The frequent buzzword across social media and newspapers is the Jantar Mantar protest. Large numbers of young people are protesting for their future. The present incident was fueled by Chief Justice Surya Kant’s controversial remark calling protesting youth 'a cockroach'. Whether such remarks by the Chief Justice were appropriate or not is the subject of fierce debate. But it must be noted that protests and hunger strikes have a long legacy in India’s history. It traces back to our Father of the Nation, as this was his prescribed strategy for meeting just needs. Yet, here we are, still caught up in the affairs of solving protests. The agenda of the protest is to hold the education ministry accountable and demand the resignation of the Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan. Here is where the protest loses me—not because I support the BJP. The cause of the protest is the NEET-UG paper leak and the National Testing Agency (NTA), which is an autonomous body that takes full res...
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