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2026-09-25 · Aljazeera

India’s ‘cockroach’ movement demands election chief’s resignation

India’s ‘cockroach’ party youth movement has threatened to launch nationwide protests unless the country’s chief election officer does not resign by Saturday. Founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) , Abhijeet Dipke, announced on Friday that protests would begin in Mumbai on October 2 – if Gyanesh Kumar does not step down. The CJP, a satirical outfit born on Instagram in May after India’s chief justice compared unemployed young Indians to “cockroaches” and “parasites”, has shaken the staunchly conservative government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On Thursday, the group demanded that Kumar quit within 48 hours, following a newspaper report linking him to altered voter lists.

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