The posters at Jantar Mantar on June 20 told a story the mainstream media has been reluctant to acknowledge. Among the professionally printed placards held by NEET protesters, one face dominated: a bearded man captioned “Indian Usman Faizan Ali — From America.” The image was not spontaneous. It was the calling card of a US-based operative named Osman Faizan Ali, who runs the Instagram handle @bbm_india_ and a dormant YouTube channel called “Button Ballot Movement by Osman Faizan Ali.” For weeks before the protest, Ali had been flooding social media with inflammatory reels framing the agitation as a confrontation between “angry youth” and the Bharatiya state. His message was consistent: occupy, overwhelm, and bring the capital to a standstill. This was not grassroots dissent. It was choreographed provocation from 12,000 kilometres away.
Ali’s record reads like a manual for destabilisation. On June 19, 2024, he uploaded videos urging supporters to bring actual cockroaches to Jantar Mantar — a grotesque metaphor made literal — to paralyse Delhi. The same day, he pledged ₹1 lakh per week to sustain the sit-in, contingent on approval from protest leader Abhijit Dipke, effectively crowdfunding a prolonged illegal occupation. Twelve days earlier, on June 1, he had addressed the Delhi Police directly in a video that can only be described as a threat: he warned they would need “massive numbers” to stop the “tsunami” of bodies he intended to unleash. The rhetoric was not metaphorical. It was a tactical briefing for mob intimidation. In April 2026, after the Election Commission clarified that voter-list revisions were routine administrative housekeeping, Ali seized the narrative anyway, declaring the exercise an assault on citizens’ rights and calling for nationwide road blockades. The pattern is unmistakable: seize any administrative action, distort it into an existential threat, and mobilise street power to extract political concessions.
Before he rebranded as a CJP cheerleader, Ali was an open partisan for the AIMIM-Congress alliance in Hyderabad and Secunderabad. A May 13, 2024 audio recording captures him urging strategic voting to defeat the BJP — the same playbook he now deploys under a different banner. He has also advocated opposition unity through seat-sharing agreements to consolidate anti-BJP votes, effectively functioning as an unregistered foreign agent for a domestic political coalition. The continuity is deliberate. The “Cockroach Janata Party” — a label its own supporters have embraced with perverse pride — is not a new movement. It is the INDI Alliance and AAP 2.0 wearing a mask, staffed by the same cast of characters: Umar Khalid, Abhijit Dipke, and now a US-based provocateur who threatens police, funds occupations, and incites violence from the safety of American soil. The “cockroach” imagery is not accidental. It signals resilience, infiltration, and the intent to survive extermination — exactly how a destabilisation network thinks.
The NEET controversy is merely the latest convenient excuse. The examination irregularities are real, and students have legitimate grievances. But the protests at Jantar Mantar were not organised by students. They were stage-managed by a network that sees every institutional crisis as an opportunity to replicate the Shaheen Bagh model: indefinite occupation, foreign funding, media amplification, and the gradual erosion of state authority. Ali’s posters, his weekly stipend offer, his threats against police, and his history of electoral interference for opposition parties all point to a single conclusion. This is not spontaneous outrage. It is a deep-state project — using genuine student anxiety as human shield — to manufacture a crisis the government cannot resolve without looking authoritarian, and cannot ignore without looking weak. The “Cockroach Janata Party” is the vehicle. Osman Faizan Ali is the operator. And the destination has always been the same: chaos as a political strategy.
Source: 7 Incidents: Profiling of ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ radical supporter Osman Faizan Ali (2024-2026)
