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Info: India's Cockroach march in numbers (from the GONOM post)

Quick summary for anyone catching up, all from the GONOM post:

• Started in May as an online joke after India's chief justice compared unemployed young people to 'cockroaches'
• Instagram page: 22 million+ followers in two weeks
• July 20 march toward parliament: Guardian says 50,000+ people
• Police: 60 civilians and 118 police injured. Organisers: hundreds of protesters hurt
• Demands: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns over medical entrance exam leaks, exam reform, compensation for families of students who died by suicide after leaks

Note the injury numbers depend a lot on who's counting.