u/Infamous-Jon3

So in India, currently there is this online movement going on where a group or page on Instagram called Cockroach Janata Party started gaining traction due to annoyance with the media outlets and also because it became a youth alternative people were trying to seek. This is not something new, it has been there for a while, but it blew up two or three days ago and immediately, within three days, they gained 8.4 million followers, which is absurd if you think about it. But it’s India, their population is 1.5 billion, so it makes sense. And I’m pretty sure they came out of this whole media spark related to the Norwegian journalist press conference thing, but whatever, besides the point.

One of the leaders of this whole movement, his name is Abhishek, made this point and it just annoys me. What do you mean by saying, “Don’t make such comparisons, the youth of this country are far more aware, politically conscious, and constitutionally respectful”? What are you even trying to imply here? Did you think we are some anarchist monkeys going around burning everything in the nation?

And have you even thought about the scale of these countries? Nepal is massively smaller than India. Bangladesh is also far smaller than India. Different situation, different history, different political narratives, different social tensions. Why are you trying to flatten everything into one comparison while also sounding subtly superior at the same time?

Because the way he said it genuinely comes off like this indirect superiority complex, where you are positioning Indian Gen Z as somehow more politically mature and informed than the youth movements of neighboring countries. If that was truly the case, India would be in a far better situation politically and socially than it is today.

And this is the thing that annoys me. You say, “Please don’t demean them, many of them are informed,” but the statement itself already sounds patronizing. What the fuck are you even trying to say?
TL;DR:
I don’t like the subtle superiority complex in the way some people from this movement talk about Nepal and Bangladesh. Saying Indian Gen Z is more “politically aware” and “constitutionally respectful” sounds patronizing, as if neighboring countries are politically immature or chaotic. These are completely different nations with different histories, scales, and political realities, so comparing them like that while sounding morally superior just comes off arrogant.

People criticize the courts and say they are corrupt or captured by the old parties, and now people are even criticizing Interpol for not taking the step of arresting them. But do people genuinely not understand that politics, in a general sense, does not work through emotions? Do people not realize that the world is not a simple binary of good and bad, where anything that does not go according to your own view or preferred status quo automatically becomes “wrong”?

What genuinely scares me is that the current RSS government may be creating a group of loyalists who are far more radical and far more blindly loyal than any UML jholis or Congress jholis ever were.

Interpol follows very strict procedures before issuing a Red Notice because there have been multiple cases throughout the 20th century where governments tried to weaponize such mechanisms for political agendas. The court’s job is to remain neutral, transparent, and maintain checks and balances on the government. That is one of the core principles of democracy.

And if people start calling the courts “captured” for every single decision they personally dislike, then where exactly are we heading as a society? What does that say about how we view this new government, and even ourselves as people who support it?

This is genuinely concerning, and I hope more people begin to notice it
Democracy cannot function if every institution becomes “corrupt” the moment it disagrees with us. Blind political loyalty is dangerous, no matter which party it comes from.