India’s ‘Cockroach Janta Party’ founder returns to face off against Modi govt in Delhi streets, with its 22 million Instagram followers

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Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the viral Cockroach Janta Party—a satirical online youth movement named as a parody of Prime Minister Modi's BJP—returned to India from the United States to lead the movement's first street protest in New Delhi on June 6. The demonstration at Jantar Mantar channeled weeks of social media activism into direct action, with protesters demanding the education minister's resignation over exam irregularities while highlighting broader grievances about inflation and unemployment. The protest marked the transformation of a massive online youth campaign into offline political mobilization.