Youth at the vanguard: On the Education Minister’s resignation
A government that does not bend to the people’s will risks being broken. The resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as Union Education Minister, after a sustained agitation by youth led by the satirically named Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), is more than just a ministerial casualty of the “paper leaks” scandal. It is a seminal moment in what political scientists describe as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s-dominant party system in Indian democracy.
- ▪A government that does not bend to the people’s will risks being broken.
- ▪The resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as Union Education Minister, after a sustained agitation by youth led by the satirically named Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), is more than just a ministerial casualty of the “paper leaks” scandal.
- ▪It is a seminal moment in what political scientists describe as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s-dominant party system in Indian democracy.
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A government that does not bend to the people’s will risks being broken. The resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as Union Education Minister, after a sustained agitation by youth led by the satirically named Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), is more than just a ministerial casualty of the “paper leaks” scandal. It is a seminal moment in what political scientists describe as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s-dominant party system in Indian democracy. Entrance examinations are the gate-keeping apparatus that determines which young Indian gets to enter the narrow but reassuring world of formal employment later on, in a country where most work remains in the grinding unorganised sector. Repeated leaks across several examinations have turned an apparatus for testing merit into one of widespread graft.
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