Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder, Abhijeet Dipke, on Friday blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the alleged attack on CJP members during the latter’s visit to inspect a government school at a village in Rajasthan, referring to the incident as “hooliganism”.
Describing the incident earlier in the day, CJP co-convener Ashutosh Ranka, who was also a part of the visiting team, alleged that the outfit’s activists had gone to Rampura-Kanwarpura to assess the poor condition of a government school that, according to him, has been functioning from a buffalo shed for several years.
Speaking to IANS, Abhijeet Dipke said: “When Ashutosh reached there with his team, they were subjected to a very serious attack. Stones were pelted at them, vehicles were attacked, and women members were also assaulted. We have seen the videos where BJP goons were beating and assaulting CJP volunteers in groups.”
Mentioning that the CJP under its nationwide ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign simply wanted the school to be fixed, he said: “Why do they (BJP government) have such a problem with getting the school fixed? If they had fixed the school, there would have been no need to go there.”
“This is hooliganism as they don’t want poor children to get quality education, otherwise, instead of having a problem with Ashutosh (Ranka) visiting a school, they would have had a problem with the school being run at a buffalo shed and students not getting water,” Dipke remarked.
He added: “BJP’s hooliganism will soon come to its end. People will teach them a lesson in the coming polls.”
Moreover, the CJP founder claimed that the BJP is now “scared” as the party’s reality has been “exposed before the whole country”.
“Now they feel that somehow, by intimidating and threatening people, they can silence them so that no one speaks against them. But that will not happen. The country is now awake, and after the Jantar Mantar (agitation), the people of this country have stopped being afraid,” he asserted.
Further, Abhijeet Dipke alleged that many wrong incidents are taking place in government schools.
From his experience of visiting such schools, he said: “I went to a school yesterday where I saw people coming from outside, smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol there. At that time, there is no notice saying that outsiders cannot enter, and the government has no problem.”
“But as soon as someone goes there and shows that there is no water in the school, shows how bad the condition is, or points out that there are not enough teachers, the government has a problem. Then the government says that outsiders cannot enter the school,” he added.
Questioning the government, he stated: “The people, Ashutosh and I are going to schools with, are from the same village, and children from those villages study in those government schools. They want the schools to be improved, so why doesn’t the government want the same?”
“Were the people in the government elected just to travel around in helicopters? They have to work for the betterment of the schools,” Dipke said.
(IANS)
