Quick answer: Between 23 and 24 May 2026, CJP’s digital presence was wiped out across platforms: Instagram access was lost, the X account was withheld in India, the .org website was blocked under Section 69A, and the backup account was removed. BJP leaders claimed CJP’s growth came from Pakistan-linked followers. Alt News reviewed the claim and found the Pakistan narrative false.
They deleted 22 million cockroaches from the internet. But cockroaches do not only live in accounts. They live in nests.
The 36-hour wipeout
In a short window between 23 and 24 May 2026, the Cockroach Janta Party’s online presence was hit across multiple platforms. The movement’s Instagram account had reportedly reached 21.9 million followers. Its X account was withheld in India. Its main website was blocked. Even the backup account was removed.
- X/Twitter: CJP’s account was withheld in India under a MeitY order.
- Instagram: the main account, which had grown to 21.9 million followers, was hacked and access was lost.
- Website: cockroachjantaparty.org was blocked in India under Section 69A.
- Backup account: @cockroachisback, which had gathered nearly 2 lakh followers, was also removed.
Four platforms. Thirty-six hours. One movement.
“Cockroaches don’t have accounts. They have nests.”
The Pakistan explanation
While the accounts were disappearing, BJP leaders and allies pushed a different explanation: Pakistan.
The claim was that CJP’s viral growth was not actually Indian youth anger, but foreign-linked manipulation. A chart circulated online claiming that large shares of CJP’s Instagram audience came from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other countries, with India shown as only a small portion.
That framing was politically useful. If millions of young Indians were angry, then the issue was unemployment, exams, representation, and accountability. But if those same young Indians could be labelled foreign-linked, then a youth movement could be treated like a national security threat.
What Alt News found
Alt News reviewed the claim and found the Pakistan-followers narrative false. CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke had shared Instagram audience analytics showing that the movement’s audience was overwhelmingly India-based.
- India: 94.7%
- United States: around 1%
- United Kingdom: around 0.7%
- Canada: around 0.6%
- UAE: around 0.6%
Pakistan did not appear in the top countries.
So the question remains: if the audience was overwhelmingly Indian, why were young Indians being described through a Pakistan narrative?
The sequence matters
The order of events is the story.
- CJP grew rapidly after unemployed youth were compared to cockroaches.
- BJP-linked voices pushed the Pakistan-followers claim.
- The movement’s digital infrastructure was blocked, hacked, withheld, or removed.
- Alt News fact-checked the Pakistan claim and found it false.
- But by then, the accounts were already gone.
The disinformation came first. The deletion followed. The fact-check came after the damage had already been done.
What was actually being deleted?
The accounts were not doing espionage. They were doing politics.
They were carrying public anger around exam failures, unemployment, youth representation, and the demand for accountability. A petition demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had reportedly gathered lakhs of signatures before the website went down.
Calling that a foreign operation does not erase the fact that the anger was Indian.
The nest survived
The accounts are gone. The community site is not.
The blog is live. The join form is live. The manifesto is live. The badge is still here. The movement moved from platform to platform because that is what cockroaches do when someone turns the lights on.
The cockroach metaphor was supposed to insult unemployed youth. Instead, it became the perfect description of what happened next.
You can delete an account. You can block a website. You can call Indian youth Pakistani. But you cannot make the nest forget.
They deleted us. We are still here.
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