India's Ruling Coalition Leaders Cast Youth Protests as a Power Grab by Established Parties
Leaders of India's governing coalition are trying to present the demonstrations as a power grab by traditional political parties rather than a grass-roots youth movement. According to The New York Times, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's approach aims to calm the coalition's allies.
Leaders of India's governing coalition are trying to shape how the current protests are seen: not as a grass-roots movement of young people, often called Generation Z, but as an attempt by traditional political parties to seize power. The New York Times reported this on 21 October.
According to the newspaper, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is using this framing to calm the coalition's allies and to rein in the protests' influence.
The source says only that coalition leaders portray the demonstrations as a political struggle for power. It gives no further details on where the protests are taking place, how large they are, what participants are demanding or what specific steps the government has taken.
