The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Wednesday announced a nationwide membership drive as it moved to expand the public movement launched at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar and establish an organisational network across states.
The organisation invited citizens to become members by scanning its official QR code. It clarified that membership was free and warned people against fraudulent demands for money being made in CJP’s name.
The announcement came during the organisation’s two-day core committee strategy meeting in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, where its leadership deliberated on grassroots expansion, youth outreach and future campaigns focused on transparency and institutional accountability.
‘India Needs a Pressure Group’
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke said the organisation had no immediate plans to register itself as a political party or contest elections and would instead continue functioning as a public pressure group.
“For now, CJP will be a pressure group because what India needs right now is a pressure group,” Dipke said at a press conference on the sidelines of the meeting.
Dipke said the support received by CJP went beyond concerns surrounding education and competitive examinations and reflected wider public dissatisfaction with the functioning of democratic institutions.
He alleged that citizens were increasingly losing confidence in political institutions, the judiciary, the media and the Election Commission, arguing that sustained public pressure was necessary to strengthen accountability and institutional neutrality.
The organisation maintained that conventional politics had left a section of citizens disillusioned and said its immediate objective was to create a nationwide movement capable of raising public grievances and pressing authorities to act on them.
CJP Announces National Working Committee
The organisation also announced its National Working Committee as part of efforts to establish a formal organisational structure.
Dipke was named the founder, while Ashutosh Ranka and Saurabh Das were appointed conveners.
The committee also includes office-bearers entrusted with responsibilities covering organisation, media, legal affairs, policy, digital operations and finance.
Das said CJP’s strategy would be to identify issues affecting citizens, take those grievances before the appropriate authorities and sustain pressure until concrete action was taken.
He reiterated that contesting elections was not part of the organisation’s immediate roadmap.
CJP Eyes Expansion Across States
The Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar meeting also focused on strengthening CJP’s presence in different states and developing a nationwide youth outreach programme.
The proposed campaign is expected to mobilise citizens around issues such as transparency, institutional reform and accountability in public life.
The leadership also expressed support for students protesting against alleged irregularities in competitive examinations in Jharkhand.
Dipke said CJP representatives could travel to the state if circumstances required the organisation’s intervention or presence.
The nationwide membership drive represents the next phase of CJP’s organisational expansion after the Jantar Mantar agitation brought the group greater public visibility.
For now, however, its leadership is drawing a distinction between building a nationwide organisation and entering electoral politics.
CJP said the resolutions adopted during the two-day strategy meeting would guide its future programmes as it attempts to expand nationally while retaining its stated role as a public pressure group.
