# The student behind ‘cockroach’ protests that forced an Indian minister to quit

https://mins.news/en/item/54425

- BBC News, 2026-09-11 00:27 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly749x4k2vo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Abhijeet Dipke became a public figure after responding to a chief justice’s comparison of jobless young people to “cockroaches” by helping launch the satirical Cockroach Janta Party. The movement drew mass support but also government-aligned trolling, while its website and X account were briefly blocked under India’s IT law.

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