Thirty-six days after a joke about “cockroaches” became a youth movement, India’s education minister was gone. The Cockroach Janta Party, or CJP, declared victory — “Cockroaches won. The joke carried a serious message: The protesters who turned out in response, under the banner of the Cockroach Janta Party, saw themselves as people the political system had stopped listening to. But the Cockroach Janta Party — a parody of the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, the Hindu right-wing party that has governed India since 2014 — had few of the trappings of a serious political party. The party posted four words: “Cockroaches won.