Can India’s cockroach party become a political movement?

Can India’s cockroach party become a political movement?

The government is betting that the answer is no

ABHIJEET DIPKE, the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, predicted that when he landed at Delhi airport he would be arrested and the protest he had planned would be banned. That might have sounded a bit dramatic for a man who, a month ago, was posting memes from his home in Boston, in America. But Mr Dipke has accidentally found himself at the helm of a movement. His party, which began as a joke in response to a nasty comment made by the Supreme Court of India’s chief justice about the country’s jobless young, has attracted millions of followers. As it went viral, the Indian government’s first response was to try to squash it.

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