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Apart from the anger and acrimony expressed across the country over Chief Justice of India Surya Kant’s remarks in the Supreme Court that unemployed youth are like parasites and cockroaches which he has clarified as well, there is widespread discussion in public sphere, media and social media on the cockroach issue in the wake of the formation of an online satirical party Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) by Abhijit Dipke and suspension of its X account and banning of its website by the Narendra Modi regime.

The CJP projecting itself as the “Voice of the Lazy and Unemployed,” is deeply engaged in the digital world employing AI-generated images and dark humour to release Gen Z frustrations and launch protests against exam paper leaks, unemployment, and erosion of institutional accountability.

Insensitivity to youth

As the website got signed by a hooping 10 lakh people and its handle in Instagram and X got unprecedented support of millions of Indians leaving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) far behind, it commanded attention of the whole country and editorials were written in major national and regional newspapers.

It is well known that CJI described unemployed youth as cockroaches and parasites by stating that they fail to get jobs and end up joining journalism, social media and emerge as RTI activists to attack the system. Of course, he issued a clarification suggesting his oral observations on those with fake degrees entering legal profession have been twisted by media by misquoting him.

That clarification did not douse the fury of the youth.

Also read: Nehru Described Zamindars and Royalty as Parasites, Not Unemployed Youth, Like the CJI Did

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