PoliticsThe student behind ‘cockroach’ protests that forced an Indian minister to quit
Abhijeet Dipke became a public figure after responding to a chief justice’s comparison of jobless young people to “cockroaches” by helping launch the satirical Cockroach Janta Party. The movement drew mass support but also government-aligned trolling, while its website and X account were briefly blocked under India’s IT law.
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The student behind ‘cockroach’ protests that forced an Indian minister to quit
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