Dear MEL Topic Readers,
A weeks-old Gen-Z protest group managed to get India’s Modi to blink.
What’s next?
In India, Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been the
ruling party since 2014. Though it lost the majority in parliament in the last
election, it still holds a strong grip on India’s politics and governance. The
day after the Chief Justice of India referred to certain activists and
unemployed youth as “cockroaches” and “parasites of society” on May 15, the Cockroach
Janata Party (CJP) was formed by young people and began protesting over leaked
national medical entrance exams and systemic unemployment. Thousands of young
Indians took to the streets of New Delhi and demanded the resignation of the education
minister. Protesters filmed and shared videos and memes of their enthusiastic
protests and the government's fierce crackdowns. Since the CJP’s movement was
to correct the administrative failure, the administration had no choice but to
accept the blame, and the education minister resigned on July 25. The number of
candidates for the medical school examination was about two million, only a
fraction of the 360 million people between the ages of 15 and 29. However, according
to a recent report, nearly 40% of graduates aged 25 and under are unemployed. The
lesson was learned by India’s and other countries' administrations about the
swiftness and influence of social media used by young people.
Read the article and learn how India’s recent exam turmoil was
resolved.
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