CJP vows protest until Pradhan steps down
The Cockroach Janta Party will continue its agitation at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar until Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns over alleged failures surrounding the NEET-UG examination, founder Abhijeet Dipke said on Friday. Dipke made the...
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Opposition Members In Parliament Firm On Sacking Of Education Minister
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Parliament of India has been at a halt for last five days without transacting its business ever since July 20, when the Monsoon Session had begun. Thus, the first week of the Monsoon Session of the Parliament has been washed out due to opposition protest...
Protest Movement Of CJP Has Spread In All Parts Of The World
By T N Ashok What began as an online satire has transformed into the most significant student-led movement India has witnessed in more than a decade. The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), born out of memes, mockery and frustration over repeated examination paper leaks, has evolved into a nationwide campaign...
CPI Calls For Massive Rally Against Narendra Modi Govt On September 1
By Krishna Jha Communist Party of India has issued countywide call to stage a massive demonstration at Ramleela grounds on September first this year against the indifferent attitude of the ruling NDA government towards people’s growing miseries. While hunger graph shows the contradiction that India is one of the...
Bengal’s Film Icon Uttam Kumar Is Remembered Even 46 Years After His Death
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: July is the cruellest month for film lovers in Bengal. Many away from the state mourn this day as their favourite matinee idol Uttam Kumar journeyed to the land of sleep on July 24, 1980. He had become a screen icon portraying some of the...
Rahul-Led Opposition Extends Solidarity With Youth Protesters
By Rahil Nora Chopra As youth protests over exam paper leaks continue all over the country, the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, along with fellow INDIA bloc MPs, staged a demonstration at Gandhi Smriti and paid homage to students who died by suicide over the recent...
Prime Minister Andy Burnham Is Still Sticking To Old Militarisation Plans
By Ben Chacko LONDON: One headline sums up the contradiction at the heart of Andy Burnham’s new premiership. It appeared in The Guardian and read: “Streeting says Burnham government will prioritise military over other spending.” The Streeting in question is of course Wes, the newly minted Defence Secretary and...
The US-Saudi Nuclear Deal Redrawing The Middle East’s Atomic Map
By Asad Mirza Washington and Riyadh have signed a civilian nuclear cooperation pact that could let Saudi Arabia enrich uranium on its own soil. Announced this week and now headed to Congress, the deal marks a historic shift in US nonproliferation policy, alarms Israel and threatens to reshape the...
Deadlock In Parliament For The 4th Day On Exam Irregularities, Crackdown On Students
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Delhi Police had to resort to firing tear gas on protesters near CJP protest sites at Jantar Mantar to push them back late on Wednesday evening, where tens of thousands of them had gathered and still swelling. On Thursday July 23 morning, CJP protesters at...
Jantar Mantar: A New Generation’s Fight For Education And Democracy
By Dr. Arun Mitra Forty-six years ago, I participated in the “Job or Jail” campaign organized by the All India Students’ Federation (AISF). Those memories returned with remarkable clarity on Sunday, July 19, when I spent nearly four hours with students at the AISF stall at Jantar Mantar, where...
Not Just Examinations, Youth Protesters Are Questing The Legitimacy Of The System
By R. Suryamurthy History rarely announces political turning points when they occur. They often masquerade as administrative failures. A bread shortage becomes the French Revolution. A tax on tea becomes the American Revolution. A fruit vendor’s self-immolation ignites the Arab Spring. India may one day discover that its political...
Fear Is Melting, Collective Courage Has Exploded At Jantar Mantar Rally
By Nilotpal Basu There are moments in history when time scampers. Many Indians who were in a dilemma over the lack of collective rage would now be relieved. With developments over the manner in which the executive, the legislature and eventually even the judiciary appeared to converge, it was...
July 21 Rally Confirmed Mamata Banerjee’s Dominance Over Trinamool Congress Base
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Competing for attendance of followers, three rallies held on July 21, the Martyr’s Day sprang surprises for the organisers. Notwithstanding desertion, internal squabbles coupled with snowballing of corruption charges, the Trinamool Congress rally led by former chief minister Mamata Banerjee near Birla Planetarium drew the...
The New Pope: A Meditation On Faith, Power And Terror In A Fractured World
By T N Ashok The New Pope, a sequel to the Young Pope, is streaming on Netflix, I sat down to watch and realised from its sharp, elevated and intellectual screen play, the serial was not about the Pope or the Catholic church, but more about the world we...
The Flower In The Rifle: On The Legality And The Morality Of Peaceful Protests
By Pratik Patnaik When THE PEOPLE gathered at Jantar Mantar this Monday, fasting and chanting and holding copies of the Indian Constitution above their heads to demand that a Union minister answer for a leaked examination that had upended a generation, the Government of India had a tidy explanation...
By Brutalising A Youth Protest, BJP May Have Handed Congress Its Anna Moment
By K Raveendran The spectacle in central Delhi this week carried a significance far beyond the barricades, detentions and blows captured on mobile-phone cameras. The first confrontation unfolded during the Cockroach Janta Party’s march from Jantar Mantar towards Parliament, while Tuesday brought another coercive police response when Rahul Gandhi,...
Opposition Rocked Parliament For The Third Day Over “Brutality On Students”
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After the Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi was removed by force from the sit-in protest site near the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official residence on July 21, the opposition has further hardened their stance on examination irregularities and “brutality unleashed on students”. Earlier, they...
Brutal Police Actions Against Protesters Have Given A National Dimension To CJP Stir
By T N Ashok Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protesters near Parliament, faced on Monday barricades, lathicharge, tear gas. Security forces fired tear gas and resorted to lathi charges after protesters breached barricades and marched towards Parliament. Chaos gripped central Delhi, triggering traffic disruptions, metro restrictions and a police crackdown...
