Cockroach Janta Party Holds Protest At Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, Seeks Action Over NEET, CBSE Issues
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Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the viral Cockroach Janta Party—a satirical online youth movement named as a parody of Prime Minister Modi's BJP—returned to India from the United States to lead the movement's first street protest in New Delhi on June 6. The demonstration at Jantar Mantar channeled weeks of social media activism into direct action, with protesters demanding the education minister's resignation over exam irregularities while highlighting broader grievances about inflation and unemployment. The protest marked the transformation of a massive online youth campaign into offline political mobilization.
Cockroach Janta Party Protest: Education reformer and activist Sonam Wangchuk had earlier announced that he would join the protest if no action was taken by June 5. ...