NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke was heckled at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport while returning to the capital after a brief stay in his hometown.As Dipke was leaving the airport, a man in the crowd called him a “CIA agent”, while another confronted him, asking, “Kyun desh ko kharab kar raha hai? (Why are you ruining the country?)”Dipke arrived in Delhi a day after his party’s co-convenors, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, sneakingly climbed over a gate to enter the prohibited area at Jantar Mantar to protest against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and the government. The government had denotified Jantar Mantar as a designated protest site.Later, Das and Ranka, who had singed a bond to “maintain peace for a year”, were sent to 5-day judicial custody on the order of Delhi’s special executive magistrate court.
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Reacting to the duo’s judicial custody, Dipke dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to officially declare an Emergency.In a video posted on X, Dipke targeted PM Modi over the duo’s judicial custody, saying Das and Ranka knew they could be jailed when they set out for Jantar Mantar but went ahead with their plan, carrying and unfurling the Tricolour.“Under Narendra Modi, even hoisting the national flag has become a violation of the law in this country,” he said.Dipke further said, “I want to tell Narendra Modi one thing: If you have the courage, officially declare an Emergency. Stop hiding behind the police like cowards. Impose an official Emergency and say openly that dissent will not be tolerated in this country, that protests will not be allowed. Say that from now on, the only slogan permitted in this country will be ‘Har Har Modi, Ghar Ghar Modi’.”He further alleged that PM Modi did not respect the national flag, the people of the country or the Constitution.“So declare an Emergency, if you have the courage,” Dipke said.