Ranvir Shorey: Take CJP Protest to Courts, Not Streets
Ranvir Shorey asks the CJP to take its Delhi protest to courts and Parliament as Huma Qureshi, Sonakshi Sinha and Vijay Varma criticise the police.
Ranvir Shorey has made his position plain in the escalating clash over the Cockroach Janata Party’s Delhi protest: courts and Parliament are the arena, not the streets.
The actor’s reaction came on Sunday after CJP spokesperson Sourav Das posted a video urging citizens to keep occupying the streets. Shorey shared the clip and asked supporters to “show your numbers in Parliament and the ballot, not the streets.” If the route to those institutions feels unjust, he added, the answer is to approach the courts.
What the protest is about
The CJP, led by founder Abhijeet Dipke, had planned a rally at Jantar Mantar on October 10, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The party claims irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
Delhi Police detained Dipke, Das and Ashutosh Ranka at Delhi airport shortly after they arrived from Mumbai. All three were later released. On Monday, Ranka gave Delhi Police 24 hours to announce a date for a fresh Jantar Mantar protest, warning that the party would decide its next course of action if the deadline passed.
Shorey’s argument, in his own words
Shorey called street demonstrations “a last resort,” not a workaround for the judiciary or legislature. “Your ‘right to dissent’ cannot turn into 7-days-a-week ‘protests’ that hijack the country and make life hell for the rest of us,” he wrote. He described those who protest without first exhausting legal remedies as “anarchists, attention seekers or morons.”
When an X user replied that the judiciary itself was compromised, the actor responded with a satirical list: “I am compromised, Other voters are compromised, Media is compromised, Parliament is compromised, PMO is compromised, CEC is compromised, SC is compromised.”
Bollywood’s split screen
The detentions had already drawn criticism from Huma Qureshi, Sonakshi Sinha and Vijay Varma, who questioned how the authorities handled the demonstration. Shorey’s post is a sharp counterpoint to that stance, and it has turned a political standoff into a wider celebrity debate about the limits of protest.
What’s next
Central Delhi is under tightened security ahead of an INDIA bloc march to the Supreme Court on October 12. Barricades are up across several locations, and some metro station entry and exit points will remain closed from 6 am to 4 pm.
- CJP leaders were held at Delhi airport before their planned Jantar Mantar rally.
- The party wants CEC Gyanesh Kumar to resign over electoral-roll revision claims.
- Shorey says the route is Parliament, ballot and courts, not roads.
- Huma Qureshi, Sonakshi Sinha and Vijay Varma are among those criticising the police.
For Bollywood fans, the exchange is another sign of how quickly a star’s timeline becomes a national talking point. Shorey is not asking anyone to stay quiet—he is asking them to move the fight into institutions. Whether that reads as principle or privilege depends on your politics, but it has certainly sharpened the celebrity conversation around the protest.
Source: Hindustan Times
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