Quick answer: After Abhijeet Dipke publicly identified as Dalit, caste-based attacks against him increased online. The abuse came during the same period when CJP was already facing platform restrictions, disinformation, and political attacks.
When they could not kill the joke, they attacked the person. When they could not silence the movement, they attacked caste.
What happened
Abhijeet Dipke’s Dalit identity became a target during the wider CJP controversy. Casteist remarks and abusive posts circulated online, attempting to reduce a youth-led political satire movement into a personal identity attack.
This is not new. In Indian public life, caste is often weaponised when someone from a marginalised background becomes too visible, too articulate, or too difficult to ignore.
Why the attack matters
CJP began as a response to young people being called cockroaches. The movement was about unemployment, exam failures, youth frustration, and political accountability. But caste abuse tried to shift the conversation away from those issues.
The goal was not debate. The goal was humiliation.
CJP’s position
CJP rejects caste attacks completely. Criticise the movement, criticise the politics, criticise the satire — but caste abuse is not criticism. It is violence disguised as opinion.
If a Dalit founder building a youth movement makes people uncomfortable, then the discomfort is the story.
The cockroach record
They called the unemployed cockroaches. Then they attacked the caste of the person who turned that insult into a movement.
But the movement is not ashamed of where it comes from. It is built from the people who were always spoken down to, mocked, ignored, and expected to remain quiet.
The cockroach remembers caste. The cockroach remembers class. The cockroach remembers who laughed.
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