India’s youth strain to be heard as angry ‘cockroaches’ stage New Delhi march

Thousands of anguished and distressed youngsters gathered in protest in India’s capital on Saturday, rallying under the banner of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a newly formed viral youth movement, to demonstrate their anger against recurring exam paper leaks and other crises affecting the country’s youth.



Protesters, led by CJP representatives, are calling for the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, as well as accountability from the government to ensure that competitive entrance exams are conducted with fairness and transparency.



These protests follow the annulment of the highly competitive national undergraduate medical school entrance exam – known as the National Eligibility Entrance Test (Undergraduate) or NEET-UG – on May 12, after it emerged that the question paper had been leaked.



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