Being started as a spontaneous satirical internet protest against CJI’s insulting remarks comparing the unemployed youth of India as “cockroaches” and “parasites”, the Cockroach Janata Party has stepped off the viral world into the real world of action holding its street protest in Jantar Mantar on 6 June 2026. The CJP’s demand for the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, exposition of Exam Scams, Paper Leaks and shortcomings of related digital infrastructure, protest against unemployment, corruption and total erosion of administrative accountability, and so on under the crony-capitalist fascist regime, which is rotten to the core, need support and solidarity from all well- meaning people.
Of course, this is not the time to go for an evaluation of the ideological underpinnings of the CJP. Rather than a digital outlet relaying youth’s frustration, the relevance of CJP in the days ahead depends on the extent to which it can overcome or fill the gap between digital popularity and real-world mobilisation of youth, in tune with its declared position.
In the meanwhile, firmly upholding the inalienable right of the students and youth to organize, protest, and make their voices heard, it is the task of all progressive-democratic forces, irrespective of their ideological-political persuasion, to declare solidarity and support the CJP from the perspective of building up the broadest anti-fascist unity of the people.
Party Centre
CPI (ML) Red Star
New Delhi
08.06.2026
