CJP State Activity Tracker: Where Cockroaches Have Already Shown Up Across India

The government tried. They withheld the X account under Section 69A. They had the Instagram reportedly hacked. They blocked the website. What they could not do — and what this tracker documents — is block the states. Cockroaches are already on the ground in Karnataka, Telangana, Haryana, West Bengal, Maharashtra, and a half-dozen more. (Business Today · Al Jazeera)

What follows is a sourced, state-by-state account of confirmed CJP activity. Every claim maps to a published news source or official coverage. This is not a projection or a plan — it is what has already happened.

Karnataka — Bengaluru Human Chain Blocked, Movement Holds

On May 24, 2026, Bengaluru Police formally denied permission for a human chain protest near Town Hall called under the CJP name, citing a Karnataka High Court order that restricts all rallies and sit-ins to Freedom Park only. The police warning noted that no individual or organisation had applied for permission — and that anyone who assembled would face arrest. (Outlook India)

The attempt to discredit the protest went further. BJP aligned voices tried to paint the Karnataka CJP wave as Pakistan-influenced — a claim that gained no traction but signalled how seriously the movement was being taken. (The Federal) The protest was postponed, not stopped. The movement holds.

Telangana — Hyderabad's PRIJIVA Group Goes Offline

In Hyderabad, a youth group called PRIJIVA organised clean-up drives under the CJP banner — taking the internet-born movement into physical civic action. The clean-up format let members participate without the legal exposure of a protest, and it reframed CJP's identity from a meme party into something with boots on the ground. Deccan Chronicle covered the PRIJIVA activity as part of its wider reporting on whether CJP represented genuine Gen Z political awakening or a sophisticated meme protest. (Deccan Chronicle)

Haryana — Rohtak Zila Parishad Member Joins

An elected Zila Parishad member from Rohtak, Haryana publicly announced joining CJP and expressed plans to organise an offline protest under the CJP banner. The Rohtak announcement matters because it represents a sitting elected representative — not just a digital sympathiser — staking public affiliation with a movement the national government was simultaneously trying to suppress. (Wikipedia — Cockroach Janta Party)

West Bengal — Mahua Moitra Signs Up

TMC MP Mahua Moitra publicly announced her CJP membership, according to NBC News's coverage of the movement's spread beyond internet subcultures into mainstream politics. (NBC News) West Bengal was always a natural fit — high political temperature, strong civic tradition, and an existing base of CJP-sympathetic voices. Moitra's public sign-up gave the Bengal chapter its most prominent face within days of the movement going national.

Maharashtra — The Biggest State Chapter

Maharashtra's state chapter is, by any measure, the best organised outside the national accounts. The Instagram handle cockroach.jantapartymh had grown to 1.7 lakh followers and published a Maharashtra-specific 5-point manifesto addressing youth employment, utilities, governance, and civic accountability — localising the national platform for a Maharashtra audience. The Print's coverage of state-wise CJP offshoots identified Maharashtra as the standout model for how state chapters could develop their own policy voices rather than just reposting national content. (The Print)

The 1 lakh members nationally in 3 days that Deccan Herald documented included a large Maharashtra contingent — the state's density of young, English-fluent, digitally-active urban voters made it the fastest individual state to organise. (Deccan Herald)

More States: Bihar, UP, MP, J&K, Himachal Pradesh

Wikipedia's coverage of the Cockroach Janta Party documents state-level activity confirmed in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, and Himachal Pradesh. Detail on specific events in these states is less granular than the front-runner states above, but the spread is confirmed. (Wikipedia — Cockroach Janta Party) These are the states where the next wave of ground-level activity is most likely to become visible — and where local sign-ups matter most right now.

What This Means — National Crackdown, State-Level Cockroaches

The government blocked the national X account. It blocked the national Instagram. It blocked the national website. It planted a protest to give itself a pretext for something more. None of it worked — because the national accounts were never the movement. The movement was already distributed across 50+ state and city-level accounts, across clean-up drives in Hyderabad, Zila Parishad halls in Rohtak, and manifesto documents drafted in Mumbai and Pune.

You cannot block fifty state accounts without looking like you are afraid of cockroaches. And that is the point. The biology is the politics: cockroaches do not have a head office. They are everywhere already. The crackdown confirmed the movement was real. The state tracker above shows where.

Add Your State to the Map

Every state chapter that becomes visible makes the next crackdown less effective and less defensible. If CJP is active in your state and it is not on this list, that is a gap worth closing.