Cockroach Janta Party explodes online as Akhilesh Yadav, Mahua Moitra extend support - Who has joined? Hint: 12M

Key points

• Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), which started as a political satire on X following comments from Chief Justice of India () Surya Kant on unemployed youth, has snowballed into a huge movement on the internet with lakhs of Indians and personalities joining in.
• What first meant as a satire has now become a full-fledged outfit of 12 million Indians, with political personalities such as Akhilesh Yadav, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, Mahua Moitra and Kirti Azad backing it.
• Kirti Azad and Mahua Moitra were one of the first politicians to have signed up to be members of the unofficial political outfit which defines itself as “a political front of the youth, by the youth, for the youth.” Akhilesh Yadav, after joining the satire Instagram account, wrote on Since its launch in April 2026, the CJP has amassed nearly 12 million followers – surpassing that of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has...