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'Yeh jeevan hai…’: Abhijeet Dipke uses Kishore Kumar song, PM Modi meme in response to FIR in Maharashtra
Abhijeet Dipke responded to the news on Instagram Stories by sharing the news report along with a meme featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke reacted to the news of an FIR being registered against him over his alleged unauthorised entry into a Zilla Parishad school in Latur’s Ausa in a unique way.
Responding to the news on X, Dipke shared a video featuring a stanza from Kishore Kumar’s song ‘Yeh Jeevan Hai’, which conveys the sentiment that this is what life is now.
“Yeh Jeevan Hai, Is Jeevan Ka, Yahi Hai - Yahi Hai - Yahi Hai Rungroop (This is life; this is what this life is, this is—this is—this is its nature),” the lyrics read.
He also responded to the news on Instagram Stories by sharing the news report along with a meme featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi that said, “Oh my god.”
While sharing the story, he used the same stanza from the Kishore Kumar song.
What happened?
Dipke was booked along with others in Maharashtra’s Latur for allegedly entering a government school without permission.
A First Information Report (FIR) was registered against Dipke, party worker Ajinkya Shinde and other CJP workers at the Ausa police station for allegedly disrupting official work and threatening teachers at a Zilla Parishad Urdu school in Jawali, near Ausa in Latur district.
The FIR was registered after a teacher at the Zilla Parishad Urdu school, Sayyed Shamshadbano Khairatali, 53, filed a complaint.
According to the FIR, Dipke and his associates allegedly entered the school premises without permission from the authorities. They reportedly sat with students and raised questions about the condition of the school. The complaint alleged that their actions obstructed educational and government work.
‘School Thik Karo’ campaign
Dipke’s visit to the school was part of his party’s ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign, which was launched on August 15, Independence Day. He kicked off the campaign with a visit to a government school in his native village of Santuk Pimpri in Maharashtra’s Hingoli district.
However, the campaign has faced resistance, with government and civic authorities denying CJP volunteers permission to enter schools.
More recently, the Mumbai civic education department barred CJP volunteers from entering municipal schools without permission. On Wednesday, the CJP inspected Mumbai Public School in Colaba, while its activists attempted to visit Nadkarni Park Municipal School in Wadala on Thursday. However, senior CJP members were denied entry as they had not sought permission.
In a similar incident in Rajasthan, CJP workers were attacked by a group of people while visiting a dilapidated government school in Rampura Kanwarpura village in Jaipur’s Bagru Assembly constituency.
Despite the attack, the Rajasthan government admitted that as many as 611 schools are functioning without their own buildings. It has now ordered the construction of a new building for the school, with work scheduled to begin on September 1, 2026, according to an order issued late Saturday night.
