Guwahati, September 27, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
More than 30 workers of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), including four members of its central committee, were detained by Assam Police in Guwahati on Sunday ahead of the party’s regional volunteers’ meeting, party leaders said.
CJP co-convener Ashutosh Ranka was among those detained. He alleged that the police action began in the morning even though the proposed gathering was a peaceful meeting on private property.
“Police were acting like goons since morning. It was a peaceful meeting at a private property, but police kept detaining our team members, and now all of us have been detained,” Ranka alleged.
The meeting was initially scheduled for 10 a.m. at Assam Shree Parshuram Seva Sadan on Kharga Choudhury Road in Athgaon. Organisers later shifted the venue to Chowdhury Tila, opposite the Assam Secretariat, alleging that pressure had been put on the original venue’s management to cancel the booking.
Ranka, who arrived in Guwahati on Saturday along with CJP members including Ankit Bhardwaj, Akash Prem, Varun Agrawal and Anam, had earlier said the cancellation of the original venue would not prevent the party from holding its programme in Assam.
Before his detention, Ranka accused the Assam government of attempting to prevent the party from raising questions over issues concerning the state.
He alleged that the party wanted to highlight the condition of government schools, what it described as the impact of man-made floods, and other public issues.
“Himanta Biswa Sarma is afraid that we will expose the condition of the schools here, the reality of man-made floods and other issues. That is why they are threatening us. But he does not know what we are made of. We will not stop until we expose them,” Ranka alleged.
He further claimed that CJP members had been stopped and threatened by authorities since morning, while maintaining that the party would continue its activities.
As of Sunday afternoon, Assam Police had not issued an official statement explaining the detentions or confirming the number of people taken into custody.
The incident comes as the CJP seeks to expand its organisational activities in Assam, with the regional volunteers’ meeting aimed at bringing together its supporters and members in the state.
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