Cockroach Janta Party โ Founder, Leaders and Members
One founder โ Abhijeet Dipke. Two TMC MPs already on board โ Mahua Moitra and Kirti Azad. A lakh members and counting.
Cockroach Janata Party Founder
Abhijeet Dipke
30. Public-relations student at Boston University. Former social-media volunteer with the Aam Aadmi Party (2020โ2023). Started the CJP X account on 16 May 2026, the morning after CJI Surya Kant's remark. Says the idea came โimpromptuโ โ he never anticipated the response.
Cockroach Janata Party Members โ Honorary MPs
Sitting Members of Parliament who have publicly accepted CJP membership cards in the first 72 hours.
Mahua Moitra
Welcomed by the party with the line: โYou are the real fighter democracy needs.โ Among the first sitting parliamentarians to publicly identify with the movement.
Mahua Moitra & the Cockroach Janta Party โ
Kirti Azad
Welcomed with a nod to his 1983 Cricket World Cup victory. The CJP says it values its team players โ on the field and off it.
Kirti Azad & the CJP โ full timeline โThe CJI behind the spark โ Surya Kant
None of this exists without one sentence from the bench. On 15 May 2026, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant compared unemployed youth to cockroaches during a Supreme Court hearing on fake law degrees. The Cockroach Janta Party was registered on X within 12 hours. Read the full CJI Surya Kant profile โ or read the full text of the cockroach remark.
The Cadre
1,00,000+ Members
Students, gig workers, UPSC aspirants, exam droppers, NEET re-takers, graduates of 2020โ2025, freshers without offers, freelancers who never got paid. The CJI called us cockroaches. We made it our party name.
5.51 Lakh on Instagram
Half a million followers in under 72 hours, organically โ no paid promotion. The fastest-growing political handle in Indian Instagram history.
40,000+ on X
The original platform โ where the slogan โMain Bhi Cockroachโ went from a meme to a chant.
Position on alliances: โWe will not align with any political party, especially not the BJP. If opposition leaders want to support us publicly, that is fine. But we are not interested in becoming attached to any existing party structure.โ โ Abhijeet Dipke, founder.