The Women Behind India's Cockroach Revolution: The Unofficial CJP Organisers Nobody Is Talking About

While the Cockroach Janta Party's founding story centres on Abhijeet Dipke, the people who have kept it alive and growing are often women — first-year college students running WhatsApp groups, graphic designers making free CJP poster packs, content creators translating the party's message into twelve regional languages. The Swaddle profiles eight unofficial CJP organisers across India who have each contributed more to the movement's spread than any centralised campaign, and asks what it means that a satirical political party's ground floor has been built largely by women the party hasn't thought to acknowledge.