Green Left Show #89: How India’s ‘Cockroaches’ struck a blow against Modi
Isaac Nellist
Thu, 06/08/2026 - 20:11
Isaac Nellist
Manish Kumar
August 6, 2026
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Issue 1459
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World
The youth-led Cockroach Janata Party movement forced education minister Dhamendra Pradhan to resign over exam and admission paper leaks and corruption in the education system.
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On this episode of the
Green Left Show
,
Isaac Nellist
speaks to
Manish Kumar
, Uttar Pradesh state president of the All India Students’ Association (AISA) and PhD student at Allahabad University, about this powerful expression of dissent against the Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party government.
Kumar was one of three students and AISA members who participated in a 23-day hunger strike at the Jantar Mantar protest site in Delhi, alongside well-known activist Sonam Wangchuk.
They also discussed the police brutality against youth protesters in Delhi on July 20 and the next steps for the youth movement.
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