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CJP names Abhijeet Dipke national convener, plans nationwide expansion
The Cockroach Janta Party on Thursday formed its first National Working Committee, naming founder Abhijeet Dipke as national convener and Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka as co-conveners. The announcement followed a two-day…
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The Cockroach Janta Party on Thursday formed its first National Working Committee, naming founder Abhijeet Dipke as national convener and Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka as co-conveners. The announcement followed a two-day core team meeting in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra. The organisation said it will remain a public pressure group, not contest elections as a political party for now.
The CJP plans to create state, Lok Sabha and city-level coordination units within six months, alongside a website-based membership drive. It said it is not collecting funds. A delegation will visit Jharkhand, where protests over alleged recruitment exam irregularities have entered their 13th day, according to the reports.
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The lazy narrative that every new protest platform must quickly become a political party ignores the CJP’s stated choice to remain a pressure group. The opposite claim, that a committee and membership website already amount to a nationwide movement, is just as premature. Its credibility will depend on transparent membership figures, funding disclosures and whether its planned six-month expansion actually produces functioning units.
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