A war of words erupted between Cockroach Janta Party spokesperson Saurav Das and Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia on Friday, in connection with a post claiming the latter had called Swatantra Bhardwaj a “dimagi naxal”.
“Why should there be a problem in doing this? Ally Chirag Paswan has disowned the goon and filed an FIR too. Why is no one in the BJP saying anything? Are they owning the goons? Das questioned. He individually replied to Bhatia as well, stating, “I’ve already clarified. Now tell us if you disagree with the statement. The world should know this. I was out and about through the night.”
After Das shared the “dimagi naxal” post, Bhatia said that it was “fake”, while giving a 24-hour ultimatum to the CJP spokesperson to delete the post and apologise. Das, who later deleted the post, clarified on his X account that it was AI-generated, but dared BJP leaders to “repeat the line”, while personally asking Bhatia if he “disagreed” with the statement. The CJP spokesperson later clarified that the post was AI-generated, but “challenged” the BJP to “repeat this line. The CJP has alleged that he was attacked by Swatantra Bhardwaj and others, with Bhardwaj himself claiming that he had “broken the skull” of Aazad’s father, a statement he later denied. Bhardwaj also said: “But I was not even jailed.
However, sections under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act were also added against him. An FIR was initially filed against the 21-year-old accused under BNS sections 115(2) (causing simple hurt) and 126(2) (wrongful restraint). After the remarks surfaced on social media platforms, the CJP staged a sit-in outside the Parliament Street Police station in Delhi on Friday, with a delegation of the organisation’s members also meeting the cops on the matter. The police later detained Bhardwaj, and arrested him on Saturday.
