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The Cockroach Uprising: How the CJP Protest Exposed India’s Broken Institutions

Journalist and author Snigdhendu Bhattacharya joins host Tushar Shetty to examine what the Cockroach Janata Party protests reveal about the erosion of India’s democratic institutions.

Independent journalist and author Snigdhendu Bhattacharya joins host Tushar Shetty to examine what the Cockroach Janata Party protests reveal about the erosion of India’s democratic institutions. They discuss the satirical origins of the movement and the exam-leak grievances that fueled it, Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike and the government’s effort to brand the protesters as foreign funded, and the forcible removal of Wangchuk and the police crackdown of July 20. 

They also cover the sidelining of Parliament and the collapse of the opposition as a channel for dissent, the Election Commission’s loss of........

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