Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) Chief Spokesperson Saurav Das has said the movement intends to deepen its reach beyond conventional politics, as the group’s core leadership gathered for a strategy meeting to chart its next steps.
CJP’s leadership maintained that addressing public grievances calls for a broader societal awakening rather than the formation of a traditional political alternative. Speaking to reporters, Das said genuine transformation depends on building conscious resistance from the ground up, and laid out the timeline and scale of the group’s upcoming plans.
“We were asked questions about where this movement will go after the success of the protest, and we have all come to strategise around the same. We will hold discussions over it and think about how to take it to grassroot level… When we come up with something concrete on August 6th, we will inform everyone on our future strategy,” he said.
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Explaining the thinking behind the platform during the core committee meeting, Das said, “This is a movement. While there are numerous political parties, the answer to people’s pain is not another political party, but an awakening on grassroot level, and this is what CJP is doing.”
Meanwhile, CJP leader Vaishnavi criticised the tone of recent political rallies, saying authorities need to foster genuine dialogue rather than impose one-sided messaging on citizens.
“The way BJP and RSS have held other rallies recently, it is not much of a dialogue; it is dictation. So we just hope that they engage in dialogue instead of dictation. Children should not be bullied that is our hope. Otherwise, we will continue working on our youth movement,” Vaishnavi said.
CJP leader Ratna Singh said protests carry significant political consequences, noting that while organisations such as the RSS maintain active support networks, the political reach of public agitations has extended well beyond major cities.
“No, the RSS comes forward only to help them whenever they do, so there is no doubt about that. But whether this movement has had an impact, do you think, on voters… it definitely has, it has because just as much as you saw at Jantar Mantar, it has also had an impact in every village where people couldn’t even come. So definitely,” she said.
Referring to recent instances of heavy-handed policing and firearm deployment during student demonstrations in various states, Ratna Singh said such actions by authorities do not go unnoticed.
“Just as we saw in Bihar recently, where children protested there, in the protests that happened in Bihar, AK-47s were used. So all the youth are watching this, and the election tells you that everyone is keeping an eye on what you are doing and you will see its result,” she said.
Separately, on Tuesday, CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke said the organisation’s meeting on Wednesday would review its recent Jantar Mantar protest, discuss organisational expansion, and chart its future roadmap, while reiterating that there is no current proposal to convert the group into a political party.
Responding to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s reported remarks on engaging with Gen Z, Dipke called it “a good start” and said the youth movement had pushed senior leaders to engage with the younger generation.
“I’d say it’s a good start. At last, the youth of this country has forced people like Mohan Bhagwat, Narendra Modi, and BJP MPs to talk to Gen Z,” he said.
Dipke added that younger leaders should be encouraged to engage directly with youth, saying it was difficult for Gen Z to relate to senior political figures. “My advice would be to bring in new, young, and educated faces,” he said.
Earlier on Monday, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Atul Limaye called for “decoding” the CJP’s protest over the NEET-UG paper leak, alleging that several foreign and political elements had “infiltrated” the agitation and propagated the idea of “subversion of democracy through democratic means.”
Addressing an ABVP event in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on July 30, Limaye alleged that Hindus were opposed and ‘anti-national’ slogans were raised from the CJP’s stage.
Dipke, who hails from the Marathwada region, built a substantial following on social media after launching CJP. He returned to India on June 6 and began his agitation on June 7.
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