The BJP on Sunday criticised the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), questioning its sudden shift from student-centric issues, including the alleged NEET paper leak, to electoral politics.
“Perhaps you wouldn’t see such a fast mutation even in radioactive decay,” BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi said at a press conference at the party headquarters in Delhi. His remarks came a day after senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad accused the CJP of “shadow-boxing” for the Aam Aadmi Party.
The BJP’s attack came as CJP leaders vowed on Sunday to intensify their protests over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Abhijeet Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, who were set free on a condition that they would not “breach peace” for a year, claimed their detention was illegal and the protest would continue till Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar resigns.
Asked about the CJP leaders vowing to continue their protest, Trivedi said, “Look, everyone has the right to protest, but how much it is accepted thereafter is a different matter altogether.” “Another thing has also become clear; what was a students’ movement over the examination system, just two months ago, has suddenly turned into agitation over electoral issues,” he said in a guarded response.
“Perhaps you wouldn’t see such a fast mutation even in radioactive decay,” he jibed, reiterating, “But, everyone has the right. Whoever wants to protest may protest,”
Trivedi said the recent victory of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in various campus polls reflects students’ sentiments and the ground reality. “We have won the Delhi University students’ union elections. We have won the Panjab University student union elections as well. The sentiment of the youth is clearly visible on the ground,” he added.
The CJP had led a protest at Jantar Mantar over the NEET paper leak issue in June-July, which culminated in the resignation of erstwhile Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan.