How Modi faces his first broad-based protest ever — not one by specific interest groups | Political Pulse News
With crowds sustaining at Jantar Mantar a day after the police crackdown on the Cockroach Janta Party’s Parliament march on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces for the first time a broad-based protest movement – something different from protests by specific interest groups that he has faced till now, mostly as Prime Minister but also once from Narmada Bachao Andolan activists as Chief Minister of Gujarat. On Tuesday afternoon, the Jantar Mantar protest site – having multiple barricades and large numbers of police personnel from the Delhi Police and Rapid Action Force – again saw a packed crowd. There were young people with bandages – indicating that they decided to return a day after the clashes with the police – and many who decided to come, from Delhi as well as outside, on Tuesday after they saw visuals of the violence during the Parliament march. And the profile of the protesters is mixed and diverse – anglicised youngsters, lower middle class young people, those from Delhi and those from outside, and also parents of students …
