Mamata, Abhishek Banerjee back Cockroach Janta Party: TMC leader Derek O'Brien

Mamata, Abhishek Banerjee back Cockroach Janta Party: TMC leader Derek O'Brien

TMC leaders Mamata and Abhishek Banerjee publicly backed the Cockroach Janta Party, a satirical digital movement launched May 16 that amassed 227,000 followers before its X handle was withheld by Indian authorities on May 21. The episode illustrates how rapidly coordinated digital mobilization can scale — and how quickly governments respond with platform-level suppression, a pattern relevant to any organization operating social channels in regulated markets.