The website of India's viral political parody group 'Cockroach' has been blocked. Abhijit Deep, the founder of the group, gave this information on Saturday (May 23).
The Cockroach Janata Party was launched after the country's Chief Justice Surya Kant remarked that a section of unemployed youth behaved like 'cockroaches'. According to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, those youths started working as journalists, social media users or right to information activists without getting a place in any profession and attacked everyone. After Chief Justice Surya Kanter's comments sparked online outrage, a group of unemployed youth decided to organize. The 'Cockroach Janata Party' or CJP was born. They emerged as a satirical political party on the Internet. The work of gathering members of the party also started on the net.
The 'Telapoka' party website is no longer accessible in India and appears to be down elsewhere as well.
Abhijit Deep, the group's founder, said Indian officials had “shut down our iconic website”.
He raised the question, “Why are officials so afraid of cockroaches?”
The group, which is not a formal political party, is already working on a new 'website', he wrote in X, saying, “Cockroaches never die.”
Their official X page is also not accessible in India. Those who try to open it, are shown a message saying that it is on hold 'due to a legal claim'.
Deep claimed that both his personal Instagram and the group's account were hacked.
Incidentally, the name CJP or Cockroach Janata Party – is a satirical imitation of the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
