{"id":1009202,"date":"2026-05-22T09:28:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009202"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:19:23","slug":"indias-cockroach-janta-party-group-goes-viral-spotlights-gen-z-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/22\/indias-cockroach-janta-party-group-goes-viral-spotlights-gen-z-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s &#8216;Cockroach Janta Party&#8217; group goes viral, spotlights Gen Z worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A five-day-old group that channels Gen Z concerns has gone viral in India, overtaking Instagram followers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, discussing issues like politics, inflation and unemployment &#8211; with a touch of humour. <\/p>\n<p>The Cockroach Janta Party has amassed nearly 15 million followers on Instagram in less than a week, compared with fewer than 9 million for Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s BJP, which says it is the world&#8217;s largest political party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A five-day-old group that channels Gen Z concerns has gone viral in India, overtaking Instagram followers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, discussing issues like politics, inflation and unemployment &#8211; with a touch of humour. The Cockroach Janta Party has amassed nearly 15 million followers on Instagram in less than a week, compared with fewer than 9 million for Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s BJP, which says it is the world&#8217;s largest political party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009222,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009202\/revisions\/1009222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}