Cockroach Janta Party in the News
What India's newsrooms โ Business Today, Deccan Herald, The Week, ThePrint, The Federal, Aaj Tak, Zee News, OpIndia and more โ have written about CJP in its first week.
Within 48 hours the party had an anthem, a website, 40,000 X followers and 5.51 lakh on Instagram. The slogan "Main Bhi Cockroach" trended for two days.
Mahua Moitra and Kirti Azad publicly accept membership cards. Founder Abhijeet Dipke says he didn't expect a massive response.
A profile of the founder โ Abhijeet Dipke, 30, Boston University โ and the mission: โBuild a party for the young people who keep getting called lazy, chronically online, and โ most recently โ cockroaches.โ
Long-form interview with the founder. โWe will not align with any political party, especially not the BJP,โ says Dipke.
The founder's diagnosis of why the response was this large, this fast โ and what he plans to do with the political energy now in his inbox.
OpIndia reports on Abhijeet Dipke's earlier work as a social-media volunteer with the Aam Aadmi Party between 2020 and 2023. The CJP has stated it is not aligned with AAP or any other party.
Explainer covering the CJI quote, the party's tagline (โVoice of the Lazy & Unemployedโ), and the five-point agenda.