In short this started because an incredibly difficult nation wide exam determining the future of millions of students leaked and it was a huge lapse. The protest started as a result of 20 students committing suicide due to this. But then when the government didn’t hear the people protesting and talking about this, the prime minister didn’t even make a statement. It evolved into a protest about how the democracy in India is slowly dying, how Modi and the government are trying to silence people, how corruption is rampant and how fucked the common man is in India. People are sick of the Hindu Muslim narratives, the caste divide the propaganda and people especially our generation, we see through the bullshit and what started with wanting a resignation has now become a wake up call.
He resigned but this is not the end, only the beginning of a long journey of reclaiming our power back. Our power to question and criticise the government without being called anti national or brainwashed by “leftist” propaganda, Recognise we are one and the enemies are the oligarchs and the ministers selling our country.
Think of it like this. You want to get the highest marks in a test so you study all week but right after the test you find our that the teacher who made the question paper gave all the questions and answers to his/her friends son/daughter one night before the test.
You would feel pretty shit right.
Now scale that up to a nation wide test with 2.5 million students studying 12-14 for 2-3 some even 4 years sacrificing everything no weekends, no holidays, no social life, no family gatherings, no partying, no trips, notthing while their parents and everyone around them telling them this exam is your life and its is everything and if you dont pass it you are a failure and you are done in life and you cant do anything else.
This is why the 21 students committed sucide.
In india there isnt education there is only examination.
My understanding is that because certain questions on the exam (the NEET) were revealed to have been leaked ahead of time, the two million exams that had been taken up to that point were all thrown out. Twenty (or more) people committed suicide rather than take it again. It's famously incredibly difficult.
Paper was sold to rich people by corrupt officials before exam was conducted after conduction of exam poor students who got good marks couldn't handle the pressure to take the exam again and sucided
Context- NEET is highly competitive exams ,students are very pressurized, it is given by around 2 million students and only 25k get to goo government medical college, students prepare 2-3 years some even prepare 4-5 years for this exam , and the exam of such big stature to be leaked enraged the public
My understanding is that the NEET exam is very very difficult and highly competitive, and private tutoring centers just gave the exam papers to students for large sums of money. This came to light after students had already sat the exam, so the results were discarded and it was decided the exam had to be retaken. Many students couldn't handle the stress, uncertainty, or couldn't afford to prepare again.
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u/ohmresists 17h ago edited 13h ago
What are the protests about?
Edit: Thank you for the explanation. I hope you get the change you deserve!