India’s Modi promises fast-track courts for exam fraud fuelling protests
Summary
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the creation of fast-track courts to quickly punish people involved in exam paper leaks. This comes amid large youth protests in New Delhi over cheating in medical school entrance exams and demands for the Education Minister’s resignation.Key Facts
- Protests started after reports of cheating in national medical school entrance exams.
- Demonstrators have camped on a major road near India’s Parliament for several days.
- Modi said protecting the youth’s future is a top priority and promised swift punishment.
- The protests are led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a youth movement demanding reforms.
- The CJP wants Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to resign and want financial aid for families of students who died by suicide after exam cancellations.
- Police used tear gas and batons to break up protests, and some metro stations were closed near the protest site.
- The CJP claims outsiders caused violence to disrupt peaceful protests.
- Smaller protests also happened in other big Indian cities like Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Patna.
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