What if all cockroaches came together?’ The youth movement threatening to shake up India’s politics | India | The Guardian https://share.google/mjAeRGHOE5xwEa8hu.

The response to the above article was sent to Hannah and Katherine Viner, Editor of the Guardian
When the Indian media showed Hannah at the much hyped rally of the Cockroach Party in Delhi I knew that an utterly biased and rancorous article would appear in the Guardian. The Cockroach Party according to Hannah is a threat to the establishment. The party according to Hannah had 22 million followers on Instagram within 2 weeks. In fact most of the followers were from countries which hate India. Further she claimed that the Modi government is notoriously intolerant of dissent and had, ‘attempted” to block the Cockroach party’s X account. She further mendaciously claims that the BJP under Modi has consolidated unprecedented power across government, media and the judiciary. The State she says has routinely gone after political opponents and critics. A fake claim worthy of Goebbles. Hannah was there covering the rally. She stood out as a non Indian and yet no one stopped her. It is not as if the government does not know of her dislike of what she calls the Hindu nationalist government. I cannot imagine her being able to do that in Pakistan, China and many other countries. India tolerates and that is seen as her weakness. If as Hannah claims Modi’s government goes after its opponents the rally would not have taken place.
Regarding the Rally itself Hannah had to admit a rally of thousands did not translate into her claims of Instagram. In a country of 1.4 billion a few thousand at a rally is an irrelevance. The people of India know what Modi has done for the country. The recent elections in Bengal and Modi’s massive win shows that the people of India know an honest, proud Hindu when they see one.
Finally Hannah quotes a known anti Hindu academic Pratap Bhanu who claims exams are an instrument of social control under a corrupt and broken education system. So what does he want to replace it with? India’s education system has produced some of the world’s best CEO’s, Scientists, Doctors, Engineers and inventors. The world is benefitting from India’s expertise.
Nitin Mehta.
6th June 2026