Anti-CEC protest: Mapping key players, organisations shaping overseas campaigns
India Today · Subodh Kumar ·
The CJP protests have drawn support from opposition-linked political networks international advocacy organisations and diaspora groups with connections spanning the Global Progressive Alliance George Soros-funded institutions and overseas campaigns
The CJP protests have drawn support from opposition-linked political networks, international advocacy organisations and diaspora groups, with connections spanning the Global Progressive Alliance, George Soros-funded institutions and overseas campaigns.
The Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP) protests over the NEET paper leak, which rocked Delhi in June, have since broadened into a campaign against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. With the Congress, Left parties and other opposition groups joining the protests, questions have emerged over whether the mobilisation is entirely organic or is being amplified by a wider network of domestic political actors, overseas advocacy organisations and international campaign groups.
Are international NGOs, global activists and the opposition working in tandem to put pressure on the government? An examination of the connections cited by the groups involved offers a broader picture of how a domestic political protest has gained international visibility.
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