A tragedy recently struck Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district when more than 30 children lost their lives to infectious diseases. However, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and its leaders, including its founder and convenor Abhijeet Dipke, appeared intent on turning the sensitive matter into a political spectacle, visiting the affected villages to push their agenda even in this moment of profound grief and loss.
However, the media present there was in no mood to give him an easy pass to exploit the situation and confronted a visibly confounded Dipke, who was stunned by their pointed questions. “So, you have finally arrived to do politics over dead bodies? Now you have found the time to visit. How many days has it been (since the occurrence)? How much time has passed? And only now have you come to offer your condolences,” the reporters pushed Dipke for answers as he was sitting inside a vehicle.
Cockroch Deepak went to Balaghat to do politics over dead bodies, but ended up getting cornered himself.
— Mr Sinha (@Mrsinha) September 12, 2026
He couldn’t even answer the questions and eventually had to run away.😂
Also, people need to understand Balaghat’s history first.
Balaghat was declared Naxal-free only in… pic.twitter.com/xIEfh4aHKq
The bewildered CJP leader tried to make an apology to defend himself but was cut off as the media persons further pressed, “You finally got content for political mileage, right?” Dipke sought to argue that he had been in attendance for a longer time, but they challenged him by pointing out that two court hearings occurred in the matter on the 3rd and 9th of September, and he had only just managed to reach there now.
Faced with no alternative, he reiterated, “Please, listen to me, I apologise for being late,” to which the reporters inquired whether it was right to make a mistake and then offer an apology. “If the government were to do the same, you would initiate a series of allegations against it,” they emphasised.
A woman reporter laid bare the apparent motive behind the visit, telling Dipke, “You don’t want to apologise; you want to do your politics over dead bodies.” He was also reminded that many children had already recovered, while others were still receiving treatment.
“You know this region is now Naxal-free. You did not say a word about that,” another journalist conveyed. Balaghat and Madhya Pradesh were declared Naxal-free last December. Dipke was also told that the very road he had taken to reach the place was built only after the region was freed from red terror. The journalists again questioned what had prompted his sudden visit.
Dipke appeared to have little to say and eventually drove away in the four-wheeler as the questions became increasingly uncomfortable and exposed his real purpose. The reporters repeatedly outlined that he had come there to advance his political agenda and chose to evade when faced with the reality.
Meanwhile, the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s Jabalpur bench has asked the state government to submit its response on the issue. While hearing a public interest lawsuit, a division bench consisting of Acting Chief Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Pradeep Mittal also sent notices to the state’s Health Department, Women and Child Development Department, Balaghat collector and others.
