India Protests News It began with a fear familiar to millions of young Indians: if the examinations that determine their future. Weeks later, on Monday, tens of thousands of young men and women tried to march on India’s parliament. Police responded with tear gas and baton charges.
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a youth-led movement born out of anger over repeated examination paper leaks, has quickly become India’s biggest student mobilisation in years.
The obvious question is whether this is simply another student protest – or the beginning of something larger.
Unlike many of the biggest protests against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government over the past decade – whether over citizenship, farm laws or other contentious policies – this movement is not fundamentally about ideology. Nor is it rooted in the interests of a single community or social group.
Thousands of supporters of India’s youth-led “cockroach” movement have been protesting since June, demanding the education minister resign over exam paper leaks, in the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his third term.