India's Cockroach Janta Party claims website has been blocked

The satirical group has gained millions of followers as "the voice of the lazy and unemployed".

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The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has gained more than 20 million online followers since being set up as a joke after India's chief justice reportedly compared unemployed young people to the insects.

He later clarified he was referring to people with "fake and bogus degrees", not India's youth more broadly.

Its website can no longer be accessed in the country and also appears to be down elsewhere. The group's founder Abhijeet Dipke said Indian officials had "taken down our iconic website" and asked why they were "so scared of cockroaches".

He wrote on X that the group, which is not an official political party, was already working on a new "home" and added: "Cockroaches never die."