K Annamalai of ‘We the Leaders’ movement has shown a measured support to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) which is currently facing legal scrutiny over protests seeking the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged discrepancies in the Special Intensive Revision ( SIR ) of the electoral rolls.
“I may not agree with many of the CJP’s modes of protest. I may not agree with some of the antics of CJP. That’s a different argument. But I completely support CJP in terms of the questions they want to raise. He accused the Delhi Police of doing a ‘disservice’. “To arrest them for a violation and again to drag them in terms of how they spend their time in jail, that is only going to make the leaders of CJP stronger. I’m afraid of it. His remarks came a day after a Delhi magistrate court extended the judicial custody of CJP’s Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das by two more days in the Jantar Mantar trespassing case.
It is for the government to answer,” he said while speaking to reporters in Chennai, as he alleged that the Delhi Police have taken ‘law into their hands’. The Delhi police are doing a real disservice,” he said. In its order, the court said the duo showed ‘no respect for law’ and cited the police investigation which alleged that the duo ‘mobilised’ and ‘enticed’ the public as they used the social media to make repeated calls for protests at Jantar Mantar, which has been de-notified as a protest site.
Annamalai, who is the former chief of Bharatiya Janata Party ‘s Tamil Nadu unit, said on Tuesday that while he may not agree with CJP’s modes of protests or their antics, but he supported the questions that they want to raise.
