"What if all cockroaches came together?" The accidental party that rattled Delhi
i ndia · Politics · May 21, 2026 "What if all cockroaches came together?" The accidental party that rattled Delhi A 30-year-old kid in Boston posted a meme. Five days later, 3.7 million people had followed him. Here's how it actually happened. 6 min read New Delhi / Boston Sources: Al Jazeera, The Tribune, Zee News, Wikipedia, Republic World Abhijeet Dipke hadn't planned any of it. He was a 30-year-old student at Boston University, somewhere between finishing a public relations degree and figuring out what came next, when a Supreme Court judge in India decided to call unemployed young people cockroaches. On a Friday. In open court. By Saturday, Dipke had registered a party. By Tuesday, over a lakh people had signed up. By this morning May 21 the Cockroach Janta Party had 3.7 million social media followers, two sitting Members of Parliament holding honorary membership cards, and reporters from Al Jazeera calling him in Chicago while he ran on maybe four hours of sle...