Abhijeet Dipke, a student who founded the 'cockroach' protest movement, became an overnight public figure after the campaign helped force an Indian minister to resign.
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The student behind 'cockroach' protests that forced an Indian minister to quit
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Abhijeet Dipke, a student who founded the 'cockroach' protest movement, became an overnight public figure after the campaign helped force an Indian minister to resign.
The decisive shift was the movement's success in converting a student-led protest into direct political
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