Watching the Cockroach Janta Party – cautiously
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The Cockroach Janta Party, a satirical political campaign on social media, launched a protest in Delhi on Saturday to demand the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged mismanagement in conducting major competitive and board exams.
The protest is the first on-ground event of the youth-led campaign, which started as a reaction to remarks made by Chief Justice Surya Kant on May 15, allegedly comparing some unemployed youngsters to “cockroaches”. A day later, Kant claimed that he had been misquoted by sections of the media and that he had not criticised the young people in general.
But the clarification came too late. The campaign created by Abhijeet Dipke, a 30-year-old political communications strategist from Pune, became a rage among the young. Within a week, the campaign’s Instagram account garnered more followers than the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress combined.
The chief justice’s alleged remark were a catalyst for a section for young Indians belonging to “Gen Z” – born between the late 1990s and 2010 – to voice their grievances and channel their disillusionment against the Narendra Modi government.
The campaign came amid a confluence of problems.
Some of them were more recent. In early May, a paper leak in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for medical college...