3M+ Instagram followers. 350K+ registered members. 72 hours to become viral!

Violent incidents that went viral on the internet have been happening in India but few that changed from one such word from the mouth of one of the parties in a courtroom to a nationwide youth movement in just 72 hours! Welcome to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) – a satirical, a protest, a full-fledged Gen Z and perhaps the most talked-about “political party” of 2026.

 How It All Started: One Word from the Highest Court

During the hearing of the case on May 15, 2026, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant lost his temper while dealing with fake professional credentials. He called the young Indians who are not employed and are choosing to become journalists and activists on social media, or on RTI “cockroaches” and “parasites of society”. The comment went viral in just hours.

•  There are youngsters like cockroaches, who have no work or haven in profession, some of them are grown up to become media and some of them are grown up to become RTI activists, and they start attacking everyone.
•  Chief Justice Surya Kant, Supreme Court of India, 15th May 2026.

Later, CJI clarified that his comments were meant for those with fake degrees trying to enter law and media, and not aimed at the jobless youth in general. But the damage was done and the Indian Gen Z had started their comeback.

 The Founder: A 30 Year Old with a Google Form and a Mission.

Lest anyone forget, Abhijeet Dipke, 30, a public relations student at Boston University, a former social media strategist for AAP, took to X the day after that, and wrote the following casual announcement: May 16, 2026:

• A new platform for all of the “cockroaches” out there: Unemployed, lazy, chronically online, rant professionally.
•  Abhijeet Dipke, Founding President, CJP

This one post on a Google Form inspired one of India’s largest online grassroots movements ever. The X handle with the handle name @CJP_2029 has crossed 15k followers within 24 hours. More than 80,000 people registered within 72 hours. The Instagram page has already reached a milestone of 3 million followers in three days. It now has more than 7 pages state-wise and the original page has more than 348K followers and counting.

 How It Spread: A timeline of going viral.

The remark by CJI Surya Kant on the “cockroach” during the Supreme Court hearing went viral on all platforms on May 15, 2026.

Abhijeet Dipke starts the CJP on X by creating a Google Form. Within hours: 15,000 followers, a website, a Constitution and a 5-point manifesto are live.

MPs Mahua Moitra (TMC) and Kirti Azad become “admitted” members. MainBhiCockroach goes viral in India.

May 18–19, 2026 – 80,000+ sign-ups. More than 7 pages are launched across Instagram and Facebook, each dedicated to a particular state. Participants are given cockroach badges around their chest and the offline cleaning drives start.

Al Jazeera, Republic World, BOOM, The Week, Business Today and Wikipedia are all reporting on CJP. More than 350,000 people are now registered.

 The Manifesto: Satire with Serious Demands

The CJP is “Secular, Socialist, Democratic, and Lazy” — a party for youth the system didn’t count. It may be tongue in cheek but the five promises are politically legitimate:

1. No reward in post retirement – No CJI shall be appointed as a Rajyotsava member after retirement.

2. Electoral accountability – In case any valid vote is removed, the Chief Election Commissioner will be arrested under the UAPA. Taking away voting rights is no less than terrorism.

3. Real women’s reservation – Women to get 50% reservation in Parliament (not 33%) and 50% of all Cabinet seats reserved for women.

4. Media independence – Cancellation of both Adani and Ambani’s licenses, investigation of the bank accounts of “Godi media” anchors.

5. Anti-defection in reality – If any Member of the Legislature or Assembly defects from one party to another, he shall not be allowed to contest any election for 20 years or until the defecting party loses office, whichever is earlier.

 The State-by-State Expansion: 7+ Instagram Pages and Counting!

This has already yielded organic pages for Maharashtra, Delhi, Bengal, Bihar, Karnataka, UP, Gujarat and more, with each focusing on the local youth frustration in their language and style. The original page has 348,000 followers, the state chapters are reaching out to CJP’s reach into every corner of India.

 Why It Resonates: The Deeper Frustration

The CJP is far from the first online initiative to rally the youth of India, as there are existing parallels with the Aam Aadmi Party, which was born out of the anti-corruption campaign by India Against Corruption in 2011. CJP’s energy, however, is unmistakably Gen Z: meme-like, intentionally silly, and raw with a feeling of joblessness, cheating on exams, and disconnection from institutions.

 I think the thing that we got from the reaction is that the youth in India are bitter because none of the political parties have done anything about them in the past few years, that’s why all of them are in the cockroach category.

The message of the movement is straightforward: surviving the broken system makes you a “cockroach,” and being resilient is a kind of protest. Groups have been conducting cleaning drives, with cockroach badges on their chests, offline. In the online world, MainBhiCockroach has emerged as one of the most spreading hashtags of the month (May) 2026.

 What Next for CJP?

The party is looking towards the 2029 general elections – their handle is literally @CJP_2029. Whether it is a formal political party, a satirical pressure group, or it will become something entirely different is still to be seen. There’s one thing for sure, in five days a word which was supposed to humiliate has become a rallying slogan for millions of young Indians.

They named it ‘youth cockroaches’. The youth replied, “Well, you know that cockroaches can survive everything, right?