Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) convenor Abhijeet Dipke on Monday (October 12, 2026) accused the Narendra Modi government of waging a war against citizens to protect Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, amid growing demands for his resignation.

Mr. Dipke reached his native village, Santuk Pimpri, in Hingoli district of Maharashtra late on Sunday (October 11, 2026) night, and visited the site where his grandmother’s last rites were performed.

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In a sharp post on X, Mr. Dipke wrote: “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?”

Mr. Dipke, along with CJP leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, was placed under preventive arrest at the Delhi airport ahead of the Jantar Mantar protest on Saturday (October 10, 2026). They were released on Sunday (October 11, 2026), on condition that they would not “breach peace” for a year.

The CJP and Opposition parties have been demanding the resignation of Mr. Kumar over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls.