CJP Instagram account restored after brief Independence Day suspension

The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) said its official Instagram account was briefly suspended on the morning of 15 August 2026 — India’s Independence Day — and restored later the same morning, according to a report by The Indian Express.

CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke described the episode as an attempt to silence the group. Per Indian Express, he posted at about 6.16am that the handle had been taken down, and at about 6.45am that the account had been successfully recovered. The sequence played out less than two hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Red Fort address, the outlet noted.

What we can verify

• The Indian Express reported on 15 August 2026 that CJP’s Instagram account was briefly suspended Saturday morning and restored shortly afterwards (Indian Express).
• Per the same report, Dipke posted around 6.16am that the official handle had been taken down, and around 6.45am that CJP had recovered the account.
• Indian Express quoted Dipke (and a related CJP post) criticising those he said had tried to “muzzle” CJP’s voice on Independence Day, and saying the movement would not be intimidated by what he called “cowardly acts.”
• The report also notes that CJP’s Instagram account had faced a similar suspension during the Jantar Mantar protests, and that on 22 July Dipke had alleged an earlier takedown.

Unverified / not independently confirmed here

• Who ordered or caused the suspension, and whether Meta / Instagram or any government agency acted — not established in the cited report beyond CJP’s allegations.
• Exact technical reason for the takedown or restoration (policy strike, mass-report campaign, outage, etc.) — [unverified].
• Claims that specific political opponents engineered the suspension — presented by CJP as allegation only; not independently verified here.

Coverage of the same episode also appeared in other Indian outlets’ headlines on 15 August 2026; this digest relies on the full Indian Express report for factual detail.