One cannot but appreciate the incumbent Chief Justice of India Surya Kant’s extensive knowledge of entomology.

During a Supreme Court hearing on 15 May 2026 on a contempt petition related to senior advocate designations and use of fraudulent professional credentials, his Lordship remarked ‘there are youngsters like cockroaches, who don’t get any employment, or have any place in the profession. Some of them become media, some of them become social media, RTI activists, and other activists, and they start attacking everyone.’

Through a moment’s indiscretion, the person occupying one of India’s lofty constitutional offices compared the unemployed Indian youth to the cockroach. An insect commonly inhabiting dirty, dingy and long-forgotten crevice, trashcan, and filthy quagmire which modern India, under Narendra Modi and his gang has degenerated into.

Moreover, the cockroach is one the most resilient among insects. Having pest controllers consider change of profession.

The very next day of his Lordship’s faux pas, a certain Abhijeet Dipke, a Maharastrian Dalit, who mastered in Public Relations from Boston University, and who had previously worked on digital campaigns for the Aam Admi Party, announced the launch of a platform ‘for all the cockroaches out there’ on X. He satirically christened it, the Cockroach Janta Party(CJP), to rhyme with,  and parodying Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been governing India since 2014, captained by the never-say-die, effervescent, and muscularly(pun intended) nationalistic Narendra Modi, and his ‘council of servants’.

Dipke listed unemployment (by force, choice or principle), laziness (only to physical activity), tendency to be online chronically (at least 11 hours daily, including bathroom breaks) and ability to rant professionally as eligibility criteria to enroll in the CJP. The party’s website went live on May 16 under the tagline ‘voice of the lazy & unemployed’. Dipke claimed that the CJP wasn’t affiliated to any known political organization, or heavyweight politician.

The CJP released a five-point manifesto as well:

  1. No Chief justice shall be awarded a Rajya Sabha seat as post-retirement reward
  2. If any legitimate voter ID is deleted, the Chief Election Commissioner shall be arrested under the UAPA, as taking away voting rights is ‘no less than terrorism’
  3. Women shall receive 50% reservation, instead of 33% without increasing the strength of Parliament. 50% of all cabinet positions shall be reserved for women
  4. All media houses owned by Adani group and Reliance shall have their licenses cancelled to make way for independent media. Bank accounts of ‘Godi’ media anchors’ shall be investigated
  5. Any MLA or MP involved in floor-crossing shall be barred from contesting elections, and holding public office for 20 years. 

Additional points suggested by activist Anjali Bardhwaj and accepted by the party include:

  • The party shall be answerable under the RTI Act
  • It shall not establish a secret ‘Cockroach CARES Fund’ (in reference to the PM CARES Fund)

Realizing that he had caught the tiger by its tail, His Lordship Justice Kant went on damage-control. On May 16, he clarified that his remarks had been misquoted, and that he specifically criticized individuals who donned the black gown using fake and bogus degrees, and not the country’s unemployed youth.

But, his Lordship’s clarification came tad late. The fallout of his tongue-in-cheek remark was overwhelming. Within 72 hours of CJP’s launch, its Instagram account crossed 3 million followers. It’s X handle crossed 200,000 followers. 350,000 members registered through online forms. India’s youth, particularly those belonging to Gen Z, and their parents disillusioned and frustrated at the disastrous outcome of 2026 version of the annual NEET tamasha, which is a qualifying exam taken annually by lakhs of students aspiring to be doctors catalyzed the CJP blitzkrieg.

 The ashen central government taken aback by the ‘cockroach uprising’ claimed that substantial numbers of cockroaches were those from across the LOC!- the centre’s favorite escape door.

This year, the CBSE rubbed salt into the gruesome NEET gash, while declaring crucial classes X and XII results. Thousands of students reported unexpected failures, shockingly low marks, and severely blurred answer sheets. Students and ethical hackers exposed severe flaws in the Board’s newly-introduced On-screen Marking Digital Evaluation System. The center responded despicably, as it usually does in uncomfortable situations. It singled out students who red-flagged the Board’s inefficiency for special treatment. Physical threats, character-assassination, labeling them ‘anti-nationals’, and even as Pakistani nationals followed.  It was over this slush and stinking morass of a corrupt educational system, headed by the inept Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan that the cockroaches fluttered about in droves.

