Dharmendra Pradhan, CJP Protest: India’s Gen Z Protests Force Minister, But What Next?

The discontent among India’s youth and the courage to vote in the streets has spread to other parts of the country.

Somaya Korde was placed under house arrest after she urged people online to join the July 20 protest in Mumbai, but she attended several demonstrations in the following days.

Pradhan’s resignation, the 26-year-old said, “is not the end, but just the beginning.”

“This is the first time many of us have come out to protest in this generation. But there are bigger issues that need to be talked about, and we will talk about them,” she said.

Korde, the first woman in her family to graduate in law and a recent candidate for the civic polls, hails from a community officially designated as “backward” due to its historical social and economic disadvantage.

Like many young Indians, she sees education as a path to a better life, but appearing in the NEET paper shatters her faith in a system that promises to reward hard work.

“Schools and colleges are being privatized, there are paper leaks, there are not enough jobs if you graduate. In a democracy, all this raises questions about the accountability of the government,” she said.