitators in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and in Bihar, registering cases against them.
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