NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Friday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party and accused its “goons” of attacking Cockroach Janata Party’s volunteers while they were inspecting a government school in Rajasthan.In a social media post on X, Kejriwal alleged that the attack was carried out to stop CJP from raising its voice for better education for children.”What’s going on in the country? BJP’s goons have brutally attacked CJP’s volunteers. They beat them up, tore their clothes and smashed the car windows,” Kejriwal said.”Is all this just so they can’t raise their voices for giving kids a good education? If the kids get educated, what’s BJP’s problem with that? Why do they want to keep our children illiterate?” he added.Earlier in the day, CJP founder Abhijit Dipke claimed that “BJP goons” attacked organisation co-convenor Ashutosh Ranka and other members during their visit to a government school in Rampura-Kanwarpura village.”Ashu has been attacked by BJP goons in Rajasthan. Ashu and other volunteers of CJP were beaten up and have been injured. Rajasthan Police has allowed this to happen,” Dipke said in a social media post on X.Meanwhile, Ranka said the attack on the volunteers started as soon as they entered the village. He alleged that stones were pelted by village residents and that the police “remained mute spectators.””The entire country saw BJP’s hooliganism live today. Stone pelting was already happening there, but the police remained mute spectators. Police said that they won’t do anything. This has been done at the behest of Madan Dilawar. Our volunteers had their hands broken. Our vehicles have been vandalised. There was stone pelting here,” Ashutosh Ranka told news agency PTI.”Elderly people pelted stones at the women in our team and broke their phones. This was pre-planned. All these goons should be arrested within 48 hours and the order should be withdrawn; otherwise, this protest will expand from education to Madan Dilawar now. You should be ashamed of yourself. The school has been running in a buffalo shed for a year now. We want to get it repaired. BJP goons were present there. This is a black day for democracy in Rajasthan,” Ashutosh added.Ranka threatened to launch a statewide agitation if the alleged attackers were not arrested, saying the protest would also seek Dilawar’s resignation.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesMeanwhile, a villager said the community did not want the issue to be politicised and that Rs 12 lakh had already been approved for the school.”We don’t want to politicise the issue. Rs 12 lakh has been approved for our school. Villagers are capable of building the school. We had constructed a temple earlier and we are capable of building a temple of education as well. We don’t want any support from Cockroach Janata Party,” the villager said.”We are opposed to such a party which calls for dividing the country and says bad things about Lord Ram. We oppose such people. 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NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Friday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party and accused its “goons” of attacking Cockroach Janata Party’s volunteers while they were inspecting a government school in Rajasthan.In a social media post on X, Kejriwal alleged that the attack was carried out to stop CJP from raising its voice for better education for children.“What’s going on in the country? BJP’s goons have brutally attacked CJP’s volunteers. They beat them up, tore their clothes and smashed the car windows,” Kejriwal said.“Is all this just so they can’t raise their voices for giving kids a good education? If the kids get educated, what’s BJP’s problem with that? Why do they want to keep our children illiterate?” he added.Earlier in the day, CJP founder Abhijit Dipke claimed that “BJP goons” attacked organisation co-convenor Ashutosh Ranka and other members during their visit to a government school in Rampura-Kanwarpura village.“Ashu has been attacked by BJP goons in Rajasthan. Ashu and other volunteers of CJP were beaten up and have been injured. Rajasthan Police has allowed this to happen,” Dipke said in a social media post on X.Meanwhile, Ranka said the attack on the volunteers started as soon as they entered the village. He alleged that stones were pelted by village residents and that the police “remained mute spectators.”“The entire country saw BJP’s hooliganism live today. Stone pelting was already happening there, but the police remained mute spectators. Police said that they won’t do anything. This has been done at the behest of Madan Dilawar. Our volunteers had their hands broken. Our vehicles have been vandalised. There was stone pelting here,” Ashutosh Ranka told news agency PTI.“Elderly people pelted stones at the women in our team and broke their phones. This was pre-planned. All these goons should be arrested within 48 hours and the order should be withdrawn; otherwise, this protest will expand from education to Madan Dilawar now. You should be ashamed of yourself. The school has been running in a buffalo shed for a year now. We want to get it repaired. BJP goons were present there. This is a black day for democracy in Rajasthan,” Ashutosh added.Ranka threatened to launch a statewide agitation if the alleged attackers were not arrested, saying the protest would also seek Dilawar’s resignation.
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Meanwhile, a villager said the community did not want the issue to be politicised and that Rs 12 lakh had already been approved for the school.“We don’t want to politicise the issue. Rs 12 lakh has been approved for our school. Villagers are capable of building the school. We had constructed a temple earlier and we are capable of building a temple of education as well. We don’t want any support from Cockroach Janata Party,” the villager said.“We are opposed to such a party which calls for dividing the country and says bad things about Lord Ram. We oppose such people. We need people who work for the country,” the villager said.
