Are CJP followers mostly from Pakistan?

No. Instagram audience data shared by CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke shows 94.7% of the page's viewers are from India. Pakistan does not appear in the top countries. The BJP claim of 49% Pakistani followers was fact-checked and debunked by Alt News on May 22, 2026. Source: https://www.altnews.in/cockroach-janata-partys-majority-followers-pakistani-bjym-secretary-tajinder-bagga-others-amplify-misleading-claim/

What did BJP leaders claim about CJP's followers?

BJYM secretary Tajinder Bagga posted a pie chart claiming 49% of CJP followers were from Pakistan, 14% from Bangladesh, 14% from the US, and only 9% from India. Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar amplified the same claim. Both figures were shown to be false.

What does Abhijeet Dipke's own Instagram data show?

Dipke shared a screen recording from the CJP Instagram account's native analytics. India accounted for 94.7% of viewers, the United States 1%, the United Kingdom 0.7%, and Canada and the UAE 0.6% each. Source: https://www.newsx.com/india/cockroach-janta-party-instagram-followers-from-pakistan-bangladesh-and-turkey-cjp-founder-abhijeet-dipke-shares-numbers-223747/

Why does this matter now?

The Pakistan narrative was used to delegitimize CJP and may have provided political cover for the government's decision to withhold CJP's X account under Section 69A of the IT Act on May 21, 2026, citing 'national security' and 'sovereignty' concerns. Critics say the claim was manufactured disinformation.

Are CJP Followers From Pakistan? The Numbers, The BJP Claim, and the Fact-Check

Within days of the Cockroach Janta Party going viral in mid-May 2026, BJP leaders floated a claim that most of the movement's followers were from Pakistan — not India. The claim spread fast. Within 24 hours it had been amplified by union ministers and BJP youth wing officials. It was also, according to Alt News and the platform's own analytics, false.

Here is everything that happened, with sources.

What BJP claimed

BJYM (BJP Yuva Morcha) secretary Tajinder Bagga posted a pie chart on X claiming the following breakdown of CJP's Instagram followers:

Pakistan: 49%
Bangladesh: 14%
United States: 14%
India: 9%

Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar repeated the same figures. The implicit argument was that CJP's viral growth was not organic Indian youth support but foreign interference — a Pakistan operation.

What the actual numbers show

CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke responded by sharing a screen recording from the CJP Instagram account's native audience analytics. The data showed:

India: 94.7% of viewers
United States: 1%
United Kingdom: 0.7%
Canada: 0.6%
UAE: 0.6%

Pakistan did not appear in the top countries at all.

Alt News independently reviewed the claim and rated it false. Their fact-check, published May 22, 2026, concluded that Bagga's pie chart was fabricated or based on a misrepresented metric and that the overwhelming majority of CJP's audience is Indian. (Alt News fact-check)

Why the claim matters: Section 69A and the crackdown

The Pakistan narrative was not just wrong — it served a political function. On May 21, 2026, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) directed X to withhold CJP's account in India under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act. The stated reason: inputs from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) alleging a threat to India's "national sovereignty."

Critics, including Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, pointed out that a satirical party built around a judge's remark about unemployed youth is a strange candidate for sovereignty threats. The Pakistan angle, debunked as it was, helped shape the environment in which that decision was made.

By May 23, 2026, the crackdown had expanded: the main CJP website (cockroachjantaparty.org) was blocked, the CJP Instagram account was hacked and access lost, and even the backup X account (@cockroachisback, which had gathered nearly 200,000 followers) was removed. (Business Today, May 23)

Dipke's response to the ISI claim

Dipke dismissed the Pakistan narrative directly, saying: "I know you are desperately trying to attach a foreign hand to this." He noted that CJP grew because millions of unemployed Indian youth saw themselves in the cockroach metaphor — not because of coordinated foreign amplification. (WION, May 22)

A separate Sunday Guardian fact-check also examined whether Dipke has any ISI or foreign-intelligence connections. The answer from public records and police complaints: no evidence of any such link. (Sunday Guardian fact-check)

What this tells us about the crackdown playbook

The sequence is worth noting:

CJP goes viral, overtaking BJP's own Instagram following within four days.
BJP leaders introduce the Pakistan narrative, creating the impression of foreign interference.
The government uses national security framing (IB input, sovereignty threat) to justify blocking CJP accounts under Section 69A.
Alt News debunks the Pakistan claim, but the accounts are already blocked.

Whether the disinformation campaign preceded and enabled the crackdown or was incidental to it, the facts are clear: 94.7% of CJP's viewers were Indian, and the Pakistan claim was false.

Where CJP is now

The .org domain is blocked in India. The community site — the one you are reading right now — is at cockroachjantaparty.buzz and remains live. Dipke, currently in Boston, said he fears arrest if he returns to India. He has received death threats. No FIR has been filed against him as of May 23, 2026. (Tribune India, May 23)

The cockroach, famously, survives everything.

Sources used in this article: Alt News, NewsX, Business Today, Sunday Guardian, Tribune India