The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)’s founder, Abhijeet Dipke, has been detained. So is its top leadership. Dipke’s close associate, Ajinkya Shinde from Maharashtra, has now been tasked with leading the CJP protest over alleged electoral illegalities until other leaders are freed.
He worked with an international IT firm in Pune before joining the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as a full-time worker. Reports suggest that his parents were farmers in Alibaug and later settled in Latur. Before deciding to quit his job, he had served as the AAP’s convener for Pimpri-Chinchwad. After resigning, he dedicated a year to the Goa election work, but failed to secure a seat for the AAP. In the party hierarchy, Shinde finds himself just below Dipke, Ranka, and Das, who had been the party’s faces during the paper leak protests in July this year. His seniority is also established by the fact that he had been chosen to lead the movement after the top trio’s detention. After us, this movement will be led by Ajinkya. Please follow Ajinkya Shinde, he will be carrying forward Cockroach Janta Party after Ashutosh, Saurav, and me,” Dipke is heard saying in the video. He is a key face of the CJP’s Mumbai leg.
Ajinkya Shinde, 35, is a computer science graduate from Maharashtra.
Thereafter, he moved to the AAP’s Maharashtra team, where he served as a social media coordinator and the convener of its Maharashtra youth wing, according to multiple reports.
Earlier reporting noted: “If you’re watching this video, that means Ashutosh, Saurav, and I have been arrested. Earlier reporting noted: Ajinkya Shinde is Cockroach Janta Party’s national organisation in-charge was the organiser for the pressure group’s Mumbai agitation held earlier this month. Earlier reporting noted: He was also among the CJP leaders who spearded the pressure group’s ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign aimes that improving the condition of government schools across India.
Ajinkya Shinde has urged supporters to keep pushing towards Jantar Mantar and stage a protest wherever they are stopped
Dipke made the announcement in a video posted on the CJP handle. “If you are watching this video, it means that I, Saurav Das, and Ashutosh Ranka have been arrested. In our absence, Ajinkya will lead the protest and the CJP movement. Shinde urged supporters to keep pushing towards Jantar Mantar and stage a protest wherever they are stopped. “The government is scared of our unity. Please come to Jantar Mantar.
Please follow him,” he said. If the police stop you, turn that very spot into Jantar Mantar,” he said in a statement.
