CJP's Abhijeet Dipke compares students to politicians' dogs? Now demands resignation of Maharashtra Education Minister Dada Bhuse

India"s schools do face real problems. Poor infrastructure, teacher shortages, outdated teaching. Dipke has every right to raise these as a citizen, but not to intrude uninvited and stage elaborate productions for political gain.

NewsBharati    20-Aug-2026 19:16:17 PM
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"Even the dogs of politicians get better facilities than the students in our government schools." This sharp, stinging and blatant remark came from Abhijeet Dipke, convenor of the 'Cockroach Janata Party' (CJP). After conducting an uninvited ground-level inspection of a Zilla Parishad school in Ujani village, Ausa tehsil, Latur, Dipke tore into the state's education system, demanding the resignation of Minister Dada Bhuse.

This is days after CJP launched its 'Fix the Schools' (School theek karo) campaign in the state, aimed at going to the ground to 'expose' the real state of education. Speaking to reporters, Dipke alleged that even today, many schools lack basic facilities such as proper classrooms, benches to sit on, drinking water, safe access roads, and clean toilets. Rainwater leaks through tin roofs. He alleged that in rural areas, the conditions in which students study have become "worse than for animals."
 
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CJP's Abhijeet Dipke (L), Dada Bhuse (R)  (Image- ABP news)

Taking aim at politicians, Dipke made an emotional and pointed appeal to the public. "When leaders are doing nothing for students, why should people vote for them at all? Just so they can ride around in helicopters? Leaders keep saying religion is in danger. In all these years, religion hasn't ended, and it won't, but the future of our children is certainly being destroyed in these crumbling schools," he said.

Dipke called on people to take to the streets to save their children's schools, just as they do while marching under banners of religion and caste.
 
 

Asked whether Education Minister Dada Bhuse should continue in his post, Dipke said bluntly that after witnessing the dire state of these schools, the minister has no right to remain in his chair. He challenged the government and elected representatives, saying that if they genuinely wanted to improve school conditions, they should first send their own children to study in these very government schools, so they could truly understand what students go through.
 

It is interesting to note that BMC's Colaba Kannad School, Colaba English School, and Hindi School in Mumbai filed an official complaint with the Education Officer Department after the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protesters forcefully entered the school premises and threatened the school guard in the name of the outfit’s first programme in the city under the nationwide ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign.
 
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Complaint copy exclusively obtained by Newsbharati 

The school authorities stated that the CJP activists forcefully entered the school premises without permission and also got the cameras in the school without permission. The CJP activists further forcefully entered the classrooms and began interrogating the school authorities and the minor students, leaving them baffled and scared.

The security guard at the school on duty attempted to repel the activists; however, the latter threatened the guard, saying they were CJP activists and that they had come for the inspection of the school. "They entered the washrooms of the schools and also dragged the school supplies from a closet that are usually provided to the students. They threatened the children, asking whether they ever received the school supplies. The children, however, said yes, but they were baffled and scared," the complaint letter by the school read.
 

A BMC education officer who did not wish to be identified said they were unaware of the CJP’s visit and were collecting detailed information regarding the matter.

Genuine grievances about school conditions deserve a proper channel, not political theatre

Armed with cameras, media, supporters and a barrage of anti-government rhetoric, Dipke has now turned schools into his latest political stage, with little regard for disrupting classes or affecting young students. He launched this "mission" from his native village, Santuk Pimpri (Hingoli district), on Independence Day, inspecting classrooms and questioning staff as though conducting an official review.
 
 

Would such conduct be tolerated from an ordinary citizen without political clout? This raises deeper questions about the political culture CJP is normalising, can institutional boundaries be bypassed simply by invoking "public interest"? Students were even asked to fill out CJP forms, lending the exercise an unsettling resemblance to a parallel administration operating outside elected authority.
 

Genuine grievances about school conditions deserve a proper channel, not political theatre. Being a taxpayer grants no licence to interfere in an institution's functioning, however well-intentioned the claim.
 
 

CJP walking on AAP path?

It is important to note that CJP has been called an AAP offshoot, given Dipke's past role in AAP's social media team, a party whose leadership, including Arvind Kejriwal, has faced its own allegations of anarchist tendencies, echoed in CJP's increasingly disruptive style blurring protest and political spectacle.

India's schools do face real problems. Poor infrastructure, teacher shortages, outdated teaching. Dipke has every right to raise these as a citizen, but not to intrude uninvited and stage elaborate productions for political gain. His selective activism is telling similar issues in Jharkhand and other non-BJP states draw no comparable urgency, suggesting concern filtered through political convenience rather than genuine intent.

Also worth noting that CJP's Jantar Mantar platform reportedly saw azadi slogans, anti-Hindu rhetoric, and abuse directed at PM Modi, while Dipke and associates have openly defended figures like Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid, raising real questions about giving him unchecked access to impressionable students.
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