Abhijeet Dipke, CJP: The student behind 'cockroach' protests that forced an Indian minister to quit
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"It's been a rollercoaster ride. Two-three months ago, nobody knew me. I was just in my room in Boston watching documentaries or attending lectures," shared Dipke, who of late completed a master's in public relations at Boston University.
Adding to this, "Now I'm here surrounded by hundreds of people, by cameras. It's a bit overwhelming."
Meanwhile, In and around his hometown of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in the western state of Maharashtra, Dipke is routinely thronged by people wanting to shake his hand or take a photo.
Notably, If the attention bothers him, it doesn't show. Perhaps because politics isn't entirely new to him: before moving to the US, Dipke had worked with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), an opposition party that grew out of an anti-corruption movement, for three years.
As per the latest buzz, It was a response to a remark by India's Chief Justice Surya Kant, who had likened jobless youngsters to cockroaches. Kant later shared his comments had been misinterpreted and were directed specifically at young people using fake degrees, rather than the country's youth more broadly.
In further updates, But the clarification did little to quell the outrage.
On top of that, Dipke shared he wrote his post while playing a video game. "It was totally spontaneous. I had no idea it would become such a big movement," he shared.
Encouraged by tens of thousands of responses, he joined a handful of former colleagues and activists to launch the satirical Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) , its name playing on both the chief justice's remark and that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Source: BBC