When Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as education minister, protesters at Jantar Mantar stayed on to celebrate. Newslaundry asked these youngsters a simple question: what did the protest and the resignation actually meant to them?
A man who had been coming for days said the movement had frightened the government and, more importantly, given courage to people who had been too afraid of being targeted to speak at all. A corporate worker who could only get away because it was a Saturday said the credit belonged to Gen Z, who took the lathis and did not lose heart, and that the real lesson was that the government is not above us. A man dressed as Yamraj came to collect a minister’s post. Another came as Amitabh Bachchan.
