Archive · 12 Aug 2026
Abhijit Dipke's AAP ties exposed amid CJP NEET protest
Abhijit Dipke is a young man who started a group called the Cockroach Janta Party, or CJP.
The group said it wanted to help students upset about cheating in a big exam called NEET.
Dipke said he was an independent voice with no political party behind him.
But old posts on X (formerly Twitter) show he may have been working with a political party called the Aam Aadmi Party, or AAP, for many years.
In 2018, a woman named Aarti Chadha, who worked on AAP's social media team, posted a photo of him and praised him as a passionate supporter.
Other AAP members also wished him happy birthday and called him a dedicated member of the party family.
One of his own old tweets said he was 'still with AAP and will always be with AAP.'
Dipke ran the group from the United States while thousands of students gathered at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to protest.
At the protest, some speakers talked about politics instead of the exam, and people shouted 'Azadi,' which means freedom.
Many students felt tricked because the protest may not have been as independent as they were told.
Viral social media posts allege that Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijit Dipke was associated with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as early as 2016, contradicting his News24 interview claim that the association ran only from 2020 to 2023.
A resurfaced 12 March 2018 post on X (formerly Twitter) by AAP social media team member Aarti Chadha tagged Dipke's old handle @aaptimist_, praising him as selfless, passionate youth supporting farmers in Mumbai.
AAP Mumbai President Preeti Sharma Menon and AAP member Hasan Safin publicly acknowledged Dipke's party work in 2017, according to the article.
During the 2020 Delhi Assembly elections, media reports identified Dipke as a 23-year-old strategist from Pune working in AAP's IT war room under social media head Ankit Lal.
At Delhi's Jantar Mantar, thousands of NEET aspirants gathered for the CJP protest, where JNUSU's Danish Ali defended jailed activists Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid, crowds shouted 'Azadi' — and the CJP manifesto allegedly sought the Chief Election Commissioner's arrest under UAPA.
- Who
- Abhijit Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), along with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) members including Aarti Chadha, Preeti Sharma Menon and Hasan Safin, and thousands of NEET aspirants who protested in Delhi.
- What
- Viral posts and resurfaced tweets allegedly expose Dipke's long-standing ties to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), undermining his claim to be a politically independent student leader.
- When
- The viral posts circulated around 12 August 2026; the cited tweets and photos date from 2017 to 2024.
- Where
- India — including Pune, Mumbai's Azad Maidan and Delhi's Jantar Mantar — while Dipke operated remotely from the United States.
- Why
- The article alleges Dipke used the CJP and its NEET paper leak protest as political theatre to serve AAP interests, citing anti-government messaging such as a farm-protest tweet addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Evidence of long-standing AAP ties
Dipke's claimed independence
Timeline of AAP association
Evidence of long-standing AAP ties
Resurfaced posts show Dipke publicly linked to AAP from at least 2016–2017: a 2018 photo tagged by AAP social media member Aarti Chadha, a 2017 birthday post by AAP Mumbai President Preeti Sharma Menon and a 2017 promotion by party member Hasan Safin.
Dipke's claimed independence
Dipke claimed in a News24 interview that his formal association with AAP lasted only from 2020 to 2023, and he has presented himself as an independent voice without political backing.
Nature of the CJP protest movement
Evidence of long-standing AAP ties
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) was presented to students as an independent, youth-led movement founded by Dipke from the United States solely to demand NEET paper leak accountability and education reforms.
Dipke's claimed independence
The article alleges the movement was calculated political theatre run by an experienced AAP handler, with the Jantar Mantar protest hijacked by far-left student organizations such as AISA, AFI, SIMI and JNUSU pushing radical agendas.
- Main figure
- Abhijit Dipke (also spelled Abhijeet Dipke), founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)
- Political party implicated
- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
- Association with AAP
- Claimed 2020–2023 in a News24 interview; viral posts allege it began in 2016
- Social media handles
- @aaptimist_ (old, used until 2020); @abhijeet_dipke (current)
- Protest trigger
- Alleged leak in the NEET examination
- Protest location
- Jantar Mantar, Delhi
- Key viral post
- Aarti Chadha's 12 March 2018 tweet calling Dipke 'selfless, passionate youth associated with AAP'
- 2023 tweet
- "Still with AAP and will always be with AAP."