Weeks after the Congress party expressed joy over India beginning to ‘stir up’ as industrial workers protest in Noida turned violent, the anti-BJP political parties have found a new hope for stoking a Nepal or Bangladesh-like Gen-Z ‘revolution’. This so-called ‘revolution’, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) registered a sudden online rise, however, it turns out that from Instagram to Wikipedia, Pakistani and Bangladeshi people and bots form a significant number of CJP’s ‘cockroaches’.
Created on 16th May 2026, as a satirical response to Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant’s courtroom remarks about jobless youth, lawyers, journalists and RTI activists, the Cockroach Janta Party now has its own Wikipedia page.
The Wikipedia page (English) of the Cockroach Janta Party, however, has one of its contributing authors alleged to be a Pakistani. The page was heavily edited by one Salim Bin Yousuf, who, according to his Wikipedia author page, is from “Kashmir, South Asia”.
It is widely known that many Pakistanis use the ‘South Asia’ cover to either hide their nationality to escape embarrassment or to pose as Indians, particularly when meddling in India’s internal socio-political matters. OpIndia reported during Noida violence about Pakistani X users creating accounts with Indian, especially, Hindu names with their location set as ‘South Asia’, to pose as Indians and stir unrest.
The trajectory of Pakistanis pretending to be Indians by hiding behind the ‘South Asia’ veneer, and weaponise social media to pick issues, exploit faultlines, influence opinions and instigate violence in India, has fuelled speculations that Salim Bin Yousuf might be resident of the Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
However, there also is a possibility that Yousuf is from the India’s Kashmir and subscribes to a pro-separatist ideology.
Yousuf is currently partially blocked and his name no longer appears in Cockroach Janta Party’s revision history. As per the CJP’s Talk page, Salim Bin Yousuf and other editors had discussion over frequently changing the CJP logo on 21st May.
Previously, many pages and edits made by Salim Bin Yousuf have been nominated for deletion. These include pages and edits on several Indian Kashmiris, Government Dental College Srinagar, Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital as well as several noted Pakistani figures.
Cockroach Janta Party and its Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Turkish Instagram followers: Will those sitting outside India bring the ‘revolution’ I.N.D.I. bloc couldn’t?
The Cockroach Janta Party is receiving immense support from the anti-BJP political parties, who are often desperate to clutch at straws, former CMs, sitting MPs like Mahua Moitra. It is not surprising that the anti-BJP parties want to ride along a so-called ‘movement’ touted as ‘anti-establishment’. However, things become problematic when allegations of India’s hostile neighbour’s involvement in backing such a ‘movement’ emerge.
Several social media users have posted screenshots and recordings to point out that the meteoric surge in the number of Instagram followers of the Cockroach Janta Party is not fully organic. Amidst the chatter, the CJP founder, Abhijeet Dipke has denied this and claimed that 94% of the followers are from India.
Many people have claimed that Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Turkish accounts form a significant number of the Cockroach Janta Party’s 20 million followers.
Cockroach Janta Party: From satirical response to CJI Surya Kant’s ‘cockroach’ remark to yet another anti-BJP experiment
Formed on 16th May 2026, a day after CJI Surya Kant remark referring to certain “jobless” youth entering professions like law, journalism and activism as “cockroaches” and “parasites” attacking the system, the Cockroach Janta Party initially appeared to be satirical response.
The CJP’s Instagram handle began gaining traction and stirred a discussion on X as well. However, the mask of being ‘unbiased’ fell off soon as the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, Abhijeet Dipke, unravelled the anti-BJP agenda of his online stunt.
The website of the Cockroach Janta Party says that the platform exists for young people who are called “lazy, chronically online, and most recently, cockroaches”. Its membership criteria include being “unemployed”, “lazy”, “chronically online” and able to “rant professionally”.
Clearly, Dipke picked terms that the target audience, the Gen-Z, could relate to and find ‘cool’.
What intrigued many was why did a so-called movement pivoted from being a satirical response to the CJI, a non-political person’s remarks to boasting about winning a self-imposed Instagram followers competition with the BJP and now becoming a full-fledged anti-BJP political echo-chamber.
The answer to this lies in the political background of the CJP’s founder, Abhijeet Dipke, who currently resides in the US and studies at Boston University. While Dipke tried hard to appear apolitical and ‘angry’ gen-z, he is directly linked to the Aam Aadmi Party’s election and social media campaigns.
During the 2020 Delhi Assembly elections, one media report described him as a 23-year-old from Pune who was behind AAP’s social media transformation. The report said AAP was using catchy one-liners, parody videos, short clips and memes to promote Arvind Kejriwal and attack the BJP and Congress.
Abhijeet Dipke was quoted explaining how political messaging had to be simplified for millennials and first-time voters through memes and videos. The report also stated that he reported to AAP IT media head Ankit Lal.
In August 2019, the Legal Rights Observatory filed a complaint against then AAP Pune leader Abhijeet Dipke for “spreading lies of Indian atrocity in Kashmir and provoking “hurriyat like separatism” among Kashmiris”. It was alleged that Dipke was peddling seditious propaganda after the Modi government scrapped Article 370.
“A person named Abhijeet Dipke who is AAP’s social media coordinator with a verified Twitter account is openly spreading FAKE NEWS of Indian oppression and atrocities in Kashmir. His sample tweet links are given below,” the LRO’s complaint to Pune Police stated.
In conversation with The Statesman, LRO’s Vijay Joshi confirmed that the legal advocacy group had filed a complaint against Abhijeet Dipke back in 2019. Joshi said that despite assurances and follow-ups for years, the police did not register an FIR against Dipke.
“I kept following up on the matter, but even after six years, no FIR has been filed,” Joshi said.
Unsurprisingly, Dipke is also a supporter of 2020 anti-Hindu Delhi Riots accused Umar Khalid and has lamented his prolonged incarceration without trial, suggesting that somehow Khalid has been deliberately made to rot in jail. However, OpIndia has reported earlier that out of the 14 adjournments in 2023 and 2024, 7 delays and adjournments were sought by Umar Khalid himself. Contrary to the ‘injustice’ narrative, it is the alleged failed forum shopping attempts of the accused’s lawyer that has Khalid rotting in jail for so long.
Dipke has been a part of AAP’s ‘war room’ and has consistently held an anti-BJP political line.
OpIndia analysed earlier how, beyond the comedic surface, the CJP systematically advances opposition stances, targeting the judiciary, Election Commission, corporate interests, media, and political defectors, thus disguising partisan messaging as satire. It has been seen in the recent past how Pakistan has been sympathetic to Congress and other anti-BJP parties, and now, with the latest Opposition fad ‘Cockroach Janta Party’ reportedly finding supporters in India’s hostile neighbour, it indicates that the CJP is nothing but an anti-BJP experiment with a ‘cool’ and ‘Gen-Z-appealing’ PR. Another seasonal ‘trending’ idea that the Opposition has desperately latched on to, in their frantic hopes to dent the BJP’s political dominance.
