India, July 26 -- Is Gen Z willing to take the battle into its own ranks and weed out their own rotten apples? To enhance their credibility, students all across India must take a pledge not to cheat and ensure that their colleagues not do as well.

Student-led movements have a romantic aura about them; a starry idealism that is hard to resist, an enthusiasm that is infectious and a naive morality that appears beyond reproach. It is an unvarnished expression of prevailing public sentiments. The dharna organized by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to protest the NEET exam paper leak, at the outset appears to embody all of the above. Before we wholeheartedly embrace this movement or put a stamp of validity on it, we...