sanjay upadhyay

Agriculture and Forestry University, Faculty of Forestry, Hetauda

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

भारतीयहरूको बुझाइ चाहिँ यस्तो रहेछ।
https://t.co/ybYZ8COmAh

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

@AmritaLamsal @hello_sarkar @NepalPoliceHQ @watersagar सुन्दा सानो घटना जस्तो लागे पनि यसको सामाजिक प्रभाव (अझ खासगरी युवाहरु लाई पार्ने र उनीहरूका मार्फत विषाक्त समूह निर्माण मा) व्यापक हुन्छ। यस्ता दुष्चरित्र माथि चाहिँ ८ घण्टा भित्र कार्यवाही हुनसके देशले सहि दिशा पक्रेछ भन्न हुन्थ्यो।

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

@Prashant68 हेटौंडा मा त कति सकस छ, काठमाडौंको के कुरा गर्नु! काठमाडौं बाहेकका नेपाली शहरहरू अहिले पनि साइकलबाट नै एप्रोचेबल छन् जस्तो लाग्छ। र अहिले साइकल मैत्री बनाउन पनि त्यति गाह्रो नहोला। शहरी करण बढ्दै जाँदा भने गाह्रो होला।

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

@anamolmani साहित्य महोत्सव भनिए पनि धेरै जसो त गैरसाहित्यिक विषय वस्तु मै केन्द्रित भएको देखे सुनेको थिएँ (पर्यटन, वातावरण देखि अर्थतन्त्रसम्म)। सिनेमा का ठुलै मान्छे हुन्। सिनेमाको ज्ञान लिन बोलाए होलान्।🙂

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

नेपाल मा पनि घोङि प्रशस्त खाइए पनि गरीबको खाना मानेर हेपिएको छ। यसैगरी महोत्सव गरी पर्यटन संग जोड्न सके राम्रो।

[Reuters @Reuters]

Two hundred thousand people gathered in Spain’s Lleida to eat 14,000 kilograms of snails over a three day festival, in a celebration that began decades ago among local families and is now known as the world’s largest snail-eating festival

[Gatisheel Loktantrik Party @gatisheelnepal]

हाम्रा केही मौलिक अधिकार संविधानले दिएका होइनन् । ती संविधान भन्दा पनि माथी छन् ।

#मौलिक_अधिकार #FundamentalRights #Constitution

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

@gpokhrel काम फत्ते गरेपछि पो बोल्नु, अगाडि नै के प्यार् प्यार् गर्नु भनेर होला। काम गर्ने सरकार हो नि।

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

@mahatsujit भारतमा एकैपटक उपसचिव (?) मा नियुक्त गर्ने चलन छ क्यार (आइ ए एस) ! बरु त्यो पद्धति पो पछ्याउने हो कि?

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

@mahatsujit यसो भारतीय राजनीति हेर्दा बुझ्दा, थोरै पढ्दा, म भने यहाँको कांग्रेस उताको कांग्रेस जस्तो अनि रास्वपा भने उताको भाजपा जस्तो भएर जाने छाँट देख्छु। त्यसो भएमा यहाँ पनि यो वा त्यो स्वरूपको कक्रोच पार्टी जन्मेका कि?

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

For those who have time and patience to read long statements

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Eighteen Million Cockroaches Don't Lie

On the Cockroach Janta Party, people's anger, and Congress's massive mistake

Eighteen million followers in three-four days.

Let that sink in.

Not eighteen million built over decades of organisational work. Not eighteen million through RSS shakhas running for a hundred years. Not eighteen million through state machinery, government advertising, or captive institutional support.

Eighteen million in three-four days. Spontaneously. In response to a judge calling young Indians cockroaches.

And Congress's response? Suspicion. Distance. Warnings.

That tells you everything.

1. You Don't Own People's Anger

Here is the basic democratic principle Congress seems to have forgotten.

When millions of people express themselves freely and voluntarily, you don't get to decide if their feelings are legitimate. You don't get to check who started the movement before you decide whether the anger counts.

The anger belongs to the people. Not to the party.

You cannot abuse people's faith simply because it is not flowing in your direction. You cannot dismiss a people's movement simply because you are not the carrier.

Who died and made you the owner of all opposition?

It's the oldest rule of politics. Either you manufacture a mass movement, the way RSS did over a hundred years, patiently, methodically, or if you can't do that, you at least learn to ride one.

This is a question of survival for Congress. Not just electoral survival. Existential survival.

Because if you can't manufacture and you refuse to ride, what exactly are you? You become the status quo. You become the thing people are angry at.

Maybe if Congress stopped opposing this movement and started engaging with it, they would learn something. About who they are. About how people's movements actually happen. About the distance that has grown between them and the people they claim to represent.

The moment a political party starts gatekeeping which people's movements are acceptable, it has already lost.

