Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday extended her support to the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) movement in Delhi and enquired about the physical condition of social activist Sonam Wangchuk over the phone.
She also expressed solidarity with the movement seeking justice for students.
Welcoming the Trinamool leader’s support, Abhijeet Dipke, founder of CJP, expressed his gratitude on social media.
He said that Banerjee spoke to Wangchuk to enquire about his health and urged him to stay strong. Dipke added that she extended her solidarity to CJP’s movement seeking justice for students and thanked her for her concern and support.
The CJP started a movement at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on June 20 demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the NEET paper leak controversy. Wangchuk was with the movement from the beginning.
He later announced that if the central government did not take any positive action by June 27, he would sit on a hunger strike. The social activist from Ladakh began his fast on June 28 after receiving no response from the Centre.
Following his deteriorating health, appeals have been made from various quarters for Wangchuk to break his indefinite fast.
He has been fasting in central Delhi in solidarity with Dipke, who is staging a sit-in at Jantar Mantar demanding that Pradhan step down over the leaks in May that affected lakhs of students.
On Tuesday, they received support from Banerjee, who had sat on a 26-day hunger strike during the Singur anti-land acquisition movement in 2008.
(IANS)
