The greatest challenge to India’s government in years began as an online joke. On May 16, after Supreme Court Chief Justice Surya Kant described unemployed youth as “cockroaches”, Abhijeet Dipke, an ...

NEW DELHI — Hundreds of supporters of the Cockroach Janata Party, an online joke that has drawn millions of followers across India, gathered for the first time in the capital on Saturday for its ...

The Cockroach Party started as a joke on social media and has evolved into a movement capable of mobilizing thousands of young people against the Government. Under a whitish sky due to heat and ...

New Delhi — India's political establishment has a cockroach problem, and the government seems to be taking it seriously. The infestation is not of insects, however, but millions of young Indians ...

The mock political outfit Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has amassed over 22 million followers on Instagram. Similar movements led by disgruntled youth on social media in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Indonesia ...

Few creatures invite as much dislike as cockroaches do, which is why it is weird that the same insect has suddenly become the ...

Indian students studying in Australia are riveted to politics in their home country, as the rise of the Cockroach Janta Party ...

ABHIJEET DIPKE, the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, predicted that when he landed at Delhi airport he would be arrested and the protest he had planned would be banned. That might have sounded a ...

Hitherto confined to social media, the “cockroaches” emerged on the ground at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on June 6. What started as a joke has turned serious. Abhijeet Dipke (holding mike), founder of the ...