Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), left the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai’s Worli district at 6:50 am on October 10, 2025. He was en route to Delhi to join a protest that he and his party had organized.
He expected to reach Delhi around 10:00 am the same morning.
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The rally was set for Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Its stated aim was to oppose the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls and to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Dipke and his co‑conveners Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das accused Kumar of tampering with voter lists and of making unauthorized changes to Form 6.
The denial meant that the protest could not proceed as a sanctioned public assembly.
Despite the organizers’ preparations, the Delhi Police refused to grant permission for the October 10 gathering at Jantar Mantar, citing law‑and‑order concerns. The denial meant that the protest could not proceed as a sanctioned public assembly.
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Dipke alleged that Kumar was confronting allegations of tampering with voter lists under the SIR exercise. He also said that Kumar stood accused of altering Form 6 without proper authority.
In the same remarks, Dipke labelled Prime Minister Narendra Modi a dictator who, he claimed, is “scared of the youth.” He argued that the government’s actions—described as emergency‑like conditions, including the halting of trains, metros and roads—were intended to suppress dissent. Dipke noted that the protest had received public backing from the Aam Aadmi Party and several Left‑wing groups, namely CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML), RSP and the All India Forward Bloc.
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