Is Neha Bora, India’s new red star, Modi’s real Gen Z threat?
Firebrand student leader has become face of the youth protest movement taking on Modi's Hindu majoritarian government.
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Firebrand student leader has become face of the youth protest movement taking on Modi's Hindu majoritarian government.
He accused the BJP of copying the Congress’s ‘Pehli Naukri Pakki’ poll promise without understanding its objectives
Youth-driven protests have been popping up all over Europe: in Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Albania, Serbia and Greece. The spark here in France was deteriorating conditions in high schools and universities, particularly for students from underprivileged backgrounds. Meanwhile, wages aren't keeping up with inflation. The housing crisis is front and centre in places like Spain and Portugal, while corruption and democratic backsliding have sparked uproar in Albania and Serbia.
The protests have further polarised the French and turned the youth into a key, angry, voting bloc.
Demonstrations are spreading across the continent.
‘If you don’t have money, power or don’t speak English, the system will push you out without a second thought,’ said Rahul Gandhi
Rao said there was a growing sense of nationalism among the youth, which, he claimed, was reflected in recent student union elections in Punjab, Kerala and Hyderabad
Despite tens of thousands of security personnel deployed to stop them, youth protesters in India scaled barricades last week, chanted anti-government slogans and scuffled with police officers trying to drag them away. “Long live the revolution,” shouted one young man before police bundled him into a bus. Street protests in India this year are likely to be higher than at any time in the past decade, the independent Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project has said, as dissent mounts...
The meeting held at the party’s Indira Bhawan headquarters was also attended by general secretary, (organisation) K. C. Venugopal, and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
Tens of thousands of people joined rallies across France on Tuesday to support protesting high school students, boosting a movement that poses a major challenge to President Emmanuel Macron as his term in office winds down. Some 161,500 people turned out, according to the interior ministry -- more than double the 71,500 it gave for the last nationwide demonstrations on Thursday last week. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Andrew Smith, Lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen Mary's London, says that France's youth is undergoing "a crisis of hope" which is pushing "the anger and the sense that something has to change".