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3 WEEKS LATER — THE COCKROACHES ORGANIZED.
22 MILLION INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS.
DOUBLE MODI'S RULING PARTY.
AND HUNDREDS MARCHING IN NEW DELHI YESTERDAY.
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May 15, 2026.
India's Supreme Court. Chief Justice Surya Kant during an open court hearing said "parasites" were attacking the system and equated young people "who don't get any employment or have any place in profession" to cockroaches.
He later clarified his remarks were directed at people with fraudulent degrees, not youth in general.
Abhijeet Dipke, a 30-year-old political communications graduate from Boston University read the remarks and posted one sentence on X.
"What if all cockroaches came together?"
On May 16, the day after the chief justice's remarks, he registered a website and social media accounts for the Cockroach Janata Party.
CJP.
A deliberate play on Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party — BJP.
3 weeks later, 22 million Instagram followers.
More than Modi's BJP.
More than the Indian National Congress, India's two largest political parties.
Combined following surpassed by a joke account created in one afternoon.
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Yesterday, Saurav Kushwaha, 17, packed a change of clothes and boarded an overnight train from his village in Madhya Pradesh to reach New Delhi.
He rested on a footpath with his elder brother, waiting for Dipke to arrive from the United States.
Waving India's national flag and clutching schoolbooks, protesters demanded the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan after a string of exam paper leaks, technical glitches, and cancelled tests.
Last month, authorities scrapped the nationwide medical college entrance test, one of the country's most competitive exams after investigators uncovered a question paper leak.
That came on top of another scandal involving the online marking system of tests taken by nearly two million high school students.
"I followed them on Instagram for fun," Kushwaha said among the crowd.
"But there is a chance that we can actually get the minister to resign."
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Here is what is actually happening beneath the joke.
Half of India's 1.4 billion population is under 25, the largest Gen Z cohort in the world.
They were told to study hard. Get good grades. Pass the competitive exams. Get a job. Build a life.
The exams were leaked. The jobs were not there. The system they were told to trust failed them at every step.
And this is not just an India issue, that system runs in the entire world.
The BIG difference is...India has 1.4 billion people.
Dipke said:
"Those in power think citizens are cockroaches and parasites."
A generation that was handed a broken system and then called cockroaches for noticing it was broken did not get angry.
They got creative.
They took the insult. Turned it into an identity. Built a movement in three weeks. Marched in the capital on Saturday.
But here's the thing:
22 million followers & only 100s joined the movement if the numbers coming in are accurate.
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Here is why this is not just India's story.
In America, entry-level jobs are down 35%.
Student loan debt crossed $1.8 trillion.
The generation that followed every rule their parents gave them is graduating into a market that no longer has a starting point.
In the UK, youth homeownership has collapsed. A generation with degrees is renting forever.
Every government on earth told its young people the same thing.
Study. Work hard. Trust the system.
The system failed. And they are noticing, simultaneously — in Delhi, in London, in New York, in Lagos and in Dar es salaam.
The truth is, the system might still be running for the next few years & the people wouldn't have noticed although it's flawed.
But, because of the internet, because of AI - the system is getting exposed faster than ever before.
Take care everyone.
I've been saying this for 20+ years now.
22 MILLION INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS.
DOUBLE MODI'S RULING PARTY.
AND HUNDREDS MARCHING IN NEW DELHI YESTERDAY.
---
May 15, 2026.
India's Supreme Court. Chief Justice Surya Kant during an open court hearing said "parasites" were attacking the system and equated young people "who don't get any employment or have any place in profession" to cockroaches.
He later clarified his remarks were directed at people with fraudulent degrees, not youth in general.
Abhijeet Dipke, a 30-year-old political communications graduate from Boston University read the remarks and posted one sentence on X.
"What if all cockroaches came together?"
On May 16, the day after the chief justice's remarks, he registered a website and social media accounts for the Cockroach Janata Party.
CJP.
A deliberate play on Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party — BJP.
3 weeks later, 22 million Instagram followers.
More than Modi's BJP.
More than the Indian National Congress, India's two largest political parties.
Combined following surpassed by a joke account created in one afternoon.
---
Yesterday, Saurav Kushwaha, 17, packed a change of clothes and boarded an overnight train from his village in Madhya Pradesh to reach New Delhi.
He rested on a footpath with his elder brother, waiting for Dipke to arrive from the United States.
Waving India's national flag and clutching schoolbooks, protesters demanded the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan after a string of exam paper leaks, technical glitches, and cancelled tests.
Last month, authorities scrapped the nationwide medical college entrance test, one of the country's most competitive exams after investigators uncovered a question paper leak.
That came on top of another scandal involving the online marking system of tests taken by nearly two million high school students.
"I followed them on Instagram for fun," Kushwaha said among the crowd.
"But there is a chance that we can actually get the minister to resign."
---
Here is what is actually happening beneath the joke.
Half of India's 1.4 billion population is under 25, the largest Gen Z cohort in the world.
They were told to study hard. Get good grades. Pass the competitive exams. Get a job. Build a life.
The exams were leaked. The jobs were not there. The system they were told to trust failed them at every step.
And this is not just an India issue, that system runs in the entire world.
The BIG difference is...India has 1.4 billion people.
Dipke said:
"Those in power think citizens are cockroaches and parasites."
A generation that was handed a broken system and then called cockroaches for noticing it was broken did not get angry.
They got creative.
They took the insult. Turned it into an identity. Built a movement in three weeks. Marched in the capital on Saturday.
But here's the thing:
22 million followers & only 100s joined the movement if the numbers coming in are accurate.
---
Here is why this is not just India's story.
In America, entry-level jobs are down 35%.
Student loan debt crossed $1.8 trillion.
The generation that followed every rule their parents gave them is graduating into a market that no longer has a starting point.
In the UK, youth homeownership has collapsed. A generation with degrees is renting forever.
Every government on earth told its young people the same thing.
Study. Work hard. Trust the system.
The system failed. And they are noticing, simultaneously — in Delhi, in London, in New York, in Lagos and in Dar es salaam.
The truth is, the system might still be running for the next few years & the people wouldn't have noticed although it's flawed.
But, because of the internet, because of AI - the system is getting exposed faster than ever before.
Take care everyone.
I've been saying this for 20+ years now.
