Why India’s Opposition parties should be worried about the cockroach movement
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The first weekend of June witnessed a cockroach infestation like never before in history. Hundreds of people braved the sweltering heat to gather at a protest site in New Delhi donning cockroach masks on June 7, in the first physical demonstration of a nascent Gen Z movement called the “Cockroach Janata Party” that has already gained millions of followers online. The city’s press corps turned up in large numbers to cover the great crawling out party.
It was the culmination of what emerged as an online satire in reaction to a throwaway comment by the chief justice equating jobless youths to cockroaches. It blew up in no time, accumulating 19 million Instagram followers in less than a week, more than what the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party can boast of, and enough to raise “national security” fears for the government to have its site blocked on social media platforms.
The creator of this unique “voice of the lazy and unemployed”, a student at Boston University, made a dramatic return to Delhi on the day of the protest to lead the “revolution”. His immediate demand is the resignation of India’s education minister, who has presided over a series of public examination fiascos such as paper leaks and misgrading that have aggravated...