‘They have sold themselves’: At ‘cockroach’ gathering in Delhi, protestors rage against the system
· Scroll
“Inquilab zindabad! Vande mataram! Jai Bhim!” Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke shouted a few minutes past noon on Saturday at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Long live the revolution! I bow to you, my motherland! Victory to Bhimrao Ambedkar!
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Dipke started the Cockroach Janta Party in May as online satire in response to the Chief Justice of India allegedly comparing India’s unemployed youth to cockroaches. The campaign soon trained its guns on the Modi government and Dipke called for its first street protest in Delhi on June 6.
The three slogans he had chosen were ordinarily associated with three distinct, and often warring, political groups in India: communists, Hindu nationalists and Ambedkarites. But the Cockroach Janta Party leader blended them together seamlessly in his short address to the crowd that had gathered to listen to him.
Questions of ideology did not seem to matter much for the hundreds of people who showed up in the sweltering Delhi heat either. Nearly every protestor that Scroll spoke to echoed Dipke’s demand that Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan must be held responsible for the spate of paper leaks under his watch.
“I have come here to seek the education minister’s resignation,” said Zeenat, a 16-year-old from Bihar’s Gaya district, who will...