Was Abhijeet Dipke Expelled From Boston University? Here's What He Actually Said.

In the final week of May 2026, Abhijeet Dipke was managing multiple simultaneous crises from Boston. His Instagram accounts — personal and CJP's 22-million-follower page — had been hacked. The @CJP_2029 X account was withheld in India. The official CJP website had been blocked by a government directive under Section 69A of the IT Act. He had received a WhatsApp death threat. And into this environment, a fresh rumour arrived: that Dipke had been expelled from Boston University.

He denied it without delay. His response to the claimants was two words in Hindi: "Gawar Log" — meaning uncultured people, or more precisely, ignorant people who do not know what they are talking about. (Republic World, DNA India)

The rumour: what was being claimed

Around May 22, 2026, claims began circulating online that Dipke had been expelled from Boston University, presumably as a consequence of the political attention his movement had attracted. The claims were not supported by any official communication from the university. No statement from Boston University has been published confirming any disciplinary action against Dipke. Republic World and DNA India both covered the story specifically because Dipke reacted to deny it publicly — a reaction that itself confirmed the rumour was spreading at scale.

The American Bazaar reported separately on May 23 that a Boston-based student alleged the CJP website had been taken down around the same period — a distinct but contemporaneous claim about the CJP's digital presence from within the university's geography. (American Bazaar)

No expulsion was confirmed by any institutional source. The rumour remains unverified.

Dipke's actual status at Boston University

Abhijeet Dipke is a public relations student at Boston University. He has described this himself — noting in various interviews that his PR education, combined with years spent on the Aam Aadmi Party's social media team between 2020 and 2023, gave him the toolkit that produced CJP's rapid early growth. For a fuller account of how his Boston education shaped the movement's communications strategy, see From PR Student to Political Founder: Dipke's Boston Years.

Multiple reporters and outlets confirmed his Boston location specifically because he was still there during the crackdown week. The Newslaundry interview of May 23, conducted from Boston, is one such confirmation. WION and Tribune India also placed him in Boston when covering the account hacks. His presence at the university during the crackdown week is not in dispute.

Why "Gawar Log" is the right read of his response

In Hindi, "Gawar" (sometimes written "Gavar" or "Gawar") carries a specific meaning: a person who is unrefined, uneducated in the ways of the world, or simply not intelligent enough to verify before spreading claims. It is not a mild dismissal. Dipke was not politely declining to comment. He was publicly categorising the people making the expulsion claim as unworthy of serious engagement.

That response is notable in context. By May 22, Dipke was dealing with genuine, documented threats — a death threat saying he could be killed in America, the loss of all his platforms, a government block on his website, and international press attention. An unverified rumour about a university expulsion, stacked on top of that, produced not a careful denial but a contemptuous two-word dismissal.

"Gawar Log."

— Abhijeet Dipke, responding to viral claims of expulsion from Boston University, May 22, 2026. (DNA India)

The pattern: coordinated rumour-spreading

The expulsion rumour did not arrive in isolation. Consider the timeline of adverse claims that circulated about Dipke in the same week:

• May 21: BJP Kerala president called CJP a "cross-border influence operation."
• May 22: WhatsApp death threat: "Close down CJP or get killed. We can get you killed even in America."
• May 22: Rumours spread that Dipke was expelled from Boston University.
• May 23: CJP Instagram hacked. Personal Instagram hacked. Backup account removed. Website blocked under Section 69A.
• May 23: Boston-based student's claim that CJP website was taken down, reported by American Bazaar.

Each individual item can be evaluated on its own merits. Some are documented and sourced — the death threat, the platform losses, the website block. The expulsion claim is in a different category: it is an unverified rumour, denied by Dipke, with no institutional confirmation. Placing it in the full sequence makes the motive legible: discredit the founder alongside the movement.

For the full account of the crackdown timeline, see CJP Accounts Blocked: Full Timeline, May 2026. For the death threats, see "US Me Marwa Denge": CJP Founder Abhijeet Dipke Gets Death Threats in America.

What this means for CJP supporters

Dipke is in Boston. He is enrolled at Boston University. He was not expelled. The rumour was denied publicly and directly, with characteristic bluntness.

The movement he founded had 22 million Instagram followers in roughly eight days before the accounts were hacked and withheld in May 2026. It had more than 600,000 petition signatures. It had crossed one million registered members. The government found it significant enough to block under national security provisions. Three outside parties found the name significant enough to trademark within days of the block.

A rumour about a university expulsion, denied without evidence, should be treated accordingly: as noise designed to drown out signal.