PoliticsIndian youth ‘not scared anymore’: Modi and BJP’s ‘architecture of fear’ meets its match

Anish Gawande, a national spokesperson for the Nationalist Congress Party, says India’s student protests mark a generational rupture in the country’s politics. He describes the protesters as a politically fearless youth challenging what he calls the decade-long “architecture of fear” under Narendra Modi’s government. Gawande argues that the movement is about accountability, not education policy. In his view, it highlights a widening divide between a government used to political dominance and a generation unwilling to accept opacity or state intimidation.

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