A new movement has been launched in India recently with a title that includes the term “cockroach”.
As is well known, people are repulsed by cockroaches, as cockroaches are primarily associated with disease and public health issues. The activities of the new movement launched in India seem to be remaining true to its name, “cockroach”.
After the violence and forced regime change in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh by the vested interests who organised the movements in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh, obviously with strategic and financial support from overseas sources, similar vested interests now seem to be trying their hand in India.
While public agitation was launched by misinforming and misleading students and young people, who can be emotionally swayed and who often cannot take a holistic view of the entire situation, the movement attained a measure of success in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh. In the process, the economies of the above countries were adversely impacted, causing violence, social and political disharmony, and counterproductive suspicions among the common people.
All of a sudden, someone descended from the USA and started the cockroach movement in India, declaring that injustice was being done to students due to the question paper leakage in the NEET examination. The cockroach people, who are not known to have had any association with the field of education or issues relating to students in the past, received support from sections of opposition parties in India, similar to what happened in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh. Then, someone campaigning on local issues in the Ladakh region of India descended on New Delhi and started observing a so-called fast unto death to support the “cause of students”.
Then, a few thousand people were organised to join the agitation, and violence was unleashed.
Even while the Government of India has expressed its concern about the mistakes during the NEET examination, which has now been reconducted without any issues, and the Prime Minister himself has promised that the government would punish the culprits responsible for the NEET examination problem, the cockroach people have demanded the resignation of the Education Minister as a precondition for suspending their agitation and then raised more issues. The main opposition party has extended the demand to include the resignation of the Prime Minister. All these events follow the same pattern as they did in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh.
However, India is a different ball game. Under the prime ministership of Mr Modi, over the last twelve years or so, India has progressed in multiple directions, including economic and industrial growth and societal reforms, and is now emerging as one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. Mr Modi remains the most popular and respected leader in India.
It is very important that the mass upheaval and violent agitation sought to be created by vested interests with ulterior motives should be nipped in the bud, and the cockroach people should be shown their place.
The discerning citizens of India should not remain mere observers of such a negative and disturbing trend, and they should condemn the cockroach people and their supporters with the force they deserve. This is a necessary precondition to ensure that India continues to move forward in a positive direction and achieves its target of becoming Viksit Bharat by 2047.
