Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke's paternal grandmother, Savitribai Shankarrao Dipke, passed away at the age of 85 in Maharashtra's Hingoli district on Saturday fllowing a prolonged illness, family sources said.
Savitribai Dipke breathed her last at 11.30 am at the paternal house in Santuk Pimpri village. She was ill for a month and was hospitalised in Hingoli earlier.
Her last rites will be performed at 10 am on Sunday, the sources said.
"As Abhijeet Dipke has been detained in the national capital, we could not contact him. But we have contacted his parents, and they are on the way to Santuk Pimpri," said Dipke's cousin.
He said Abhijeet Dipke had met his grandmother on August 15 when he launched the 'School Thik Karo' campaign from the Hingoli district and one more time.
"He could not meet her in the last 20-25 days," sources said.
The CJP on Saturday claimed that its leaders Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were detained from inside the aircraft by Delhi Police as soon as their flight landed in the national capital.
Dipke, who travelled from Mumbai to Delhi to participate in the protest, posted a video on Instagram alleging that police personnel detained him and his associates as they disembarked from their flight at Delhi Airport.
In the video, Dipke is heard alleging that police personnel entered the aircraft and attempted to detain them.
"So, you can see that Delhi Police is entering the plane to arrest us. They are all entering the plane. We just landed. All the Delhi Police officers are standing in the aisle. They are trying to arrest us from inside the plane. The entire Delhi Police is getting on the plane... This is the fear of Narendra Modi... Not even Indira Gandhi did this during the Emergency. All we wanted to do is a peaceful protest, and they are picking us up from the flight like we are criminals," he said.
The CJP leaders reached Delhi from Mumbai for their protest at Jantar Mantar against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar.
(With inputs from PTI & ANI)