Everything citizens ask about CJP, our state rankings, data methodology and how to participate in India's most honest governance accountability platform.
No. The Cockroach Janata Party is a satirical civic engagement platform â not a registered political party, not an election contestant and not affiliated with any political movement in India or abroad.
CJP exists to track state government performance using official public data, enable citizen participation in rating public services and make governance accountability information accessible and shareable. The satirical format is a deliberate choice: dry government reports do not engage citizens. Honest, blunt communication does.
Think of CJP as a combination of a civic watchdog, a data journalism platform and a public mood indicator â wrapped in the metaphor of a cockroach that refuses to disappear no matter how badly governments perform.
The cockroach is one of the most resilient creatures on Earth. Scientists estimate cockroaches have existed for over 300 million years. They survived the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. They adapt to almost any environment and keep going no matter what conditions they face.
Indian citizens share this quality. Through partition, famines, economic crises, political corruption, infrastructure collapse and 75 years of promises that were never kept, ordinary Indians keep going. They raise families, build businesses, educate children and demand better from their governments â often with very little support from the institutions that are supposed to serve them.
The cockroach mascot is a tribute to that citizen resilience. It is also, frankly, funnier than a lotus or a hand.
No. CJP has no affiliation with any political party â including BJP, Indian National Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, Trinamool Congress, DMK, AIADMK, Shiv Sena or any other registered party in India. We do not receive funding from political parties, political donors or politically affiliated foundations.
CJP is not affiliated with any NGO, foreign government, international agency or domestic government institution. Our rankings and data analysis are produced independently using publicly available official sources.
We rank states purely on performance data. If a state governed by Party X performs better than a state governed by Party Y, we report that accurately â and vice versa. Political party does not factor into rankings.
All data published on CJP comes from official Indian government and internationally recognised sources, including:
We do not invent data. We do not selectively use data to support a narrative. Where multiple sources provide conflicting numbers, we note the discrepancy and use the most recent official figure.
CJP state rankings combine two inputs: official data scores and citizen ratings submitted through our platform.
For each of our five categories â Education, Healthcare, Roads and Infrastructure, Water and Sanitation, and Jobs and Economy â we calculate a composite score based on multiple official data indicators weighted by their relative importance to citizen welfare outcomes.
Citizen ratings submitted through the Rate Your State feature are averaged per state and per category over time. These citizen ratings are presented separately from official data scores so users can see both what governments report and what citizens experience.
We update rankings as new official data becomes available, typically when major surveys or reports are published. All methodology changes are documented publicly.
Our rankings are only as accurate as the official data they are based on â and official government data in India has well-documented limitations. Survey coverage is sometimes incomplete, some states report more accurately than others, and there are time lags between data collection and publication.
We encourage citizens to treat CJP rankings as a starting point for inquiry, not as definitive final scores. If you believe a specific data point is incorrect, outdated or misleading, please contact us through our contact page with the specific claim and the alternative source. We review every genuine data correction request and update our information accordingly.
Rate Your State is CJP's citizen participation tool that lets any Indian resident rate their home state across five categories: Education, Roads and Infrastructure, Water and Sanitation, Healthcare, and Jobs and Economy.
Ratings are collected on a five-star scale and aggregated across all submissions for each state. The live leaderboard updates in real time as citizens submit ratings, creating a crowd-sourced picture of how states are actually perceived by the people who live in them.
These citizen ratings are displayed separately from official data rankings because they measure a different and equally important thing: not what governments report, but what citizens experience.
Yes. Citizens can contact CJP through our contact page to submit information about specific governance failures, suggest data corrections, report infrastructure problems that are not reflected in official data, or contribute local-level information that supplements national surveys.
We cannot guarantee individual responses to every submission, but we read all messages and incorporate useful citizen-sourced information into our analysis where it can be verified against other sources.
Yes. CJP does not collect personally identifiable information when you rate your state. We do not require registration, login or email addresses to submit a rating. Ratings are anonymous by design.
If you sign up for our newsletter or contact us via email, that information is stored securely and used only for the purpose for which it was submitted. We do not sell, share or rent personal data to any third party. See our full Privacy Policy for details.
Government claims about improving performance are frequently based on selected indicators, incomplete data or comparisons to a low baseline. CJP uses independent data sources specifically to provide a check on self-reported government performance claims.
If you believe your state is performing better than our ranking reflects, we encourage you to look at the specific indicators driving the score. Rankings improve when actual outcomes improve â not when government press releases say they are improving.
No. CJP is pro-citizen. Holding governments accountable to the people they serve is not anti-government â it is the fundamental purpose of democratic institutions. Citizens paying taxes and electing governments have every right to expect transparency about outcomes.
Demanding better from Indian governments is one of the most pro-India things a citizen can do. Countries that tolerate low standards in public services, corruption and governance failure pay an enormous long-term price in lost human potential, economic output and citizen wellbeing.
CJP does not accept monetary donations and does not charge citizens for access to any part of our platform. All rankings, data, citizen participation tools and content are free and publicly accessible.
The platform is maintained by volunteers who believe that governance accountability information should be a public good â not behind a paywall, not dependent on political funding and not subject to advertiser influence in editorial decisions.
Currently CJP is available primarily in English. We recognise this is a significant limitation in a country with 22 official scheduled languages and hundreds of regional dialects. Expanding to Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi and other major Indian languages is a priority for future development.
If you are interested in contributing to regional language translation of CJP content, please contact us through our contact page.