Abhijeet Dipke begins indefinite fast for PM Modi resignation

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke began an indefinite hunger strike on Saturday shortly after Delhi Police shifted activist Sonam Wangchuk to Safdarjung Hospital from the Jantar Mantar protest site.

Following the police action, the youth-led outfit escalated its agitation, demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resignation and vowing to press ahead with its planned Parliament march on July 20.

“I am starting an indefinite hunger strike beginning right now,” Dipke said in a post on X after Wangchuk was taken



to the hospital.

In another post, the CJP raised the pitch of its protest, saying, “Modi must resign!”

The outfit, which has so far been demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the alleged NEET paper leak, said the movement would continue despite Wangchuk’s removal from the protest site.

CJP spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka alleged that Wangchuk had been “manhandled and forcefully removed” by Delhi Police and that some protesters were assaulted during the operation.