Five months after its founding, India’s Cockroach Janta Party, known as the CJP, has revealed what youth-led democratic movements can achieve – and how hard they are to sustain. The movement was formed in May 2026 to protest the government’s cancellation of medical school entrance exams and after India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant likened unemployed […]

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The party’s appointment of Dushyant Kumar Gautam as Sikkim Governor has reignited protests over the alleged VIP link in Ankita Bhandari’s murder, raising questions about political patronage and women’s safety ahead of Assembly elections.

As air quality plummeted in India’s largest city, the government said it would act to curtail the haze that blankets the capital every winter.

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