Midway into Narendra Modi’s third prime ministerial term, just as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is steadily increasing its strength through winning elections and engineering defections, a new phenomenon has struck it like a bolt from the blue: hints of a Gen Z revolt.
Hitherto confined to social media, the “cockroaches” emerged on the ground at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on June 6. What started as a joke has turned serious.