2. The Cause Is Not Complicated

On May 15, 2026, the Chief Justice of India called unemployed young people cockroaches. Parasites of society. People with no place in any profession.

This is the man whose job is to protect the Constitution. The Constitution that guarantees every Indian their dignity and freedom of expression.

The next day, Abhijeet Dipke launched the Cockroach Janta Party as a joke.

And the joke connected. It hit a raw nerve. Because the joke wasn't really a joke, it was a mirror. And eighteen million people looked into it and recognised themselves.

Within 48 hours, tens of thousands had signed up. Within three days, eighteen million were following on Instagram. 96% of interactions verified from India.

When the government withheld their Twitter account, they opened a new one. Within hours it crossed a hundred thousand followers.

This is cause and effect. Nothing more complicated than that.

A CJI insulted an entire generation. That generation responded.

No PR budget does this. No AAP social media strategy does this. If AAP had this kind of digital firepower, they would be winning elections. They are barely making their daily bread right now.

The answer is simple. People recognised their own pain, and they responded to it.

Every generation finds its medium. Freedom fighters had pamphlets. The Anna generation had Jantar Mantar. Gen Z has Instagram. The medium changes. The rage against injustice does not.

3. The Anna Movement Argument Cuts Both Ways

Congress keeps invoking Anna Hazare's movement as a warning. Be careful, they say. These things get hijacked.

The argument is not wrong. But it is neither perfect nor effective.

Here is why.

The Anna movement worked. Congress of all parties should remember this.

In 2011, Congress was in power. Congress was the status quo. The Anna movement channelled the anger of millions against a government that had grown arrogant and corrupt. And that anger contributed directly to Congress's collapse in 2014.

The Anna movement didn't fail. It removed Congress.

Now it is 2026. BJP has been in power for twelve years. The unemployment is real. The institutional contempt is real. The shrinking freedoms are real. And a mass movement is rising, pointing directly at the current establishment.

For Congress to use Anna as a warning against CJP is almost surreal. Back then, Congress was the target. Today, they should be the ally.

Instead, they are playing gatekeeper.

The Anna parallel doesn't warn against CJP. It vindicates it.

4. The Government's Own Actions Have Answered the Critics

Here is the detail that mainstream coverage keeps missing.

The Indian government withheld CJP's Twitter account.

Think about what that means.

You don't suppress what you think is hollow. You don't mobilise state machinery against a PR stunt. You don't withhold accounts of movements you expect to fizzle out on their own.

You suppress what genuinely scares you.

The government's own action is an accidental endorsement. Every young Indian who saw "this account has been withheld in India" understood immediately. The establishment is afraid of cockroaches.

The CJI called them parasites. The government then proved, through its own action, that the contempt is not one man's opinion. It is policy.

They handed CJP its best story on a plate.

5. Yes, Stay Suspicious. But Do the Work First.

Let's be honest. Suspicion is not entirely wrong.
Dipke did work with AAP between 2020 and 2023. Movements do get infiltrated. New faces will join CJP, some may have murky backgrounds. The pressure release valve is a real risk. Millions feel heard, vent their anger, and then nothing actually changes. The establishment survives intact.

These are legitimate concerns. They deserve to be watched.

But Dipke is a Dalit. And it is a very important factor.

A Dalit young man, from Maharashtra, studying in Boston, builds a mass movement in three days, even if it's by accident or as a joke, that eighteen million Indians join. That is not a small thing. That is a story about aspiration, about dignity, about who gets to speak in this country and who gets told to sit down.

Congress, the party that has built its entire identity around Dalit inclusion and social justice, is opposing this movement without even picking up the phone.

Think about what that says. Not about CJP. About Congress.

And here is the question nobody is asking.

Has Congress even tried to contact Dipke?

Have they called him? Met him? Engaged with CJP's actual demands? Because if they had and Dipke turned out to be evasive or clearly running a proxy agenda, then suspicion would be earned. The criticism would have had standing.

But if they haven't even tried, then what they are expressing is not caution. It is ego.

What does Congress think? That Dipke and eighteen million young Indians will walk into their durbar, bend their backs, and do three adaabs before they are granted permission to be angry?

This is a feudal mindset. The durbar mentality. The expectation that people come to power, not that power goes to people. And it is precisely this mindset that has driven young India away from Congress in the first place.

If Congress genuinely believes in people's voices, the path is simple. Go to them. Talk to Dipke. Engage with the movement. If something feels wrong after that conversation, say so publicly.

But oppose first and engage never? That is not democratic vigilance. That is aristocratic hubris.

6. This Is Sour Grapes. And It Will Cost Them.
Let's say it plainly.

Congress had years to become the voice of Gen Z's frustration. The unemployment didn't start last week. The NEET scams didn't start last week. The institutional contempt for ordinary Indians didn't start last week.

Where was Congress as the medium for this anger?

To be fair, Congress is agitating right now. There are big mobilisations on the NEET issue in Jaipur and Karnataka. The party is not sitting idle.

