ചീഫ് ഇലക്ഷൻ കമ്മീഷണർക്കെതിരെ പ്രതിഷേധം സംഘടിപ്പിച്ച കോക്രോച്ച് ജനതാ പാർട്ടി നേതാവ് അഭിജീത് ദിപ്കെയെ വിമാനത്തിൽ വെച്ച് പോലീസ് കസ്റ്റഡിയിലെടുത്തു. ഫോൺ നോക്കരുതെന്ന് മകൻ പറഞ്ഞിട്ടും വാർത്ത കണ്ട അമ്മ, നടപടി തെറ്റാണെന്ന് തുറന്നടിച്ചു. കൊലപാതകികളെയും തീവ്രവാദികളെയും പിടിക്കാത്ത പോലീസ് സാധാരണക്കാരെ വേട്ടയാടുകയാണെന്ന് അച്ഛൻ ഭഗവാൻറാവു ദിപ്കെയും വിമർശിച്ചു.
New Delhi:
On a day the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) had called for a mega protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, its founder Abhijeet Dipke had told his mother to stay away from the television and mobile phone. But she still did, and learnt how her son was detained from an aircraft, in what she described as "wrong". Dipke's father, too, backed his son, stating that the police can only arrest an ordinary person, and not criminals like rapists and terrorists.
Speaking to NDTV in Sambhajinagar, Anita Dipke said her son had asked her not to watch TV or check her phone on this day. "But a mother's heart couldn't help it. I saw a reel of him sitting in the plane. And they were detained in the plane. This was wrong," she said.
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She said she was aware that her son could be detained. But what shocked her was the manner in which the cops stormed the Air India plane in which Dipke and other CJP leaders had arrived from Mumbai.
Visuals showed Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka, and Saurav Das being detained amid an in-flight drama. The police personnel then took them to different detention centres in Delhi and Gurugram.
"Arresting someone on a plane like this is wrong. What crime did my child commit? If anything happens to him, we will hold the government accountable. Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi are also protesting, but they are not being detained," she said.
Dipke's father, Bhagwanrao Dipke, came to know about his detention from Instagram.
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"For the first time in the country, a student has been arrested on a plane. Rapists and terrorists aren't caught. They don't arrest those who flee with the country's money. But they immediately arrest an ordinary person," he said, slamming the police action.
His message was clear: "Full support for my son and his friends. Keep fighting."
The CJP, an outfit born out of a movement against paper leaks, had called for a mega protest at Jantar Mantar today over alleged irregularities in the voter registration and Special Intensive Revision (SIR) processes.
The police denied permission, arguing that they were late in informing the authorities.
Besides the CJP leaders, hundreds of their supporters were taken into preventive custody overnight. Besides, dozens of metro stations were shut, and hundreds of trains were cancelled to prevent a huge turnout like the July paper leak protests.