India’s ‘Cockroach’ Leaders Released as New Delhi Braces for More Protests
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Indian authorities released three leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party, a youth movement, a day after detaining them as they prepared to lead protests against sweeping voter roll revisions. The three leaders were freed on the condition they commit to no breach of peace for one year.
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India’s ‘Cockroach’ Leaders Released as New Delhi Braces for More Protests
The leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party, an Indian youth movement, were detained by the police before they could lead protests over voting rights.
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*Abhijeet Dipke, center, the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, in Maharashtra, India, last month.Credit...Anindito Mukherjee for The New York Times*
By Somini Sengupta and Suhasini Raj
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Oct. 11, 2026Updated 6:59 a.m. ET
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The three leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party, a popular youth movement in India, were released from detention on Sunday, a day after police officers took them into custody as they prepared to lead a protest against sweeping voter roll revisions.
Ratna Singh, who acts as the group’s legal director, said on social media that the three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, who created the Cockroach movement, along with Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — had been released on the condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year.”
“The CJP will neither back down nor be intimidated,” Mr. Dipke said on social media after his release.
The three men waved to journalists assembled outside the police station as they were swiftly loaded into a black vehicle and driven away. Mr. Dipke was seen wearing the same T-shirt he had on Saturday — bearing an image of Mohandas K. Gandhi, India’s leader of nonviolent protest.
“Cockroaches never die,” the group’s account on the social media platform X declared, minutes after their release. It included a cockroach emoji.
Mr. Dipke later said on social media that he was heading back to his home village because of a family death.
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The leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party, an Indian youth movement, were detained by the police before they could lead protests over voting rights.
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*Abhijeet Dipke, center, the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, in Maharashtra, India, last month.Credit...Anindito Mukherjee for The New York Times*
By Somini Sengupta and Suhasini Raj
Reporting from New Delhi
Oct. 11, 2026Updated 6:59 a.m. ET
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The three leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party, a popular youth movement in India, were released from detention on Sunday, a day after police officers took them into custody as they prepared to lead a protest against sweeping voter roll revisions.
Ratna Singh, who acts as the group’s legal director, said on social media that the three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, who created the Cockroach movement, along with Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — had been released on the condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year.”
“The CJP will neither back down nor be intimidated,” Mr. Dipke said on social media after his release.
The three men waved to journalists assembled outside the police station as they were swiftly loaded into a black vehicle and driven away. Mr. Dipke was seen wearing the same T-shirt he had on Saturday — bearing an image of Mohandas K. Gandhi, India’s leader of nonviolent protest.
“Cockroaches never die,” the group’s account on the social media platform X declared, minutes after their release. It included a cockroach emoji.
Mr. Dipke later said on social media that he was heading back to his home village because of a family death.
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