Nelson John 360
In six days, a satirical political party went from zero to nearly fifteen million Instagram followers ahead of the BJP and the Congress. It started on May 15 when CJI Surya Kant called some unemployed youth “cockroaches” from the bench of the Supreme Court. By May 21, the project’s X handle had been withheld in India by legal demand. In this episode, we trace the rise of the Cockroach Janata Party from a courtroom soundbite to a full-blown political moment the founder, the manifesto, and the underlying frustrations that made it travel this fast.
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