Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Saturday met Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee in Delhi and thanked her for supporting the outfit’s youth-led protests, while extending solidarity with the INDIA bloc rally on the “vote chori” charge.
Because the way she supported our first Jantar Mantar movement, she was always so strongly with the youth movement, “I just came to say thank you to Didi.
He, however, said that the CJP would retain its independent identity and not join the Sunday protest by the opposition parties. Dipke said he had called on Banerjee to express gratitude for her support to the outfit’s first protest at Jantar Mantar on the NEET paper leak issue and her backing when its leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were arrested by the Delhi Police. When Saurav and Ashutosh were arrested by the Delhi Police, even then Didi stood with us very firmly,” he said. Asked whether CJP would be present at Sunday’s rally at Ramlila Maidan, Dipke said the outfit supported the protest but would continue to function independently. “We support the protest tomorrow, we stand in solidarity, but the Cockroach Janta Party is an independent organisation; it is a neutral platform, and we want to keep it that way,” he said. He said the issue went beyond any one organisation and CJP would support all groups fighting against alleged vote theft.
