The youth-led Cockroach Janata Party movement forced education minister Dhamendra Pradhan to resign over exam and admission paper leaks and corruption in the education system.
On this episode of the Green Left Show, Isaac Nellist speaks to Manish Kumar, Uttar Pradesh State President of the All India Students’ Association (AISA) and PhD student at Allahabad University, about this powerful expression of dissent against the Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
Kumar was one of three students and AISA members who participated in a 23-day hunger strike at the Jantar Mantar protest site in Delhi, alongside well-known activist Sonam Wangchuk.
They also discussed the police brutality against youth protesters in Delhi on July 20 and the next steps for the youth movement.