Founder Abhijeet Dipke, who apologised to a trolled queer teenager, has not found the time to address his own spokesperson. The cockroaches, it turns out, have a hierarchy.
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Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) spokesperson Vijeta Dahiya is facing calls for accountability after an Instagram post in which he dismissed non-binary and gender-fluid identities as a “circus” run by wealthy people with nothing better to do. The post ended with a paragraph widely condemned as transphobic. CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke has not held Dahiya accountable, though he separately reached out to a protest attendee who was targeted online for their gender expression.
In the Instagram post, Dahiya opened by laying out a biological definition of sex, citing genitalia, chromosomes, and gametes. He acknowledged intersex people and stated, correctly, that being intersex is not a disease. He also acknowledged gender dysphoria and the existence of trans people, noting that trans women and trans men want legal recognition of their gender so they can access reservations, welfare schemes, domestic violence laws, marriage rights, and sports categories.
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Then Dahiya wrote that “some rich folks bored with their purposeless existence want to identify themselves as a man on Monday, woman on Tuesday, gender-fluid and 86 other categories.” He called these people the “global spokespersons” of the trans rights movement and said they have “made the entire thing a circus.” He ended by directing followers to a lecture by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.
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Critics pointed out that the post conflates two separate things: the lived experience of trans people, which Dahiya claims to support, and non-binary or gender-fluid identities, which he dismisses as a rich person’s indulgence. For many in the LGBTQ+ community, gender-fluid and non-binary identities are not separate from the broader spectrum of trans experience. The framing of those identities as a product of boredom and wealth is what triggered the backlash.
Artist Krey Kannojia (@kreykannojia) writes on Instagram, “Transphobia is not a side issue. It reinforces the same logic of hierarchy, exclusion, and social control that anti-caste movements have historically fought against. When organisations and public figures amplify such narratives, they contribute to the marginalisation of an already vulnerable community.”
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Be it BJP, INC or CJP. All parties are united by transphobia and trans erasure! This is the spokesperson of Cockroach Janta Party @VijetaDahiya saying genderfluid persons are those who are rich, bored and without any purpose hence they experience fluid gender. @Cockroachisback ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/yIjafIDpeR
— Yes, We Exist 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (@YesWeExistIndia) June 6, 2026
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@Queerkiconversations writes, “being a spokesperson for a movement does not give you a pass for bigotry or an escape from accountability.”
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Vijeta Dahiya is a political analyst, author, and filmmaker. He completed his education at Delhi Technological University and has worked in political research and strategic analysis, contributing content and research support to several YouTube creators.
He was appointed as one of CJP’s three official spokespersons alongside Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka ahead of the party’s June 6 protest at Jantar Mantar.
CJP is satirical political movement founded on May 16, 2026 by Abhijeet Dipke, political communications strategist who formerly worked with Aam Aadmi Party. It emerged in response to remarks made by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, who compared unemployed youth to “cockroaches” and “parasites of society” during Supreme Court hearing on May 15, 2026.
The movement grew rapidly on social media. Dipke created the CJP website and social media accounts a day after the CJI’s remarks. Within days, CJP’s Instagram page had amassed more than millions of followers, far surpassing the BJP’s 8.8 million followers on the platform.
The June 6 protest at Jantar Mantar was its first major offline demonstration. Hundreds of people, mostly young participants, attended, many wearing cockroach masks and carrying flowers. CJP said its single-point agenda was demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
The trans debate inside CJP circles gained additional visibility through a separate but related incident. Ujjwal Singh, a 19-year-old who gained attention at the CJP protest, reacted to online trolling that focused on their gender expression, clothes, and sexuality rather than on the issues they came to raise, including paper leaks and student deaths.
The targeting of Singh is not incidental. It reflects a pattern visible at the protest itself. The protest drew significant crowds but stood out for its overwhelmingly male character. As one woman protester noted: “The moment we as women post anything in any online space, men from IT cells and trolls start commenting and messaging threats.”
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke responded to the trolling of Singh on Instagram Stories, writing: “Hi, sorry for being late, but thank you so much for attending our protest. We are very sorry for the social media attack on you, but that’s just what happens to people who have a spine and question the system. Thanks for speaking up.”
The statement expressed sympathy. But Dipke did not address Dahiya’s post directly, and he did not publicly ask his spokesperson to clarify or retract the remarks.
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