New Delhi : The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Thursday gave Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar 48 hours to resign, warning that it would launch protests across India if he failed to do so. CJP founder and convenor Abhijeet Dipke told journalists that his outfit would hold a sit-in protest in New Delhi and also across the nation.
The outfit also demanded that the SIR be rolled back to the 2025 electoral roll, that the SIR-related files be placed under the custody of a Supreme Court-led committee, and that the law governing the appointment of Election Commissioners be repealed. The demands came a day after The Indian Express newspaper’s investigation reported that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had recorded objections on at least 14 occasions over decisions and actions within the poll panel.
Advocate Brajesh Singh has sought Attorney General R Venkataramani’s consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against CEC Gyanesh Kumar, alleging that bypassing the other two Election Commissioners violated Supreme Court rulings requiring the poll panel to function as a multi-member body, with the CEC as “primus inter pares”, or first among equals, reported The Hindu. CJP activists said that while visiting government schools across the country as part of their “School Thik Karo” (Fix the School) campaign, they were increasingly being told by local residents that “vote chori” had now become a bigger issue.
The BJP couldn’t get such vote shares even during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s peak era, Dipke said, adding, Gyanesh Kumar has worked hard to get the BJP the vote share that even PM Modi couldn’t achieve. CJP founder and convenor Abhijeet Dipke alleged that Gyanesh Kumar was acting on the instructions of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. “I think CEC Gyanesh Kumar works under the instructions of Union Home Minister Amit Shah,” Dipke told journalists in New Delhi.
The outfit’s 49-day-long protest ended with BJP MP Dharmendra Pradhan resigning as Union Education Minister in July. Following the youth-led agitation in the national capital, the CJP launched a nationwide campaign to push for reforms in government schools under the banner “School Thik Karo”. The outfit has now turned its focus to the Election Commission, issuing an ultimatum to CEC Gyanesh Kumar and threatening nationwide protests if he does not resign within 48 hours.
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