Hyderabad, May 25 -- The political class may laugh it off as another social media fad. The serious commentators may dismiss it as peak internet absurdity. But somewhere between memes, mockery and mass frustration, a strange digital uprising has crawled out of the woodwork.

Indian politics has seen many strange symbols over the decades - hands, lanterns, cycles, brooms, whistles and even pressure cookers. But now comes a political creature nobody had prepared for: the cockroach.

Welcome to the world of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the internet's newest "political movement" that is crawling rapidly across social media timelines, meme pages and frustrated youth circles. The most unwanted insect has become Gen Z's political mascot and i...