Cockroach Janata Party
One of the numerous reactions on social media to the ban of CJP on X When a former student asked my opinion yesterday about Cockroach Janata Party [CJP], the satirical movement someone started as a joke on social media, my response was: “A rather unexpected reaction to an unsavoury remark. I don’t think it will make any headway. But the initiative was good and needed.” The Government of India had not banned CJP on X when I made that response. Now with the ban, I am driven to second thoughts. Modi’s government felt threatened when CJP’s followers [14 million] on Instagram overtook the BJP’s follower count on any social media. What any sensible government would do was to treat it as a joke that grew out of proportion and let it die on its own since most jokes have limited shelf life. Instead, the BJP got it blocked on X. Silly, indeed. The satirical party was formed when the Chief Justice of India [CJI] described India’s young unemployed as “cockroaches.” Interestingly, when X bloc...
