Founded by Abhijeet Dipke, the Cockroach Janata Party has rapidly exploded across X and Instagram.drawing followers by the thousands.

In a country already overflowing with alliances, fronts, factions, breakaway camps and WhatsApp war rooms, India may have finally entered its most biologically diverse political era yet.

Meet the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and the National Parasitic Front (NPF) — two satirical political outfits that have erupted online with all the seriousness of a Lok Sabha campaign and all the absurdity of a late-night meme thread.

To be clear, both outfits describe themselves as satire. But like all great Indian political satire, the jokes are landing because the frustrations underneath them are real.

The buzz began after controversial remarks by Chief Justice Surya Kant comparing some unemployed youth to “cockroaches” and “parasites” triggered outrage online. What followed was peak internet-era politics: instead of outrage alone, social media users decided to organise. Or at least parody-organise.

The result is perhaps India’s first full-scale arthropod-led political ecosystem.

Rise of the Cockroach Janta Party
The Cockroach Janta Party describes itself as the “Voice of the Lazy & Unemployed,” headquartered “wherever the wifi works.” Its official website reads less like a political portal and more like a Gen-Z stand-up set masquerading as a manifesto.

Founded by Abhijeet Dipke, the CJP launched on May 16 and rapidly exploded across X and Instagram. The party has attained over a million followers on social media within days, turning what began as an internet joke into a viral political moment.

Dipke says the response had gone far beyond what he originally imagined. What started as an impulsive online joke after the controversy, he said, had now become “beyond a joke.” He admitted he “never anticipated this kind of response” and said the support was “completely organic.”

Dipke also explained that the idea was born almost instantly after the remarks controversy erupted online. “What if all the cockroaches come together?” he had posted jokingly on social media – only for the idea to spiral into a full-fledged internet movement with thousands wanting to join.

The party’s website openly admits the project is satire, but its mock manifesto cleverly mirrors real political anxieties. Among its headline promises:

No post-retirement Rajya Sabha seats for Chief Justices
Strict action if valid votes are deleted
50 per cent reservation for women, including in the Cabinet
Action against media outlets spreading misinformation
Long electoral bans for defecting MPs and MLAs

Rise of the cockroaches
The internet, naturally, loved the satire.