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India Cockroach Movement Parliament Protest
India's Cockroach Janta Party, a youth-led movement addressing unemployment and examination fraud, organized a march toward Parliament in New Delhi demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation. Police blocked the demonstration using tear gas and batons despite thousands of supporters gathering at the protest site.
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Cockroach Janta PartyNew DelhiDharmendra PradhanIndian PoliceParliament
2026-08-04
2026-08-01
2026-07-31
2026-07-28
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2026-07-27
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- Youth-led Indian protestors celebrate minister’s resignation
2026-07-26
2026-07-25
- How India’s ‘Cockroach’ protesters shook the Modi government
- India's 'cockroach' protest called off after education minister quits
- India's 'cockroach' party says ending protest after minister resigns
- India’s 'Cockroach' movement ends protests after education minister resigns
- In pictures: Indian youth supporting Cockroach Janta Party celebrate education minister's resignation
- India's 'cockroach' movement ousts minister, but can Modi calm youth?
- India's 'cockroach' movement ousts minister, but can Modi calm youth?
- Protesters celebrate resignation of India's education minister
- Indian celebrities fiercely criticised for silence on Cockroach protests
- India's education minister resigns in major victory for youth-led 'Cockroach' movement
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- ‘Cockroaches won’: India’s education minister resigns amid massive youth protests
- India's education minister resigns amid countrywide 'cockroach' protests
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- India’s education minister resigns after youth protests led by the country’s ‘Cockroach’ movement
- India’s ‘Cockroach’ protests take on Modi with unlikely weapons: sharp, irreverent humor and memes
- India’s ‘Cockroach’ protests take on Modi with unlikely weapons: sharp, irreverent humor and memes
- India's 'Cockroach' protests take on Modi with unlikely weapons: sharp, irreverent humor and memes
- India's 'Cockroach' protests take on Modi with unlikely weapons: sharp, irreverent humor and memes
2026-07-24
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- India’s ‘Cockroach’ leaders hold talks with gov’t as protests continue
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- A protest movement is challenging India’s establishment. What to know about the ‘Cockroaches’
- The ‘cockroaches’ marching on India’s government – podcast
2026-07-23
- The anger fueling India’s ‘cockroaches’
- Can India's 'Cockroach' protest movement go nationwide?
- How the student 'Cockroach' movement grew its influence across India
- India's 'Cockroach' movement spreads to Mumbai after violence in New Delhi
- India protest movement holds capital sit-in as police crack down on demonstrators