# Manoj Muntashir slams Abhijeet Deepke, Dhruv Rathee over youth protests 2026-10-09T15:31:11+00:00 | Politics | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets National Award-winning lyricist Manoj Muntashir released an 8-minute-42-second video on 9 October accusing activist Abhijeet Deepke and YouTuber Dhruv Rathee of misleading youth protesting alleged vote fraud. Muntashir claimed Deepke, founder of the ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ (CJP), is linked to Arvind Kejriwal’s team and that the protests are being used to regain power after AAP’s electoral defeat. He criticised Rathee for not celebrating national achievements such as Mangalyaan and military successes. Muntashir argued that if the Election Commission were fully under BJP influence, the BJP would not have lost in states like Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Telangana, and Jammu and Kashmir. He cited the 2024 Lok Sabha results in Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP and allies won 36 of 80 seats against the SP-Congress alliance’s 43, and West Bengal, where the BJP went from 3 assembly seats in 2016 to a stronger performance later, as evidence of democratic process. He said the protest is led by dishonest and opportunistic people, not leaders like Jayaprakash Narayan or Anna Hazare. Muntashir said he is not a BJP member but his ideology aligns with the RSS and BJP due to his belief in truth, the army, and Sanatan Dharma. He urged youth to think independently and not blindly follow any leader. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Both Dainik Bhaskar and Aaj Tak carried largely identical coverage of Muntashir’s video, presenting his statements without adding independent reporting or counter-views. Bhaskar’s report included an earlier context: that Muntashir had called NEET protesters in July 2026 ‘traitors’. Aaj Tak’s version framed the video as likely to spark a new political debate on the vote-fraud issue. The coverage from both outlets is uniform wire-style reporting that reproduces Muntashir’s allegations verbatim, offering no verification, opposing voices, or factual challenge to his claims about election integrity or the protest leaders. A reader receives only the speaker’s own arguments, untested. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - bhaskar.com (neutral report) Straight reproduction of Muntashir's statements, no counterpoint - aajtak.in (neutral report) Straight reproduction of Muntashir's statements, no counterpoint This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: AAP, Abhijeet Deepke, BJP, Dhruv Rathee, Election Commission of India, Manoj Muntashir Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/manoj-muntashir-slams-abhijeet-deepke-dhruv-rathee-over-youth-protests/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/manoj-muntashir-slams-abhijeet-deepke-dhruv-rathee-over-youth-protests/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/