The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder and former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) functionary Abhijeet Dipke met Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s great-grandson, Tushar Gandhi, on 19th August. Abhijeet Dipke claimed that the family of ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ supporting him and the CJP is the biggest certificate of their patriotism.
CJP ‘cockroach’ Abhijeet Dipke boasts support from Tushar Gandhi as ‘biggest certificate’ of patriotism
Taking to X, Dipke shared a video clip of his interaction with Gandhi, and wrote, “It was a great honour to host Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson @TusharG sir at my house. Thank you, sir, for your words of encouragement. Cockroaches will always walk on the path shown by Bapu.”
During media interaction on Wednesday, Abhijeet Dipke claimed that receiving endorsement or backing from the family, the great-grandson of ‘Mahatma Gandhi ’, is “the biggest certificate of our patriotism”.
“It is a matter of pride that the family of Mahatma Gandhi is standing with us. During the agitation, we were called anti-nationals, anarchists and violent people. But Tushar Gandhi is standing with us today, which is the biggest certificate that we are peace lovers, non-violent and patriots. I hope those who made allegations against us have got a reply today,” the CJP founder said.
It was a great honour to host Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson @TusharG sir at my house.
— Abhijeet Dipke (@abhijeet_dipke) August 19, 2026
Thank you, sir, for your words of encouragement. Cockroaches will always walk on the path shown by Bapu. pic.twitter.com/tEAl1OJGqF
Even though the CJP protest on 20th July turned violent, with ‘cockroaches’ pelting stones and resorting to hooliganism, Dipke claimed the CJP agitation succeeded because the ‘cockroaches’ walked MK Gandhi’s path of non-violence.
“But Gandhiji’s ideology is the soul of this country. Our agitation succeeded because we walked on the path of Mahatma Gandhi. We have shown that his thoughts can never die. Earlier, we were compared with Nepal and Bangladesh. But as I said earlier, when the world learns from Gandhiji, there is no need to look anywhere else,” he added.
Meanwhile, Tushar Gandhi also heaped praises on Abhijeet Dipke and the CJP protestors, and wrote on X, “Made a new friend today. Abhijit Dipke ‘Cockroach Parent’. Respect and Admiration were mutual.”
During a media interaction, Tushar Gandhi also praised the CJP’s turning of Maharashtra government schools into his political battleground under the garb of the ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign, saying that now, after Gen-Z, Gen-Alpha is also asking questions.
Is receiving endorsement from the great-grandson of MK Gandhi really the ‘biggest certificate’ of patriotism?
While Abhijeet Dipke contends that receiving endorsement by Tushar Gandhi or MK Gandhi’s family vindicates him and the CJP against the allegations of being ‘anti-national’ and is the ‘biggest certificate’ of patriotism, patriotism is not a hereditary title or a stamp that one descendant of a person involved in the freedom movement can confer.
No single family gets to monopolise the right to ‘certify’ who is patriotic and who is not. Tushar Gandhi is not a super-citizen or an authority on patriotism merely by virtue of being a descendant of MK Gandhi. Securing Tushar Gandhi’s support does not automatically validate CJP’s motives, methods, and outcomes of its activities.
There is a lot more to Tushar Gandhi than just the identity of being MK Gandhi’s great-grandson. Tushar Gandhi is a long-time critic of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh; his disdain for Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also widely known. Tushar Gandhi has often claimed that PM Modi’s success is “built on hate” and undermining of ‘secularism’.
In fact, Tushar Gandhi had described Hindutva as “ideology of hate”, and called the BJP-RSS “cancer” in 2025. Despite massive backlash for expressing such extremely hateful and derogatory views for ideological opponents, Tushar Gandhi refused to apologise.
Tushar Gandhi has also participated in various Congress-linked events, endorsed electoral candidates from anti-BJP parties, and joined Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s infamous ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.
