Pakistan's 'Cockroach Awami Party' goes viral after India's CJP trend
The original movement, called the Cockroach Janta Party, emerged in India in mid-May after remarks attributed to a senior Indian judge referred to certain unemployed activists as "cockroaches" and "parasites" during a court hearing, sparking widespread online backlash.
A US-based public relations graduate launched the Cockroach Janta Party page days later as a satirical response, and it exploded in popularity, reportedly crossing tens of millions of Instagram followers within days and briefly overtaking the follower counts of India's two largest political parties.
Within days, similar green-and-white-branded pages began appearing on Pakistani social media, adopting near-identical formatting, mock manifestos, and cockroach-themed logos. One of the most visible pages, Cockroach Awami Party, openly acknowledged copying the format in its bio, describing itself candidly as inspired by the Indian original while positioning itself as a satirical political front for Pakistani youth.
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A related page calling itself Cockroach Awami League adopted its own Urdu-language slogans criticising the political establishment, while other accounts used taglines emphasising shared frustrations among young people on both sides of the border, framing the meme trend as something that transcended national rivalry.
None of the cockroach-themed pages in either country are registered as actual political parties, and the accounts function purely as satire rather than functioning political organisations.