The day of reckoning was June 6, 2026 when CJP, the thus far, online satirical movement decided to organize a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. The intention was to peacefully protest,  demanding the resignation of the villain of the times, Union Education Minister, who dismembered the future of lakhs of students, causing anguish to their parents through one of the world’s most corrupt educational establishments. The protest was subdued to begin with, later to swell as many arrived from neighboring states demanding the Minister’s resignation.

The fact that the current Indian establishment, intolerant to protests and expressions of disillusionment by citizens permitted the protest in the first place had many wonder if the cockroaches had indeed succeeded, for the first instant since 2014 in unsettling the centre, known to take such expressions by the horn, and quell them employing its various agencies. Others argued that the Modi government played its cards well by permitting the protest. As disallowing it would have justified it. Only time will tell if the government permitting the cockroaches’ congregation would eventually steal the wind out of their sails.

It was indeed a huge relief that the protest was largely incident-free. Did the cockroaches achieve what they meant to by protesting? Absolutely Not. They failed to have the Education Minister’s head turn one bit.

The protest is done and dusted. Now what? Will a satirical movement kick- started by a moment’s indiscretion of a person, not only occupying a very important constitutional office, but also happens to be the constitution’s custodian evolve into a national movement? Or, Will it fizzle out? As a flash in the pan?

Will the cockroaches rise up to hope and expectation they kindled, at least momentarily in thousands of frustrated and disillusioned Indians, who have been browbeaten and reduced to refugees in their own country by a ruling establishment operating ruthlessly with an iron fist to realize an agenda of national derailment?

Is the CJP meant to be the mouthpiece only of the so-called Gen-Z (a terminology adopted in the classification of human beings of modern times that defies discernment and logic)? Is it not tailor-made for other generations too? Will the cockroaches flutter about only in cyberspace and the internet? Won’t Indian streets frequented by the common man also be their habitat? As a lackluster Jantar Mantar protest had many wonder?

Is only the so-called Gen-Z, comprising just 30% of India’s population, and constituting 25% of India’s electorate the cockroaches’ target population?     

Aren’t the cockroaches equipped to react against, and show the door to a long list of ills that have destroyed the very idea and foundation of Indian nationhood? After all, correcting them alone would arm the cockroaches with a pan-India image, appealing to rest of the population other than the Gen-Z. To achieve this, the cockroaches need to achieve a lot. A huge peek awaits conquering.

They must ensure that;

  • Indians forsake the discourteous habit of peeping into their neighbors’ kitchens to ensure beef isn’t on the stove. 
  • The centre gives up disruptive efforts to divide India into two; based on states governed by, and those not governed by the ‘double engine’. The two engines being (1) constituted by the BJP government in state assemblies and, (2) that at the centre. Which translates as; ‘only states electing BJP to govern them would stand to develop, while those who do not better will fend for themselves’.

Alms the Prime Minister offered to the then Chief Minister, belonging to the CPM after an aerial survey over Kerala drowned by the 2018 Southwest Monsoon hasn’t been forgotten yet.

