Abhijeet Dipke

Abhijeet Dipke is a 30-year-old Dalit activist and digital political organizer from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra. He earned his undergraduate degree in journalism from Pune before pursuing graduate study in public relations at Boston University, graduating in 2025. Prior to his graduate studies, Dipke worked with the Aam Aadmi Party's social media team from 2020 to 2023, where he developed expertise in meme-based political campaigning and digital youth engagement during the 2020 Delhi Assembly elections.

Dipke founded the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) in May 2026 as a satirical political movement responding to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant's remarks characterizing India's unemployed youth as "parasites" and "cockroaches." The CJP rapidly became a viral phenomenon, gaining over 20 million Instagram followers and attracting 46,000 signups within 48 hours, positioning itself as a youth-led digital political platform focused on Generation Z concerns around unemployment, education pressure, and government accountability. The movement's manifesto proposes significant reforms, including raising women's parliamentary reservation to 55 percent and preventing Chief Justices from receiving Rajya Sabha appointments after retirement.

In June 2026, Dipke transitioned from digital activism to street-level organizing, leaving the United States to return to India and lead NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) medical exam reform protests, announcing his commitment with "#JaiBhim." He has positioned the CJP as a mechanism to mobilize youth toward concrete civic action, including filing Right to Information requests and demanding ministerial accountability.