He wrote on X that the group, which is not an official political party, was already working on a new “home” and added: “Cockroaches never die.”
Its official X page – with more than 200,000 followers – is also inaccessible in the country. Those trying to open it are shown a message that it has been withheld “in response to a legal demand”.
Dipke, a political communications strategist and student at Boston University in the US, has also claimed both his personal Instagram and the group’s have been hacked.
The CJP – or the cockroach people’s party – satirises the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been in power since 2014.
The group claims to be “the voice of the lazy and unemployed”. Its tongue-in-cheek membership criteria include being chronically online and having “the ability to rant professionally”.
