Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Wednesday clarified that the group will not transition into an outfit willing to enter parliamentary politics for now. Instead, they will remain 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 his hometown, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in Maharashtra, Dipke said the CJP will address the dwindling trust of people in institutions like the media and judiciary, and also take up issues like ethanol-blended fuel and rising unemployment.
"For now, CJP will be a pressure group, as what India needs now is a pressure group," Dipke asserted.
"People have lost faith in the judiciary, politics, media, and Election Commission. Our agitation received nationwide support. As the agitation grew, the support was not merely limited to education issues; it was also about these institutions. Hence, to bring accountability to these institutions, there is a need for a public pressure group," he was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
The condition of political parties is "very bad". People vote for one side in the morning, but by evening a government is formed by someone else, he noted.
The youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protests at Jantar Mantar in Delhi concluded on July 25. Thousands of student activists, joined by Wangchuk during his 26-day hunger strike, mobilised to express public anger over the alleged widespread competitive examination paper leaks.
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 the 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 Bihar, registering cases against them.
