CJP activists assaulted in Rajasthan village throughout college inspection try

A workforce of Cockroach Janta Social gathering (CJP) activists was allegedly assaulted and chased out of Rampura-Kanwarpura village close to Jaipur on Friday (August 21, 2026), when it made an try to examine a authorities college as a part of the organisation’s ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign. The autos of workforce members have been broken and girls supporters have been allegedly roughed up.

The CJP activists, led by social gathering co-convener Ashutosh Ranka, had travelled to the village, located in Bagru Meeting constituency, to examine the Authorities Main College and work together with the scholars and lecturers. Nevertheless, some villagers had barricaded the method street and checked the autos getting into the world.

When the workforce of about 40 CJP staff arrived within the village, some individuals confronted them, raised slogans, and requested them to go away. Throughout a scuffle that adopted, the workforce members have been allegedly manhandled and pushed out with stone-pelting. The villagers later staged a sit-in outdoors the college.

‘BJP concerned’

Mr. Ranka mentioned one volunteer had suffered a fractured arm. He alleged that these concerned within the assault had been introduced in by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Social gathering. “We had knowledgeable the police about our go to to Rampura-Kanwarpura. The police have been conscious of stone-pelting within the space however didn’t intervene,” he informed journalists after leaving the village.

The varsity constructing had earlier been declared unsafe due to its dilapidated situation and closed. At present, courses for college kids are being held in a cattle enclosure near the constructing. “We had inspected the college final yr as effectively… It was being run in a buffalo shed even then,” Mr. Ranka mentioned.

The villagers, nevertheless, claimed that the funds for varsity restore work had already been sanctioned.

Villagers conflict with staff of the Cockroach Janta Social gathering (CJP) who tried to go to a authorities college in Bagru village
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Agitation threatened

CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke introduced that he would arrive in Jaipur and launch an agitation if the college restore work didn’t start, and if the BJP members who allegedly attacked CJP volunteers weren’t arrested throughout the subsequent 48 hours.

The CJP, which cancelled its go to to a different authorities college in a close-by village later within the day, claimed that the confrontation in Rampura-Kanwarpura was pre-planned and had the backing of State Schooling Minister Madan Dilawar.

‘Political battlegrounds’

The confrontation occurred amid a political row over a latest Schooling Division order imposing restrictions on the entry of outsiders into authorities faculties and barring images and videography with out the written approval of the heads of establishments. The order was issued after CJP activists joined an agitation by college students and villagers at a faculty in Alwar district on August 14.

The CJP has opposed the restriction and accused the BJP authorities of trying to forestall public scrutiny of the situation of presidency faculties. The social gathering’s ‘College Thik Karo’ marketing campaign seeks to evaluate the situation of faculty buildings, availability of lecturers, and different services and tutorial preparations.

The incident additionally spilled over into the Rajasthan Meeting, the place the BJP and the Opposition Congress traded allegations. Schooling Minister Mr. Dilawar later accused the CJP and Congress of trying to “disrupt schooling and spoil the environment”. He added: “Turning the faculties into political battlegrounds is extraordinarily regrettable. Everybody ought to stay vigilant in opposition to the makes an attempt to tarnish the college setting for egocentric pursuits.”

The Folks’s Union for Civil Liberties-Rajasthan demanded the instant arrest of all these accused of attacking the CJP delegation. He additionally sought an neutral inquiry into the failure of police officers to take preventive motion regardless of receiving prior details about the potential for an assault.