Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of threatening hall and banquet owners in the Capital against renting out their spaces to his party for activities.
Speaking to reporters, Dipke said a meeting of CJP volunteers in Naraina was cancelled after the banquet hall where it was to be held revoked the booking at the last minute due to “pressure” from the ruling party.
“We were scheduled to hold our volunteers’ meet in Delhi today. We were looking for a hall but no one agreed to rent out one to us. Everyone kept saying there was pressure from above and that they cannot give a hall to the CJP. At least 10 places refused to give us space, saying if they did so, they would invite trouble,” Dipke told reporters.
“It was after a lot of difficulty that we managed to get a hall and we also have a receipt. The people who gave us the hall were also threatened and told that if they allowed a Cockroach Janata Party meeting to take place there, they would be turned upside down and hung.”
He continued: “The people are being threatened in this manner. Efforts are being made to prevent us from holding the volunteers’ meeting. All this is being done by the BJP… Their actions and words clearly reveal that they are afraid of the country’s youth… If they think such petty actions will frighten us, they are sorely mistaken…”