India youth movement agrees to talk but insists protests will continue

India's youth-led Cockroach movement is refusing to back down. France 24 reports that leaders are meeting with government officials today to discuss a standoff over exam irregularities and other scandals in the country's education system. The movement represents Prime Minister Narendra Modi's most serious domestic youth challenge since taking office in twenty fourteen. Activist Sonam Wangchuk ended a twenty-six-day hunger strike just hours before the talks began, a moment that signals the depth of public anger—so much so that the government has extended a mobile internet shutdown in the capital.

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