From Nagavalli-style theatrics to selective outrage, the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) seem determined to turn constitutional protest into an ideological dance-off. Many of us have watched Apthamitra or Akshay Kumar’s Bhool Bhulaiyaa, where Ganga slowly transforms into the formidable Nagavalli. Well, it appears our CJP protestors are undergoing a transformation of their own! Like Nagavalli lifting a bed to demonstrate her supernatural strength, these Convenient Justice Plead

The manicured streets of uptown Mumbai’s Bandra and Khar areas have long fostered a peculiar breed of celebrity activism that routinely mistakes the shield of an elite lineage for immunity from national law. Imran Khan, the nephew of Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, has enjoyed the multi-layered privileges of India’s entertainment aristocracy. Despite a career defined far more by inherited access than by cinematic triumph, Khan was handed high-profile launches on a silver platter.

When the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) demands institutional accountability, a perfectly legitimate question follows: who audits the CJP? The question is not meant as a clever political jab. It is the logical test of any movement that claims to hold institutions accountable. CJP presents itself as a political movement demanding accountability from the judiciary, Election Commission, Parliament and other institutions. Its manifesto, for instance, calls for restrictions on post-

Mumbai: Jumping into the Election Commission of India (ECI) row, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke served an open ultimatum to the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, demanding he must resign “within 48 hours”, on Thursday. Launching a blistering attack on Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commission of India (ECI), Dipke labeled him as “the biggest anti-national” for allegedly undermining the citizens’ voting rights through the ongoing Special Intensive

Ever since the protests at Jantar Mantar over the NEET paper leak, Gen-Z and its zealous outbursts against several issues in society are quickly becoming national headlines. Ranchi saw Gen-Z protesting against irregularities in the functioning of JPSC and JSSC. CJP started the ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign against mismanagement of schools in villages. Even an individual woman tourist in Jammu and Kashmir attempted, single-handedly, to lead a protest against the Indian Army for

The grand narrative constructed around Abhijeet Dipke and his self-styled Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), which was at the forefront of the NEET exam paper leak protests, is now unravelling rapidly under basic factual verification. Designed as a viral, internet-fuelled pressure front, Dipke’s crusade presented itself as an organic revolt of students frustrated with the lapses in the Indian education system. However, a closer examination of Dipke’s timelines, credentials and digi