New Delhi: Three months after Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) inspired a mass Gen-Z protest which ultimately led to the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over paper leaks in major exams, the movement which was started online by Abhijeet Dipke as a political satire is facing questions from the government about its real intentions.
Back in the thick of action amid the Opposition’s ‘vote chori’ agitation, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, the CJP is being handled with iron hands by the police and administration this time around.
With the BJP claiming that the motive behind continued protests by Rahul Gandhi-led INDIA bloc and the CJP is regime change, doubts have resurfaced whether the agitation by ‘cockroaches’ is being funded by foreign entities.
Adding a fresh perspective to the controversy, BJP leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh alleged that the movement was being “orchestrated” at the behest of American billionaire Elon Musk.
“This entire movement is being orchestrated at his (Elon Musk) behest. It is a massive conspiracy against our nation. Our country is being compared to Bangladesh and Pakistan, and for the first time, a march has been organised here with the explicit intent of intimidating the Supreme Court. Nothing like this has ever happened before. These foreigners — who wish to conduct business in our country, but only on their own terms — are the ones fuelling this movement,” said the former Lok Sabha MP.
Brij Bhushan, who was accused of sexual harassment by some of India’s leading female wrestlers, He claimed that the ongoing protest against the CEC and Election Commission of India (ECI) was part of a “massive conspiracy” against the country. He also alleged that the protest was aimed to intimidate the Supreme Court.
Specifically naming Musk, Brij Bhushan said foreign business interests wanted to operate in India on their own terms.
He was referring to Musk’s satellite internet company Starlink’s eagerness to receive India government’s final clearance to start operations in this country.
Musk recently targeted Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani on X, sarcastically referring to him as “Prime Minister Ambani” and accusing him of being the “real boss of India” who maintains a “monopolistic chokehold” to block Starlink.