India news: Cockroaches overtake Modi's BJP on Instagram
Key takeaways
- Millions of young Indians are following the Cockroach Janata Party Instagram account, symbolic of growing frustration towards the current political system.
- The CJP had less than a million followers on Tuesday which quickly grew to over three million followers on Wednesday morning and more than 10.8 million followers on Thursday.
- We are just hours away from overtaking the world's largest party on Instagram," CJP's founder Abhijeet Dipke said in a post on Wednesday evening.
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Millions of young Indians are following the Cockroach Janata Party Instagram account, symbolic of growing frustration towards the current political system. Meanwhile, Delhi sizzles at 46 degrees Celcius. DW has more
https://p.dw.com/p/5E4h EThe Cockroach Janata Party was created as a satirical criticism of the Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant who likened India's unemployed youth to cockroaches Image: Mahima Kapoor/ DWAdvertisement Skip next section What you need to know What you need to know Cockroach Janata Party gets over 10 million followers on Instagram in days, overtaking India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party Delhi suffers with maximum temperature of 46 degrees Celsius, amid heatwave Here are the some of the main headlines that have got India talking on Thursday, May 21:
05/21/2026May 21, 2026Modi's BJP is facing a 'Cockroach' infestationA parody political party, the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), gathered millions of followers within 24 hours on Meta-owned social media platform Instagram to overtake theworld's largest political party — Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)