Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Friday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over police deployment during anti-CEC protests in Delhi, asking, “Why are you against Tiranga? In a separate post on X, Dipke accused the government of restricting peaceful demonstrations and defended the party’s right to protest, saying citizens must be free to question elected leaders and demand accountability.
In a post on X on Friday, Dipke targeted the Modi government over the heavy police deployment at a gate where protesters were seeking to display the national flag. In another post on X, Dipke argued that peaceful demonstrations were not responsible for economic disruption. Instead, he blamed government restrictions on public movement and internet services for affecting businesses and daily life. Dipke maintained that the CJP had followed Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of peace and non-violence since its inception. Dipke added that the party preferred to exercise its constitutional rights rather than resort to physical force.
Because of peaceful protests, “Businesses do not suffer.
They suffer when the govt decides to shut down an entire city, suspend internet services and restrict the movement of its own citizens and turn the city into a war-zone,” he said. He said the party had organised demonstrations in Mumbai, Pune, Jaipur, Lucknow, Bengaluru and Nagpur, claiming that all of them had remained peaceful. He said its strength came from its commitment to constitutional values and that no amount of provocation would make it abandon those principles.
“I was personally assaulted in Jaipur, but even then, I chose not to retaliate because responding to violence with violence goes against everything we believe in,” he said.
