Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke has approached the Delhi High Court challenging the blocking of the CJP's ’s X account.
Dipke has challenged the government’s blocking order, which cited national security reasons to ban the handle.
The petition, filed through Advocate Nakul Gandhi of NG Law Chambers, is likely to be heard this week.
According to a report by The Indian Express, the Central government ordered the blocking of the X account of CJP in the wake of inputs from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) that raised “national security concerns”.
The report said that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) asked X to withhold the account under Section 69 (A) of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
The “Cockroach Janta Party” emerged earlier this month as a satirical online movement that gained traction across social media platforms, particularly among younger users.
The online movement has gained massive popularity, with hundreds of thousands of followers on X and over 22 million followers on Instagram.
The movement was born out of Supreme Court proceedings held on May 15 during which the Bench headed by CJI Surya Kant expressed concerns over unemployed young lawyers drifting away from practice toward social media and RTI activism. CJI Kant said that such "youngsters like cockroaches" were becoming parasites in society.
"There are youngsters like cockroaches who are not getting employment in the profession. Some are on social media, some become RTI activists," the CJI said.
The CJI later clarified that his observations were directed at individuals entering professions through forged qualifications and fake degrees, not unemployed young Indians generally.
The collective was started by Dipke, a resident of Boston, USA. It uses political satire to comment on issues such as unemployment, institutional accountability and media freedom.
For More News Updates Follow Us On www.tconews.in
