India’s too big for a movement of the young to upend its system. And youth anger doesn’t necessarily produce better governance. That said, politicians must respond to what justifiably angry young Indians are saying
Politicians tend to get spooked when threats, real or imagined, emerge from an unexpected source. A social media phenomenon called the Cockroach Janta Party got the Modi govt worried enough to block its website, and related social media handles on Instagram and X. But its founder, one Abhijeet Dipke, seems unbowed. Perhaps because the NEET paper leak and the uproar over Class 12 CBSE results, appear to have triggered wide interest in CJP.