Ashok Goel Devaraha, president of the Shri Keshav Ramlila Committee and Model Town MLA, said

The decision comes amid ongoing protests by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) in the national capital (AI Image)

Describing the planned effigy, he said, “It will be a 30-foot-tall effigy, shaped like a cockroach; it’s going to be quite a striking sight!

Ashok Goel Devaraha, president of the Shri Keshav Ramlila Committee and Model Town MLA, said the decision aimed to highlight the need to eliminate filth from homes, neighbourhoods and society at large. Explaining the decision to add another effigy, he said the committee had followed the practice in previous years to highlight issues affecting the country. Our goal is to eliminate filth from three areas: our homes, our immediate surroundings, and society at large,” he said. “That is why, this year, the Keshav Ramlila Committee in Pitampura will be burning an effigy in the shape of a cockroach, representing filth,” Devaraha said. That is the reason behind our decision,” he said.

This year, our committee has decided to burn an effigy of a cockroach, a symbol of filth, at the Keshav Ramlila Committee grounds (NSP). He added that the effigy would be set alight at the committee’s grounds in Pitampura. “Look, filth, in any form, is something that our country, our society, and even our local neighbourhoods need to be rid of. The party staged protests against then Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan in June and July and is now demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the revision of electoral rolls.