The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) has embraced the cockroach meme trend, launching a bold online campaign to counter the Cockroach Janta Party's digital dominance.

The spiny, long-legged, and often reviled cockroach has become an unlikely symbol of dissent, in a sharp rebuke to the ruling establishment in the world's largest democracy.

NEW DELHI — India's viral 'cockroach' political parody group says the authorities have blocked its website just days since it launched as a joke after...