CJP Series🪳 Part 2 of 12

CJP's manifesto: cancel all Ambani-Adani media licences, independent press, address unemployment, clean governance. Real demands. Specific targets. Delivered via Instagram by a political party whose HQ is a student's laptop in Boston. The manifesto is being compared to the Communist Manifesto. This comparison is not accurate but is very funny.

By Shyam Mudireddy, BreakingBakwas Political Correspondent  |  May 22, 2026

NEW DELHI (BY WAY OF BOSTON) — The Cockroach Janta Party manifesto was written by Abhijeet Dipke in the first week of May 2026, and it contains specific demands that distinguish it from the manifestos of most established Indian political parties in one significant way: it says what it will actually do. Most Indian political party manifestos say what the party wants you to believe they intend to do, which is a different thing. The CJP manifesto says: cancel the licences of all media houses owned by Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani. This is specific. You know who it names. You know what it wants. You either agree or you don't. This clarity is unusual in Indian political documents, where most demands are phrased as "ensure greater transparency in" or "promote inclusive development of" which mean everything and commit to nothing.

The Ambani-Adani media licences demand is the manifesto's centrepiece and its most viral element. Ambani's Reliance owns Network18, which includes CNBC-TV18, CNN-News18, News18 India, and over forty regional channels. Adani's NDTV was acquired controversially in 2022. Together, the two conglomerates own a significant portion of India's broadcast media. The CJP's demand is not that these businessmen stop existing. It is that their media licences be cancelled so that independent journalism can function. This is a demand that has been made by press freedom organisations, journalists' unions, opposition politicians, and international media watchdogs for years. The CJP put it in a manifesto, posted it on Instagram, and got 19 million followers. The press freedom organisations have been making this point for three years and have received considerably fewer followers. The cockroach is more compelling than the press release. This is now documented.

🪳 CJP Official Manifesto — Annotated By BreakingBakwas

  • "Cancel licences of all media houses owned by Ambani and Adani." — Specific. Actionable. Has named names. No other party manifesto has named names this directly since 1977. The CJP has named names in week one. There will be consequences. The CJP does not appear concerned about consequences. This is either courage or the specific fearlessness of a person outside Indian jurisdiction.
  • "Make way for a truly independent media." — Standard demand. But in the context of the first point, it means something concrete. The CJP is not asking for "media reform." It is asking for the current owners to leave and to be replaced by independence. Specific. Unprecedented in scale of demand if not in principle.
  • "Address unemployment and rising living costs." — The demand that represents the 19 million followers. India's 18.7% urban youth unemployment rate, the AI jobs displacement, the gap between engineering degree production and meaningful employment (see earlier BreakingBakwas article on AI and IT jobs), the EMI that cannot be paid on a ₹14 lakh salary. The CJP has not specified how it will address this. The CJP is a satirical party. But the anger behind the demand is completely real and statistically documented.
  • "Clean governance." — Every party says this. The CJP says it after pointing a cockroach at Ambani, Adani, and the media landscape. The context changes the sentence. In the CJP context, "clean governance" means: what you have now is not this. This is the rotten place cockroaches breed in. You created the cockroach. Now govern cleanly or the cockroach will keep breeding.
  • Symbol: The Cockroach. — Cannot be killed. Survives everything. Thrives in conditions of rot and neglect. Has been here longer than every party on the ballot. Will be here after all of them. The most accurate symbol for the Indian voter that any party has ever chosen. By accident. Which makes it more accurate.
"Nothing of this was intentional."— Abhijeet Dipke, CJP founder, to the Associated Press, explaining that the movement's 19-million-follower explosion was not planned. It is worth sitting with this sentence for a moment. The most viral political movement in India's 2026 was not planned. It emerged from one remark by one judge, processed by one 30-year-old in Boston, and amplified by 19 million people whose frustration was already fully formed and required only a cockroach to name itself. The frustration was there. The cockroach arrived. The match was instant. This is not a political strategy. This is what happens when a country's youth have been waiting for permission to be angry and someone says: here is your insect. Go.
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Disclaimer: Satire. CJP manifesto demands are documented from AP, CNN, and Al Jazeera reporting. The media ownership figures are from documented industry data. The cockroach's survival record is scientifically documented. — Ed.