Supporters of India's Gen Z 'cockroach' party stage first protest in New Delhi
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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.
Hundreds of mostly young Indians gathered in New Dehli on Saturday for the first street protest organised by the Cockroach Janata Party – a movement which began as an online joke but has quickly gained momentum among Indian youth disillusioned with their education, jobs and economic prospects. ...