A weeks-old Gen-Z protest group managed to get India’s Modi to blink. What’s next?
But last weekend, an online-fueled and youth-led protest movement just a few weeks old landed a blow none of the embattled mainstream political parties who oppose him have been able to: They forced his government to back down.
For days, tens of thousands of Gen Z protesters had flooded the streets of New Delhi, led by a satirical movement called the “Cockroach Janta Party”, to demand accountability for a university entrance exam leak they say robbed millions of students of a fair shot at their future.
Pradhan’s resignation on Saturday was met with jubilation – and not a little surprise – at the Jantar Mandar, the eighteenth-century observatory in the capital that had become the colorful, buoyant base camp for the protest movement.
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