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July 21, 2026

Youth-Led Protesters Rally Against Modi's Right-Wing Government
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In India, tens of thousands of youth-led protesters have rallied against
the right-wing government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling for
the resignation of India's education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan.
Protesters are blaming him for the leak of national exam questions that
were circulated on social media, forcing millions of students to retake
the exam. Some students ended up dying by suicide after studying for the
exam for years. Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the so-called Cockroach Janta
Party, blamed India's Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah and Prime
Minister Narendra Modi for ordering a bloody crackdown on protesters.

Abhijeet Dipke: "Today, what the Delhi police have done, the way they
beat students, the way they hit them in their heads, it was very
shameful. Due to this, the country's reputation is being damaged
worldwide. And we all know why Delhi police did all of this: because
they received orders from Narendra Modi and Amit Shah."



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