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Explore the power and relevance of modern grassroots movements. The video discusses how the Cockroach Janta Party, born out of social media, is facing serious threats, proving it's a force to be reckoned with, much like youth-led uprisings seen in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal.

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00:00Well, he's received death threats. And this goes back to my earlier point that it has clearly alarmed those in
00:08power that this, I mean, I don't know the extent of these death threats and how, you know, serious and
00:14credible they are, but he has definitely received them.
00:17And it's clearly alarmed those enough that they want to try and, you know, shut him down, basically. So in
00:24some ways, you know, I certainly take Aryan's point, but I don't think it matters whether he is, I don't
00:31think he has to be, you know, the next leader of India.
00:35I don't think you can kind of dismiss the movement because you don't see it going all the way to
00:41the top. I still think it has enormous relevance and impact, even if it doesn't get that far.
00:47I mean, you only have to look at Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal to see that there have been, you know,
00:53youth movements there that have been born out of social media and, you know, toppled governments in like the space
00:58of a couple of days.
00:59So we have seen this before, I think, and I think it's enough that, you know, he's getting death threats,
01:05they're being shut down online. It's clearly something, you know, worth, worth taking note of.
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