India, Aug. 11 -- Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Tuesday slammed the police action on students protesting in Ranchi against alleged irregularities in recruitment exams in Jharkhand and said it was a repeat of what happened in Delhi last month.

Talking to reporters in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, he asserted that students are fighting for their rights and not for a vote bank, and wondered why only agitating students and youngsters face police crackdowns and not workers of political parties.

''What happened in Jharkhand yesterday was too bad. We saw the same thing happening earlier at Jantar Mantar (Delhi on July 20). Lathis and tear gas were used (against agitating students in the national capital durin...