Campus Cockroaches: How CJP Has Taken Over India's University Hostels, Libraries and Notice Boards

From Delhi University's North Campus to IIT Bombay's hostel corridors to Anna University's canteens, the Cockroach Janta Party has arrived on Indian campuses without a single official launch event. Students are printing CJP posters themselves, forming unofficial campus chapters, and playing the party's satirical anthem on hostel speakers during study breaks. Outlook India visits five universities across three states and finds a generation that is simultaneously exhausted by exam pressure, furious at the job market, and deeply amused — for the first time in years — by a political movement that speaks their exact language.