Debate With Arnab: Super Aggressive BJP Takes On The Pro-Tukde Gen Z Pretenders

Debate With Arnab: Are the protests an independent youth movement—or a platform for organised political mobilisation? Arnab takes up the confrontation over Gen Z protests, campus politics and slogans supporting Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid.

Campus protests and controversial graffiti have triggered a BJP-Congress showdown. At Jamia Millia Islamia, the BJP questioned Congress over “Free Kashmir” and “Free Sharjeel Imam” slogans, while protesting students maintained that their principal demand was the restoration of an elected students’ union.

Separately, the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party has mobilised over examination paper leaks, unemployment and electoral-roll concerns. The Election Commission and government have denied allegations that the voter-verification exercise favours the BJP.

Has political messaging overshadowed students’ demands? Do slogans supporting jailed activists represent the wider youth movement? Where does democratic dissent end and partisan mobilisation begin?

Watch Debate With Arnab on Republic TV as panellists confront the competing claims.