Days after delivering a flop show at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke attempted to hijack a students’ protest in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow. Dipke arrived at the protest location in Eco Garden to join students and teachers protesting against paper leaks and seeking the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
However, just as he did in Delhi, Abhijeet Dipke stayed at the protest location for hardly half an hour and then left. More than five thousand students and teachers participated in the protest that began at 10 am in Eco Garden. Abhijeet Dipke arrived at 1:30 pm and stayed there for about 40 minutes.
Abhijeet Dipke arrived on the afternoon flight with student leaders from the SFI and AISA to join the protest, but the protesters ignored him. As per reports, he wasn’t even given a chance to speak for ten minutes. Hurt by this, Abhijeet Dipke returned from Lucknow on a 3 pm flight.
Reportedly, there was a scuffle between Dipke and the protesting students. Dipke wanted to address the gathering, but they were not ready to listen to his speech. Amidst sloganeering, Dipke began addressing the crowd, but the protestors didn’t let him speak. The protesters told him that this protest was not against any government, but against irregularities in examinations.
Despite the objection, Abhijeet asked for the microphone for 10 minutes, saying he had come to Lucknow from Mumbai to address them. But the protesters refused his request. Later, a microphone was provided to him, and he started to speak, but his words were drowned by non-stop sloganeering. Several protestors objected to the speech by the CJP founder, reiterating that their protest is not against any government.
Some of them said, “Our movement has nothing to do with the Cockroach Janata Party. Deepak is playing politics.” Seeing the sentiment against him, Dipke walked back to his car convoy and went directly to the airport. Before leaving, he urged the students to go to Delhi on June 20th.
The students said that the protest was planned 15 days ago, and Abhijeet Dipke was not involved in this. Some protesting students said that he came to join the protests on his own agenda.
Dipke and his gang tried to hijack the genuine teachers’ protest in Lucknow.
— BALA (@erbmjha) June 12, 2026
Dipke came, clicked photos for social media, and disappeared. The teachers themselves said he was there only for Showoff.
This is what happens when your own protests have zero turnout…..you start… pic.twitter.com/yc76t5rrmA
Notably, students in Lucknow had already planned a protest for 12th June, and Abhijeet Deepke deliberately chose the same date for his protest so that the assembled crowd could be portrayed as CJP’s crowd. He appears to have done so, knowing that hardly 400-500 people arrived at Jantar Mantar on CJP’s call, while their Instagram page boasts more than 20 million followers.
>लखनऊ में छात्रों ने पहले से ही 12 जून को आंदोलन प्लान कर रखा था
— खुरपेंच (@khurpenchh) June 12, 2026
>अभिजीत दीपके ने जान बूझकर तारीख 12 जून रखी
>जिससे आयी हुई भीड़ को CJP की भीड़ बताकर मस्त रील और फोटो खिंचवा सकें
>लेकिन उत्तर प्रदेश के छात्रों ने आंदोलन हाइजैक नहीं होने दिया
>और अभिजीत दीपके को वहाँ से भागना… pic.twitter.com/1A3S4mWjy5
However, the students did not let the protest be hijacked by Abhijeet Deepke, and he had to flee from the protest site.
The protesting students, unrelated to CJP’s gimmick, demanded the release of scorecards for the Uttar Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector examination held in March 2026, whose results were declared on 7th May. They also sought cancellation of the Lekhpal recruitment test over alleged irregularities, in addition to seeking greater transparency in recruitment processes.
The protestors included candidates preparing for teaching, medical, revenue, administrative and other government recruitment examinations. The CJP didn’t organise the protest, and Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke arrived at the scene when the protest was already going on.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Babloo Kumar said permission for the event was granted after an application was submitted by a teacher named Vivek Kumar. Notably, the application was not filed by CJP or any other organisation.
