India’s Youth Not Puppets Of Some People On Foreign Soil’: BJP Chief

Using the power of the digital age to trick young people into a negative direction won’t be allowed to happen in India, BJP national chief Nitin Nabin said at a party event in Jharkhand’s Ranchi today.

His comments come amid a loud gathering over a thousand kilometres away in the national capital’s go-to protest site, Jantar Mantar, led by Abhijeet Dipke, 30, a foreign-returned political satirist who has worked for the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) social media team.

Nabin, alluding to the political undertones of the just-arrived noisemakers who also found support from Opposition leaders, said, “It is on the hard work and strength of the youth that this country is moving forward… That is why I say to those who want to drag the youth of this country into negative politics, I warn them that the youth of India will engage in positive politics. We will certainly protest in every way on the basis of democracy, but we will not let the standards of democracy be destroyed.”

Dipke made headlines in recent weeks after he set up the website ‘Cockroach Janta Party’ and its social media handles while still in the US, in a move the public relations graduate from Boston University called a work of satire.
.(UPDATED ON 6TH JUNE 2026)