Police Deployed at Abhijeet Dipke's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Home as CJP Supporters Flood His Doorstep

They Called It a National Security Threat. Now Police Guard the Founder's Empty House from His Own Supporters.

On 24 May 2026, approximately 22 personnel from Waluj MIDC Police Station took up position outside "Shankar Sadan" — the bungalow belonging to Bhagwan Shankar Dipke, father of Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party — in Cidco Mahanagar-1, near Rajmata Chowk, Waluj area, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra. The security operates round-the-clock. The Commissioner of Police and an ACP visited on Saturday morning to personally instruct officers to maintain it.

The family was not there. They had left town two days earlier to attend a wedding. The bungalow was vacant.

The police were outside an empty house, deployed to manage the crowds of supporters who kept showing up to express solidarity with the founder of a movement whose accounts and website had been wiped from the internet — as part of a government crackdown that has been escalating since May 21.

The Official Explanation

He was explicit about what was not happening:

Senior Police Inspector Rameshwar Gade confirmed the chain of command:

So: the Commissioner of Police, an ACP, and a Senior Inspector all mobilised, round-the-clock, for a house where nobody was home, to stop people from showing up to say they support the person who used to live there.

The Eight Days That Built This Moment

To understand why 22 police personnel ended up guarding a vacant bungalow, you need the eight days that preceded it:

• May 16 CJP founded by Abhijeet Dipke. The name reclaims "cockroach" from a Supreme Court remark about exam-displaced youth.
• May 21 CJP's X account withheld in India under Section 69A of the IT Act on MeitY orders citing "national security." The account had approximately 90,000 followers at that point.
• May 22 Dipke receives WhatsApp death threats: "Close down CJP or get killed in the US." Also receives financial offers to shut the movement down. Both refused. (Deccan Herald)
• May 23 CJP's website taken down. All social media accounts hacked or removed. Dipke's personal Instagram hacked. The movement by this point has 20M+ followers and 350,000+ sign-ups. Sonam Wangchuk calling himself an honorary cockroach on this same day.
• May 24 Police deployed outside Dipke's family home in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. The family is not home. The deployment is to manage the supporters showing up to express solidarity.

The Irony the State Created

Every citizen who showed up at Shankar Sadan was doing so because the accounts were gone — because the website was blocked — because the movement had been erased from the platforms where it lived. The police were there because the digital deletion produced physical assembly. The state's solution to the movement was the proof of the movement's point.

Reactions to the Crackdown

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor called the X blocking "disastrous and deeply unwise" and wrote about democracy needing outlets for youth to express grievance. The Internet Freedom Foundation called the X block "a misuse of state power." Sonam Wangchuk — Padma Shri recipient, founder of SECMOL, real-life inspiration for the 3 Idiots character — called himself an "honorary cockroach" and warned that suppressing online expression pushes youth toward street protest, citing Nepal as a precedent.

None of these responses were coordinated with CJP. They emerged from the fact of the crackdown itself.

Dipke's Counter: The Numbers

From wherever he was, Dipke responded to BJP's Pakistan-funding allegation against CJP with analytics. He shared Instagram data showing 94.7% of CJP viewers are from India. The figure addresses the Pakistan allegation directly and without ambiguity.

He also stated publicly that state action should have been directed at those responsible for the exam paper leak — the original grievance that produced CJP — rather than at the movement demanding accountability for it.