Cockroach Janta Party’s founder says Indian government took website down
Summary
The founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), an online satirical group in India, said the government took down their website. The CJP began as a response to a comment by India’s Chief Justice comparing unemployed youth to cockroaches and quickly gained millions of followers on social media.Key Facts
- The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is a satirical political movement started by Abhijeet Dipke, a student at Boston University.
- Dipke says the Indian government took down the CJP’s official website and that the group’s Instagram accounts were hacked.
- The CJP was created after India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant compared unemployed youth to cockroaches.
- Chief Justice Kant later clarified his remarks, saying he referred only to people with fake degrees and praised Indian youth.
- The CJP’s Instagram page grew to over 22 million followers in one week, more than double the followers of India’s ruling party BJP.
- One million people signed up to join the CJP within a week, and 600,000 signed a petition demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
- The petition and protests call for Pradhan’s resignation following leaks of medical entrance exam papers, which caused cancellations of tests.
- The movement aims to challenge how those in power view Indian citizens, using the metaphor of cockroaches to criticize the government.
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