  • India ceases to be a nation specializing in archeology; digging up mosques to look for evidence of temples that might have existed in their place eons ago. Instead of digging up the past, India must set her eyes on a glorious future.
  • Whoever governs in Delhi must give up the good-old habit of misusing central agencies under its control to trample underfoot the opposition, which ought to be respected, and in fact nurtured.
  • The bully at the center’s vile and under-the-table palm-greasing of elected lawmakers to shred apart opposition parties, and engineer horse-trading to increase the ruling party’s numerical strength in Parliament and state assemblies. As in Maharashtra, Delhi and West Bengal. This makes laughing stock of so-called democracy and the electorate.
  • The word ‘sedition’ is removed from the lexicon in India. Whosoever uses that word must be punished severely. The only party, and organization that have been truly seditious is the BJP and sister concerns of the Sangh Parivar respectively, going by their track record. The word has been misused to incarcerate and do away with many, who the establishment considers thorns in its flesh. 
  • The Parliament ceases to be the ‘national market’. Money wasted on washed-out Parliamentary sessions resultant of hooliganism of lawmakers must be recovered from them. The exchequer need not pay for wasted sessions.
  • Rich business houses like those of Adani and Ambani cease to enjoy the fruits of governmental favoritism, and most-favored status. It is the Indian middle class which pay taxes religiously than millionaires, which powers India.
  • Healthcare and education are freed from stranglehold of over-corporatization and attendant ills. Lives of the sick and future of the youth are meant to be restored and secured. It is the nation’s sacred duty to do so.
  • The establishment relinquishes every iota of control over the fourth estate. Control even in miniscule terms begets absolute silencing. Free press is an index of a democracy’s health.
  • Citizens are known as just Indians, and not by their faith, caste, creed, or even gender. Forms meant to be filled by citizens for various purposes must cease seeking such details. Only citizens’ nationality and documents supporting the same must be sought for.
  • Religion and personal laws cease to dictate social elements like marriage, divorce, alimony, and inheritance. If it takes a common civil code to achieve this. The same must be drawn up and imposed straightaway.
  • Religious conversion, one of the most disruptive practices standing in the way of national harmony is banned across all faiths. Zero tolerance must be applied to conversion. Religion must strictly be practiced as personal way of life, and none else.
  • The Chief Election Commissioner is dealt with aptly (read severely) for attempts to disenfranchise citizens on any pretext, like the SIR undertaken in recent times. Such measures are meant to derail the electoral process, and compromise democracy.
  • The establishment in no way attempts to control dietary habit of citizens based on religious or any other pretext, other than health-related.
  • The ruling establishment will have no involvement in the appointment of, or nominating persons to important constitutional posts like the Chief Justice, Chief Election Commissioner, the President, governors, and chiefs of armed forces. Appointment of those favored by the establishment is recipe for manipulation to its advantage.
  • Vain and meaningless attempts to rename places, streets, stadia and other public amenities, and to modify structures of national importance, on the excuse of doing away with ‘colonial hangover’ are made punishable. Such exercises bleed the exchequer.  
  • Fuss over changing India’s name to Bharat is forsaken. Name doesn’t impact anything. Nor does it make things better.
  • Practice of building mega statues, stadia and structures meant as public amenities in the name of politicians, living or dead is given up. A starving nation cannot afford them. The same must apply to tendencies to build temples in which ‘national leaders’ like a certain Nathuram Godse are deities. One such exists inside the Akhil Bharat Hindu mahasabha office in Gwalior. Such trends are extremely dangerous to the nation. For they assassinate nationhood.
  • The so-called union budget, drawn up by the Union Finance Minister an exercise to bulldoze the opposition, and opposition-ruled states and to self-congratulate the government, and to fuel the ‘double-engine’ must be drawn up by prominent economists with absolutely no political moorings, and not by ‘finance ministers incapable of winning elections to set foot in Parliament.
  • Violence against women in workplaces, homes, and public places are met with an iron fist. Female feticide must cease to be. Empty chest-beating rhetoric like ‘nari sakthi’, and other such, with which the Prime Minister shouts from behind lecterns during electioneering, are but election campaign sloganeering and crocodile tears. Vinesh Phogat is the symptom of that malady, caused by the contagion, Brij bhushan Sharan Singh. While Vinesh who won glory for India as a grappler gropes in the dark, the contagion roams about carefree, without remorse. Such audacious violation of womanhood must end. 
  • Respect for persons occupying high offices like chiefs of armed forces, the president, Chief justice and governors is best earned, and not demanded.
  • The tendency of misleading the nation using false narratives through favorable media like films, media and advertisements is done and dusted. False narratives tear the nation usunder. The Vande mathram hara-kiri is one of them. Films like ‘The Kerala Story’, and ‘Kashmir Files’, add to the list.
  • Childish directives to Indian sportspersons not to shake hands, as expression of sportsmanship, should the opponents happen to be Pakistanis are withdrawn. It is any time better not to engage in sport with Pakistan, than to make donkeys out of Indian sportspersons in sporting arenas.

To achieve these, the cockroaches must change their habitat from cyberspace to Indian terra ferma. They must strive to be a pan-India force, addressing the numerous aforementioned issues.

Should his lordship, Justice Kant need another species to compare citizens of this country with in future, the donkey is humbly suggested. For that is exactly what Indians have been in their country, since 1947, and especially after 2014- helpless donkeys.