ON SATURDAY, INDIA’S education minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned following a series of national protests known as the ‘cockroach protests’. Who are the cockroach party and why are they protesting? The Cockroach Janta party (CJP) is a Gen Z movement that was founded in May this year by Abhijeet Dipke, a 30-year-old Indian man studying in the United States. One of the main demands of the cockroach movement was the resignation of the education minister. A new education minister, Pralhad Joshi, was appointed on Monday.