CJP Protest Shook PM's 20-Year Image in Just Two Weeks, says Arundhati

The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led youth protest at Jantar Mantar "destroyed" Prime Minister Narendra Modi's public image of more than two decades in just two weeks and delivered a political blow that is "bigger than any election victory", acclaimed author Arundhati Roy has said.

Speaking at the launch of the Hindi translation of her book "Mother Mary Comes to Me", titled "Meri Maa, Meri Gangster", on Monday, Roy argued that while electoral victories and defeats are only one aspect of politics, the recent public mobilisation had shown that even narratives built over decades could be shaken within



weeks.

"What I like the most is that no one knows what will happen to us, the country. The script is being written. And everyone has their own part. People often believed they would have to live under the same conditions for a thousand years, but in two weeks, it was shaken a little, from the roots. 

"The image of 24 years (of PM Modi)... made by spending crores of rupees, not even addressing a press conference, where some call him the incarnation of Vishnu... and in two weeks, cockroaches have destroyed that whole 24 years," Roy told a packed hall at the India International Centre (IIC).