Cockroach Janta Party

Let's get right into it.

So the headline here is CJP Claims Dipke Kidnapped by Delhi Police.

According to The Times of India, this has been an incredibly fast-moving situation in the capital, and I really want us to scrutinize the language being used here because, I mean, it is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

It absolutely is.

Let's start with the hard timeline The Times of India lays out.

The cockroach, Jana party, the CJP, reported very early on Saturday that its founder, Abhijeet Dipke, was detained.

Right.

He was physically taken from the Jhandewalan area while he was on his way to Connaught Place ahead of a planned protest, which was called the Lehra Do Tiranga March.

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Next to India, where two leaders from the Cockroach movement were sentenced to five days in jail after protests demanding that India's election chief resign.

Ashutosh Ranka and Saurabh Das climbed over barricades to get into Jantar Mantar, along with about a dozen others.

Jantar Mantar is in central New Delhi and has been used as a protest site for years.

Thousands of protesters were briefly detained, reports the Associated Press.

About 130 million people have been removed from the country's voter list since last year.

While the government claims that people were removed for being double or illegitimate entries, the Cockroach movement argues that this will disenfranchise millions of people.

The Cockroach movement managed to force Narendra Modi's education minister to resign in July.

Let's get right into it.

Central Park closed ahead of CJP Taranga March.

Yeah.

So according to the New Indian Express, the New Delhi Municipal Council is completely shutting down Connett Place Central Park to the public on October 16th and 17th.

Right.

And to really understand why this matters, you have to look at the sheer tension building in the Capitol right now.

I mean, CJP leaders Saurabh Das and Ashutosh Wonka were literally just sent to judicial custody after demanding the chief election commissioner's resignation.

Yeah.

Let's go to a few places that have been rocked by widespread protests recently.

First, massive demonstrations in India's capital, New Delhi, which has seen more than a week of protests led by the relatively new youth movement known as the Cockroach movement, joined by opposition Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi.

Gen Z protests began earlier this year when people took to the streets to demand the resignation of the education minister and better conditions in schools.

Protests picked up again recently with young people calling for the resignation of the country's election chief.

There's a real sense of, of, of abandonment of young people and a sense that Modi's BJP government, which has now been in power for upwards of a decade, does not feel a need to even address, you know, whether it's young people, whether it's their opponents.

And what we've seen in response is very much a limiting of speech, a limiting of action.

So for instance, authorities have delisted protest sites in Delhi and sa- and then said, "We're going to hold up students and Cockroach protesters who want to go there." Ultimately, I think it, it's quite possible you will see the government abandon the education minister and potentially also the, uh, elections chief, who the Cockroach movement is also really targeting over delisting around thirty percent of India's registered electorate.

Uh, but I think it could get quite ugly in the run-up to that because what we've seen is a, a very kind of scared backlash from the Modi government here.

Adjudicator Kristin Collar found the tenants were troubled and distressed after they were served a fourteen-day notice.

Opposition leaders in India have urged the authorities to release the founder of the youth-led Cockroach movement, who was detained ahead of a protest.

Abhijit Dipke has been calling for the resignation of the country's election chief, who he accuses of disenfranchising voters in support of the governing BJP.

The BBC's Asde Mushiri is in Delhi.

Protesters gathered for hours, but once again, the CJP senior leaders were unable to join.

Just moments before reaching his vehicle, officers surrounded the founder, Abhijit Dipke, and forced him into a police car.

Paramilitary and police personnel were deployed, though the clampdown was less severe than last weekend.

had mentioned.

I don't know how many of you watched our interview with the CJP's top three, Dipke, Ashutosh Rangka and Saurav Das, in which we had mentioned that Freedom Park is the only place in Bengaluru where you can protest.

You can live anywhere in Bengaluru, but if you want to protest, you have to come to Freedom Park.

You cannot do any marches.

Yeah, first of all, fantastic use of chun chun ke with absolutely correct Hindi emphasis.

Dhanya, your Hindi gets better with each passing podcast.

But, you know, I mean, I'll just couple of things in context because I don't know whether Manisha has been on your podcast from the last CJP protest.

There were two varieties of cops, you know, our reporters also, including Manisha when she went there.

Yeah, they, they kind of, uh, claimed that term-

A student-led group called the Cockroach Janta Party, CJP.

I mean, I think they should work with a branding company on that a little bit.

Well-

Today, we are mostly going to be focusing on India.

Now, previously on the show, we've talked about the massive wave of student protests in India under the banner of the meme Cockroach Janta Party, which is named after a Supreme Court justice calling unemployed youths their cockroaches, so it's a play on the BJP.

It's like the BJP, but it's the CJP 'cause it's cockroaches.

Okay.