Clearly, the hateful rhetoric of Tushar Gandhi against the BJP-RSS is not neutral or above-politics commentary. It is obvious that Tushar Gandhi endorsed the CJP and hailed Abhijeet Dipke, after all the ‘cockroach movement’ managed to do something Congress and the entire left-liberal cabal could not do despite trying all possible manoeuvres, pushing the near-invincible Modi government on the back foot momentarily.
It is not surprising that, driven by his ideological hatred for PM Modi and the BJP, Tushar Gandhi described the CJP protest of 20th July as ‘modern-day Satyagraha’ despite the fact that the cockroaches had resorted to violence and hurled the worst of the abuses at PM Modi and his deceased mother during the supposed ‘Satyagraha’.
The Cockroach Janta Party received support from all the Modi-BJP-RSS-hating political parties, the Islamo-leftist media ecosystem, and even from Khalistani terrorists like Sikhs for Justice chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, and Pakistanis. It is natural that Tushar Gandhi, yet another BJP hater, endorsed the unofficial B-Team of the Aam Aadmi Party, the CJP, given it is directly and selectively targeting the BJP governments, be it in the Centre or various states.
If endorsement from the great-grandson of MK Gandhi automatically means ‘biggest certificate’ of patriotism, doesn’t endorsement from Khalistani terrorists and Pakistanis become the biggest certificate of being anti-national?
Not to forget, Tushar Gandhi has also been active in politics. Back in 1998, he formally joined the Samajwadi Party; he even contested elections from Mumbai North West Lok Sabha against the Shiv Sena incumbent.
In April 2021, Tushar Gandhi faced allegations of shielding left-wing terrorists from criticism a day after Naxals killed 22 Jawans in an ambush at Bijapur, Chhattisgarh. Today, in 2026, the Modi government has eradicated violent naxalism from the country, although Dimagi Naxals continue to masquerade as liberal-secular-progressive ‘intellectuals’.
Tushar Gandhi has publicly, through his online presence, books, commentary, and other activities, been aligned with anti-BJP/RSS ideology.
In such a situation, CJP leader Abhijeet Dipke describing endorsement from Tushar Gandhi and the family that ‘represents’ Gandhian ideology as a conclusive ‘certificate’ or ‘proof’ of unquestionable patriotism is ridiculous. The perceived greatness of one ancestor does not automatically pass on to their descendants, just as Tushar Gandhi does not believe in his great-grandfather’s belief of offering the other cheek after being slapped on one.
Abhijeet Dipke’s meeting with Tushar Gandhi came at a time when the CJP leader is running a ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign, barging into government schools in the BJP-ruled Maharashtra, disturbing classes, collecting details and reprimanding school authorities without himself having any legal authority to conduct inspections.
The blatant sexist commentary of Tushar Gandhi
In addition to his hateful rhetoric against his ideological adversaries, Tushar Gandhi has also earned infamy for his creepy and sexist online commentary.
In 2009, Gandhi wrote on Twitter (now X), “Women who don’t like me looking at them should stop pointing their assets at my eyes.”
In another one, he wrote, “Admiration: F&*k kya Maal hai.”
Back in 2010, Tushar Gandhi published a social media post riddled with sexual innuendos. “I love to watch the women playing at Wimbledon the trouble is I keep watching the wrong Balls.”
In another post he wrote back then, “2 all men avoid the Missionary Position 2day its International Women’s Day. Make love 2day in Kerala Position, Women on Top.”
A 2011 post by Tushar Gandhi reads, “I promise not to molest women because of what they wear or don’t, but please don’t take offence when I ogle and droole #SlutWalk.”
In a 2014 post on International Women’s Day, he wrote, “Since it’s ‘Happy Women’s Day, ’ men should be allowed to touch them to feel happiness.”
Dredging up Tushar Gandhi’s old disgusting posts was necessary even if one may argue that these posts do not define his entire public life; however, they do undermine claims that somehow the Gandhi family name naturally equates to unimpeachable moral authority.
