The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has questioned the Delhi Police over its handling of detained party founder Abhijeet Dipke’s request to speak to his family, saying his relatives want to talk to him ahead of his grandmother’s last rites scheduled for Sunday morning.
Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, TMC’s Mamata Banerjee and AISA’s Neha Bora are among those who were detained in the national capital on Saturday. The post came after the Delhi Police posted on X saying Dipke had been informed about his grandmother’s death and the scheduled time of her funeral. “The unfortunate information, regarding the death of his grandmother and known time of her funeral was immediately shared with Sh. It added that he had also been offered possible facilitation for his journey home. There were also reports of journalists being detained around Jantar Mantar. Posts and videos on social media showed the detained journalists flashing their press cards from the buses. Wangchuk, who extended his support to the anti-CEC protest, was unable to physically take part in the agitation in Delhi.
Nearly 4,000 people have been detained in Delhi in view of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)’s Jantar Mantar protest today, the police said.
The police also said he had been offered assistance to travel to his hometown on humanitarian grounds. Abhijeet Dipke,” the Delhi Police said in its post on X. In a video message released on his social media handles, the activist claimed that the country was in a state of “undeclared emergency”. “Yesterday when I posted a message appealing for unity and peace in today’s protest, I had never imagined that the biggest democracy in the world would be under an undeclared EMERGENCY,” he wrote. “I was happy there were so many leaders to lead the movement, but I now learn that they have all been arrested,” he said.
His family wants to talk to him, they’re going to perform his grandmother’s last rites tomorrow morning. In a post on X, CJP demanded Dipke’s release and questioned his whereabouts: “Where is Abhijeet? The least they deserve is to talk to him.”
