Daijiworld Media Network - Hingoli

Hingoli, Oct 12: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) convenor Abhijeet Dipke on Monday accused the Narendra Modi government of waging a war against citizens to protect Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, amid growing demands for the latter's resignation over alleged irregularities in electoral rolls.

Dipke reached his native village of Santuk Pimpri in Maharashtra's Hingoli district late on Sunday night and visited the site where his grandmother's last rites were performed.

In a sharp post on X, Dipke alleged that police action against protesters, journalists and parliamentarians was aimed at protecting the Chief Election Commissioner.

“Youth are being assaulted, journalists are being assaulted, even MPs are being assaulted by Delhi Police. What makes Gyanesh Kumar so indispensable to Modi that he is willing to wage war against everyone just to protect him?” he wrote.

Dipke, along with CJP leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, was placed under preventive arrest at Delhi airport on Saturday ahead of the party's planned protest at Jantar Mantar. The three were released on Sunday on the condition that they would not breach the peace for one year.

The CJP and opposition parties have been demanding the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.