A guest teacher at a government school in Haryana’s Rohtak was suspended two days after she participated in the June 6 protest organised by the Cockroach Janta Party at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, The Hindu reported on Thursday.

Sulekha Dalal, a teacher at the Government Middle School in Rainkpura, was “placed under suspension with effect from June 8” by the district elementary education officer in a June 10 order.

The document mentioned no reason for the action. However, the District Elementary Education Officer Bijender Hooda told The Hindu that Dalal had “violated the conduct rules for government employees by leaving her station and taking part in the protest without prior approval”.

The protests by the CJP had come in the wake of the cancellation of the undergraduate National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for medical college admissions following allegations of a paper leak.

Students and job seekers have also alleged irregularities in the Class 12 exam conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education and the Staff Selection Commission test for government posts.

The action against Dala came after a video was widely shared online showing her addressing protesters.

In the clip, she could be heard describing the protest as a “do or die” fight and said she was participating as a mother supporting children, The Indian Express reported.

“Now the mother of the cockroach has stepped into the field,” she reportedly said. “We are with our children. One mother is the mother of the entire nation.”

Dalal later said her family had “no political background for generations”, The Hindu reported.

According to the order by the district elementary education officer, she will receive a subsistence allowance during the suspension period, The Tribune reported. Her headquarters during this time will be the office of the block education officer in Rohtak.

Dalal told The Hindu that her 21-year-old son did not make it to the final list for the Delhi Head Constable recruitment despite working hard, and she alleged that the examination paper had been leaked.

She said that while the undergraduate medical entrance examination received media attention, there had been little discussion about the Head Constable exam.

The Cockroach Janta Party describes itself as a “political front of the youth, by the youth, for the youth”.

It was launched on May 16 in response to reports of remarks by Chief Justice Surya Kant on the previous day comparing some unemployed youngsters to “cockroaches”. Since then, the campaign has garnered more than 22 million followers on Instagram.

The chief justice claimed on May 16 that he had been misquoted by sections of the media and that it was baseless to say that he criticised young people in general. Kant claimed he had specifically criticised “those who have entered professions like the Bar [legal profession] with the aid of fake and bogus degrees”.

Edited by Sneha.

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