News Summary

• Abhijeet Dipke is supremely articulate, instantly trustworthy and likeable in a way seasoned politicians are not.
• He may well know that his demands, like the resignation of India’s education minister, cannot be met.
• India has space for a mass movement that is purely reformist and does not require electoral validation.
• But the Cockroach Janata Party is not a social movement.
• It displays a clear loathing for the government.
• Such a movement has no choice but to be political; a political movement needs to go political.