{"id":33672,"date":"2026-05-27T17:46:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/33672\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:46:50","slug":"cockroach-janta-party-indias-youth-turn-judges-jab-into-viral-political-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/33672\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cockroach Janta Party\u2019: India\u2019s youth turn judge\u2019s jab into viral political movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"\u2018Cockroach Janta Party\u2019: India\u2019s youth turn judge\u2019s jab into viral political movement\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aYd3mNIL1XI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u2018Cockroach Janta Party\u2019: India\u2019s youth turn judge\u2019s jab into viral political movement<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA satirical political movement has gone viral amongst India\u2019s youth with an unusual mascot at the helm: the cockroach. The \u201cCockroach Janta Party&#8221; was born after India\u2019s Chief Justice referred to unemployed youth as \u201ccockroaches.\u201d Though he later said he was misquoted, his comments ricocheted online. As outrage escalated, 30-year old Abhijeet Dipke asked on X: &#8220;What if all cockroaches come together?&#8221; and the satirical movement now has\u00a0nearly 23 million Instagram followers and counting.<br \/>\n#cockroachjantaparty #narendramod #indianyouth<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Cockroach Janta Party\u2019: India\u2019s youth turn judge\u2019s jab into viral political movement A satirical political movement has gone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,34672,16555,34673,37,34674,21667,34675,33204,13352,22,23,20,21,14922,34671,588,34676,3512,5935,19719,5257,735,5938,42,34677,5790,6269,34678],"class_list":["post-33672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-fake-news","tag-aam-aadmi-party","tag-anti-corruption","tag-anti-government-protest","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bharatiya-janata-party","tag-bjp","tag-cockroach-janata-party","tag-cockroach-janta-party","tag-democracy","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-freedom-of-the-press","tag-gen-z","tag-india","tag-indian-youth","tag-instagram","tag-internet","tag-narendra-modi","tag-press-freedom","tag-protest","tag-satire","tag-social-media","tag-viral-movement","tag-x-formerly-twitter","tag-youth","tag-youth-movement"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}