But are young people joining those agitations? Are the eighteen million cockroaches showing up?

They are not. It's only NSUI.

That gap between Congress's agitations and young India's energy is exactly the gap CJP is filling. That is not Congress's enemy. That is Congress's opportunity.
Because here is the obvious truth. Congress and CJP want the same things. Accountability. Institutional respect for citizens. An end to the contempt that calls young people parasites. This is a common minimum programme waiting to be written.

The only thing standing in the way is Congress's ego.
Bend and ask for help. That is not weakness. In a democracy, that is how you build power.

Instead, Congress is raising suspicions about a movement it should be embracing. That is sour grapes. And sour grapes directed at your own potential voters is not just petty.

It is a historic mistake.

7. What Is Actually at Stake

The real damage here is not electoral. It is deeper.

When opposition parties start opposing people's movements, they send a message to ordinary citizens. Your participation is only welcome when it flows through us.

That message produces disillusionment. It teaches people that the system, all of it, not just the ruling party, does not want their voice.

That disillusionment is far more dangerous to Indian democracy than any single viral movement, however imperfect CJP may turn out to be.

The millions who joined CJP are not naive. Many joined with full irony intact. They know it is young and unproven. But they joined because for one moment, someone gave a name to what they felt.

The name was cockroach.

And they said, yes, we are cockroaches. We are here. And you cannot squash us.

You don't respond to that moment with suspicion.
You respond with respect.

The anger is real. The cause is clear. The effect is in front of us.

Eighteen million cockroaches don't lie.

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

@kedar_sharmaa @RaameshKoirala @Bishnusapkota यिनका यस अघिका लेख र यहाँ उल्लेखित लेख पढ्दा 'डिपार्चर' त यिनकै पो भएको देख्छु म त। कि त ती सबै पाखण्ड थिए, एक चतुर बुद्धिजीवी का पाखण्ड भनेर मान्नु पर्यो।

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

@kedar_sharmaa बढार्न पर्ने कसिंगर आफैं पो बढारीने भए? यस खुशी मा त म मधुमेह भए पनि लड्डु खान तयार।

[Ruby Khan @RubyNgunj]

सरकार अनसनको आज १६ औ दिन।हाम्रो आन्दोलन जारी छ!बांके जिल्लाका एस.पी अंगुर जि.सीको महिलाप्रतिको असंवेदनशिल्ता,दबाव प्रभाव,अनिश्पक्षता तथा अन्यायका बिरुद्ध!न्याय चाहियो!निर्मला कुर्मीको मुद्दा तत्काल सम्मानित अदालतमा पुर्याउने सहितका मांग पुरा गर ! @PM_nepal_ @ShahBalen @hamrorabi

[Ruby Khan @RubyNgunj]

निर्मला कुर्मीको घटनामा सरकारबाट ५ पांचौं पटकको सहमती हुंदा समेत अहिले सम्म पनि पुर्ण रुपमा सरकार संगको सहमति कार्यान्वयन गरिएको अवस्था छैन।भने कार्यान्वयन गराउने निकाय स्वयंम दबाव र प्रभावमा परि न्यायका लागि न्यायलय सम्म नै मुद्दा पुर्याउने मन्साय देखिएन https://t.co/Cwz9tKhZdO

[Gyanendra Khadka @gyanenkhadka]

आफ्नो कामबारे समाचारमार्फत् प्रश्न उठाउने पत्रकारलाई सी ग्रेडको संज्ञा दिने माननीय विगतमा यसरी झम्टिन्थे, पालो सबैको आउँछ ।

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

@birat_anupam @AmritaLamsal भारतको बिहार राज्यमा कुनै समय लालूको जगजगी हुँदा 'लालू चालिसा' लेखिएको थियो, यता पनि आएछ- (बाले.. चालिसा?)

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

@Aanbika @AmritaLamsal केही होइन वहाँको मन भित्र गडेर रहेको पुरुष अहम् र लोकतन्त्र प्रतिको वितृष्णा को प्रकटीकरण मात्र हो।

[Raj @bhandari_b50071]

@tikaramyatri फिल्टर नगरी बोल्ने उहाँको पुरानै बानी हो।पुराना दलका नेता विरुद्ध यस्तै बोल्दा हामी खुसी भयौं।
अहिले बालेनको निर्णय मन परेन र बिरोध गर्नुभो।
उतिबेला राम्रो लागेको अहिले नराम्रो लाग्दैछ किनकी हाम्रो बिचार अरुले बोलोस भन्ने आशा राख्छौं।
बिगतको बोली जस्तो थियो अहिलेसम्म निरन्तर छ।

[Mohna Ansari ‎ موھنا انصاري @MohnaAnsari]

Save the Life of Ruby Khan 🙏🏽

[sanjay upadhyay @sanjayhtd]

@Tamer_Alnoaizy @AnupSubedee Difficult to even watch.