Cockroach Janta Party protest: Is this Gen Z’s defining political moment in India?


Source: theweek.in theweek.in
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Born in response to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant’s remarks during a court hearing on May 15, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has quickly grown from an online joke into a nationwide campaign. Its demand for the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the question paper leak before the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test united students across regions and political affiliations. The CJP’s emotive campaign drew thousands of people from across the country to Delhi on July 20, the opening day of Parliament’s monsoon session. Largely free of ideological underpinnings, the movement also revealed its organisational shortcomings the same…

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