CJP Founder Faces MeitY Panel Over X Account Block

Synopsis

On Wednesday afternoon, the Review Committee of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology met with Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijeet Dipke to discuss the suspension of the party's X account, @CJP_2029, in India. The account was closed on May 21st under section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. The hearing comes just ahead of a series of digital and legal clashes over the hottest political movement in India.

These are the moments that follow the Hearing After a Month of Digital Confrontations

In a post on X on Wednesday, Dipke said that he would personally be appearing before the Review Committee of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology today at 3 PM today to seek extension of the account, @CJP_2029.

The hearing was called following a June 24 call-up by the Department of Information and Technology (Maity) to appear before an inter-ministerial committee on his appeal against the blocking of CJP's original X handle.

The account was withheld in India on May 21st pursuant to Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. There are no official government reasons for the blocking.

What is the CJP and How was the Account Blocked?

Cockroach Janta Party is an Indian Satirical political party founded by Abhijeet Dipke, a former political communications strategist for Aam Aadmi Party on 16 May 2026. It was set up in response to the remarks made by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on May 15, 2026, who called some activists and jobless youngsters as cockroaches and parasites of society.

The account obtained over two lakh subscribers in just four days before it was removed by X in India "in response to a legal demand. According to a government official, quoted by The Indian Express on condition of anonymity, "MeitY had received an input from the Intelligence Bureau, citing it posed a threat to the sovereignty of India.

The official said the IB "claimed the posting of inflammatory content through its account could have had a negative impact on the country's national security and that was why the decision was made.

The Legal Challenge and the Delhi High Court

On May 25, Dipke petitioned the Delhi High Court against the blocking order issued under Section 69A. The case has played into a wider discussion about how the government uses account-level takedowns, which it generally doesn't release publicly, with reference to confidentiality clauses in the IT Blocking Rules.

A source at the CJP told The Hindu that the summons by MeitY was a "fresh escalation" as police action took place at the protest site, disrupting access to food, water and washrooms, and Dipke had alleged.

The Protest Context: Jantar Mantar Day 5

Dipke was heard at the MeitY as he has been holding a CJP sit-in at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi for five days demanding resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for alleged irregularities in exams and NEET paper-leak controversy.

The now-deleted X account had posted a video where 94.7 per cent of the users were from India. An independent analysis of The Quint, using Modash, also confirmed that most of the followers were Indian, while a small percentage were identified as bots.

Wednesday's Review Committee hearing is the start of a formal state-level adjudication of the question with far-reaching consequences — on the limits of satire, national security and freedom of speech in India's fast-changing information ecosystem.