India witnessed a new cultural and political phenomenon in the form of the cockroach party movement. This cockroach movement initially started as a social media revolution where the unemployed youth referred to themselves as the cockroaches.
But this quickly gain attraction and hit the ground when the head of this social media page named Abhijeet Dipke started a ground protest.
The main agenda of this protest was to get the education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan to resign from his position over the recent NEET paper leakage. Interestingly, natural conservationist and socially popular personality Sonam Wangchuk launched a hunger strike to this effect.
At first, this cockroach wave was able to create a lot of noise at the ground level, and we turned up in big numbers. But things changed drastically over the last few days with public support going down and not much social media noise happening either.
Now we have arrived at a point where this protest does not have any kind of cultural or social impact on the society or the common public. This is a very problematic outcome for this social media wave that started so very strongly, but got diluted now.
At the earliest stages, people thought this would be a new political wave for the younger generation in the country, but this narrative quickly lost steam.
Nevertheless, it is sad to see such a genuine personality like Sonam Wangchuk being on a hunger strike but lacking any kind of public commotion.
“Day 17 of Sonam Sir’s Hunger-Strike.
He has started losing muscle mass and is in immense pain. Like everyone else, I begged him to end his fast.
He calmly replied, “Don’t ask me to end my fast. Ask the govt why they won’t even have a dialogue.” Abhijeet posted on this topic a few minutes earlier. But the reactions for this have been very poor as well.
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