In India, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) youth group will face challenges in translating its online popularity into an influential and sustained political movement, but worsening economic grievances may facilitate the movement's growth. Since its formation in mid-May, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has amassed over 20 million social media followers and is now attempting to convert this growing online presence into street-level youth mobilization. Founder Abhijeet Dipke returned from Boston, the United States, to India on June 6 to organize protests demanding the education minister's resignation over recent scandals involving school entrance exams. The group has since staged protests in New Delhi (June 6), Pune (June 11), Lucknow (June 12), Amritsar (June 13), Hyderabad (June 14) and Jaipur (June 15). However, reported turnout at these events reached only the hundreds to low thousands at most, highlighting the movement's struggle to garner broader political support. In particular, the CJP has...
