Cockroch Janta Party website
When the Chief Justice of India compared the unemployed, lazy, chronically online youth who rant against the system to cockroaches (a comment which he retracted later), Boston University graduate student Abhijeet Dipke, with help of anonymous friends and ChatGPT, made a satire political outfit named Cockroach Janta Party.
Within a week it became world’s fastest growing online political movement, gathering hundred thousand signups in website and 20 million followers in Instagram, surpassing India’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party and main opposition party Indian National Congress combined. Its AI-generated videos and meme content caught the fancy of GenZ of India. Government crackdown in form of blocking its X handle for “threat to national security” also helped in its popularity.
