On Wednesday (12th August), Saurav Das, the Co-convenor of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), claimed that the Puducherry Police visited his family home and questioned them. Saurav Das claimed that the BJP government in Pondicherry was “intimidating” his family to ‘silence’ him.
In an X post, Das claimed this ‘harassment’ was being done at the behest of the BJP-led Central government.
“Two hours ago, the Pondicherry Police showed up at my family’s home and subjected them to all kinds of questioning. Why this harassment, @PuducheryPolice? Who ordered this and for what purpose? Is this the legal procedure? Why is the BJP government in Pondicherry intimidating my family? This is not the character of the Pondy government. This is being done at the behest of the Union government!” Das wrote.
The CJP leader Saurav Das even labelled the Puducherry Police as “goondas”.
“If the intention is to intimidate me into silence, it will not work. This will not cower me down. It only strengthens our resolve to build a better system, one where the police uphold the law instead of acting like goondas!” he added.
In no time, the CJP supporters and extended anti-BJP cabal began expressing ‘solidarity’ with Saurav Das. They peddled the victimhood narrative that the BJP government was attempting to harass, intimidate and silence those who seek accountability.
Puducherry Police refutes ‘harassment’ and ‘intimidation’ claim of CJP leader Saurav Das
The Puducherry Police confirmed that it did visit the White Town residence of CJP leader Saurav Das on 12th August 2026. However, the police refuted Das’s ‘harassment’ and ‘political intimidation’ claims, terming them “false”.
A senior Puducherry Police official said that it was a “routine exercise” ahead of Independence Day. The official added that police visit all houses and establishments in important areas, adding that the residence of the Lieutenant Governor, Beach Road, and several other roads used by VIPs during official events are also nearby.
“As part of the security exercise, officers were checking residences and establishments along the relevant roads, including asking about people staying at the premises, guests and foreign nationals. “Only authorised establishments are permitted to accommodate foreign nationals, making such verification part of the exercise,” senior officer in-charge of crime and intelligence, Nithya Radhakrishnan, IPS, told The Indian Express.
Despite the clarification by the Puducherry authorities, Saurav Das and the anti-BJP cabal are portraying the police’s visit to his parents’ house as a ‘targeted inquiry’.
The leftist ecosystem is claiming that the police asked intimidatory questions and even issued implicit threats to the family of CJP spokesperson Saurav Das due to his role in the recent Delhi protests.
Saurav Das accuses Home Minister Amit Shah of planning ‘intimidation tactic’ to silence CJP cockroach
Saurav Das linked Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent visit to Pudduchery to the police’s visit to his family home. He claimed that Shah met Pondicherry Home Minister and Lieutenant Governor and “planned the intimidation tactic”.
“Just two days ago, Amit Shah was in Pondicherry where he met its Home Minister and Lieutenant Governor (who was infamously known as the “Eyes and Ears” of Modi in Gujarat years). Was this intimidation tactic planned at their meeting?” Das wrote on X.
The Puducherry Police, however, maintains that there was no targeted inquiry against Saurav Das or his family. The police also stated that contrary to Das’s ‘intimidatory questioning’ claims, the police officials asked the same kind of questions they asked other residents in the security zone.
The police emphasised that the officials did not even enter Das’s house, let alone ‘intimidate’ his parents.
Such is the Leftist art of victimhood that they portray even the ordinary as conspiratorial.
The CJP ‘cockroach’ Saurav Das not only portrayed an expected pre-Independence Day security sweep near parade routes and VIP areas as a deliberate ‘intimidate me into silence’ plot, and labelled the police doing their job as ‘goondas’, but also audaciously claimed that Home Minister Amit Shah might have planned an ‘intimidation tactic’ to silence him.
It is ridiculous even to imagine that the country’s Home Minister would sit in a meeting with the UT Home Minister and Lieutenant Governor and plan how to deploy police to ‘intimidate’ Saurav Das into silence. Union Home Minister’s portfolio covers issues as big as national security; there is no way he would indulge in specifically sitting and tailoring an ‘intimidation tactic’ against yet another anti-BJP activist.
If sending police to the doorsteps of Amit Shah’s critics and adversaries could really intimidate them into silence, more than half of the Islamo-leftist cabal would have abandoned their perpetual pursuit to vilify Shah, and by extension the Modi government.
However, Saurav Das has had a knack for peddling conspiracy theories even during his days of legal ‘investigative’ journalism.
Amidst widespread criticism over the CJP’s initial reluctance and subsequent performative support to the Jharkhand Student Protest, Saurav Das apparently found the police routine verification visit to his family home as an opportunity to garner support and portray himself as a crusader against a ‘fascist regime’ refusing to cower against harassment and efforts to intimidate him into silence.
Apparently, Saurav Das has taken a page from the Aam Aadmi Party’s victimhood playbook, wherein AAP leaders claim to be persecuted by the BJP government despite there being no such evidence. This, however, is not surprising given the CJP itself is an unofficial B-Team of the Aam Aadmi Party, with its National Working Committee comprising mostly former AAP members.
