A heated exchange occurred on Friday between Saurav Das, spokesperson for the Cockroach Janta Party, and Gaurav Bhatia, spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party. The dispute arose from a post allegedly made by Bhatia, in which he referred to Swatantra Bhardwaj as a “dimagi naxal.” The comments have sparked significant debate and criticism from various political circles.
BJP Demands Apology Over ‘Fake’ Post
After Das shared a post labeled ‘dimagi naxal,’ Bhatia described it as ‘fake’ and issued a 24-hour ultimatum for the CJP spokesperson to remove the post and apologize. Das later deleted the post and clarified on his X account that it was AI-generated. He challenged BJP leaders to ‘repeat the line’ and directly asked Bhatia if he disagreed with that statement.
The Delhi Police arrested Bhardwaj on Friday, after booking him under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and charges of criminal intimidation. After the remarks surfaced on social media platforms, the CJP staged a sit-in outside the Parliament Street Police station in Delhi on Friday, with a delegation of the organisation’s members also meeting the cops on the matter. The police later detained Bhardwaj, and arrested him on Saturday.
“Why should there be a problem in doing this? Ally Chirag Paswan has disowned the goon and filed an FIR too. Why is no one in the BJP saying anything? Are they owning the goons? Das questioned. He individually replied to Bhatia as well, stating, “I’ve already clarified. Now tell us if you disagree with the statement. The world should know this. I was out and about through the night. However, sections under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act were also added against him.
An FIR was initially filed against the 21-year-old accused under BNS sections 115(2) (causing simple hurt) and 126(2) (wrongful restraint).
Swatantra Bhardwaj came under fire recently for his remarks on a podcast wherein he claimed to have “broken the skull” of CJP activist Nishu Aazad’s father, Sanjay Kumar. The CJP spokesperson later clarified that the post was AI-generated, but “challenged” the BJP to “repeat this line. The CJP has alleged that he was attacked by Swatantra Bhardwaj and others, with Bhardwaj himself claiming that he had “broken the skull” of Aazad’s father, a statement he later denied. Bhardwaj also said: “But I was not even jailed.
