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Copies were reportedly sold for anywhere between 500,000 rupees and three million rupees.<br \/>These leaks, together with unemployment and rising inequality, have added to simmering unrest and anger among the young in India. Nearly 40 per cent of Indian graduates aged 25 and below are unemployed, while around 20 per cent of those aged between 25 and 29 are still without jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of anguished and distressed youngsters gathered in protest in India\u2019s capital on June 6, rallying under the banner of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a newly formed viral youth movement, to demonstrate their anger against recurring exam paper leaks and other crises affecting the country&#8217;s youth.Protesters, led by CJP representatives, are calling for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>India\u2019s youth strain to be heard as angry \u2018cockroaches\u2019 stage New Delhi march - 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