Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Thursday announced a nationwide public outreach campaign, Kya Bolti Public, saying the initiative aims to understand 'people's issues'.
Dipke stated that the campaign’s initial priority would be education, contending that increasing school, college, and coaching fees have rendered quality education unaffordable for many families.
Our initial priority will be education reform. We contend that schooling has become prohibitively expensive in the country, with annual fees for Class 1 ranging from ₹1 lakh to ₹2 lakh, not including the additional donation charges, he said.
Questioning how middle- and lower-income families manage such expenses, Dipke said, "Where do families with such limited incomes get the money?"
He further alleged that escalating college and coaching fees were pushing families into debt and said the party wanted to ease that financial burden.
"College fees and coaching fees are also becoming too high, bringing families into the burden of loans. We want to free families from this. The parents should not feel burdened if they want to give higher education to their children," he said.
Dipke also cited B R Ambedkar while stressing that education should remain accessible.
According to Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, it is a fundamental right, but in recent years it has shifted, and education has increasingly been treated as a fundamental business for making profit, he said.
