India’s ‘Cockroach’ leaders hold talks with gov’t as protests continue
Summary
Leaders of India’s youth group, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), have started talks with government ministers about exam paper leaks but will keep protesting. The group wants the education minister to resign and demands compensation for families of students who died by suicide related to the exam scandal.Key Facts
- The CJP leaders met two senior Indian government ministers in New Delhi to discuss exam paper leaks.
- Protesters want Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to resign over the scandal.
- The CJP demands no criminal cases against protesters and compensation of about $105,000 for families of students who died by suicide.
- Protests involve tens of thousands of young people across major Indian cities.
- Opposition parties have supported the protest and disrupted the parliament session.
- The government proposed new laws to punish those responsible for exam leaks.
- Protesters reject the law proposal, saying the exam system itself must be fixed.
- The protests are described as the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi since 2014.
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