INDIA — India has forty-seven registered national and state parties. Every single one of them has been forced to have an opinion about a cockroach this week. The opinions vary by party, by calculation, and by the specific political mathematics of whether the CJP helps or hurts their vote bank. A comprehensive assessment:

Samajwadi Party (Akhilesh Yadav): Watching from UP with the careful interest of a party that governs Uttar Pradesh's opposition and knows that the CJP's youth unemployment message lands hardest in UP, which has the country's highest youth unemployment numbers. Akhilesh Yadav has not endorsed the CJP but has made several statements about youth unemployment that are close enough to CJP messaging to constitute an editorial endorsement without a formal one. The SP's youth wing has been posting CJP memes on WhatsApp. The SP's leadership has not noticed this or is pretending not to have noticed it. Both are possible.

BSP (Mayawati): No comment. Mayawati does not comment on things she has not personally initiated. The cockroach is not something Mayawati personally initiated. The cockroach will not receive a comment. This is consistent with Mayawati's communication strategy since approximately 2019, which is to exist at a distance from viral moments and issue statements about Dalit welfare that the media then processes through a CJP filter anyway. Mayawati is fine with this. Mayawati is always fine with her strategy. Whether the strategy is fine is a different question.

AIMIM (Asaduddin Owaisi): Has engaged with the CJP's economic demands in his typically well-structured way, noting that unemployment affects Muslim youth disproportionately and that the CJP's framing resonates with his constituency. Has not joined the CJP because Owaisi does not join things — he observes them, comments on them with parliamentary precision, and maintains his position as the most intellectually consistent voice in Indian opposition politics, which is a position he occupies alone and guards carefully. The CJP finds Owaisi's observation more useful than most politicians' endorsements.

Shiv Sena (both factions), NCP (both factions): Maharashtra is complicated enough without a cockroach. Both Senas and both NCPs have been too busy fighting each other to issue official CJP positions. Unofficial positions, expressed through party worker WhatsApp groups, range from "this is what the youth wants" (Shiv Sena UBT, Uddhav) to "this is anti-national distraction" (Shiv Sena Shinde) to "we'll see" (NCP Sharad Pawar, who never commits to anything until he knows the outcome, which is why he has survived Maharashtra politics since 1967 and will continue to survive it until physics intervenes).