What began as an online joke has grown into one of India's most prominent youth-led political movements: the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), a parody pressure group launched after India's Supreme Court Chief Justice compared unemployed young people to "cockroaches." Founded by Abhijeet Dipke, an Indian student based in the United States, the CJP amassed 22.5 million Instagram followers within a month — more than double the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) following — by channelling widespread frustration over youth unemployment, exam scandals, and growing inequality. The Indian government responded by blocking the CJP's website and suspending its social media accounts on national security grounds, but the movement has continued through WhatsApp and Telegram, with rallies held across the country, signalling a generational political shift that India's establishment may find difficult to suppress.