From Nepal's Gen Z uprising to India's CJP protests, South Asian youth rallies: ‘Same same, but different’
In July 2026, India's Gen-Z protested against jobless growth and eroding public accountability, leading to the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan after the NEET question paper leak.
The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protest, supported by activist Sonam Wangchuk's 26-day hunger strike, drew parallels with youth-led uprisings in Myanmar (2021), Sri Lanka (2022), Pakistan (2023), Bangladesh (2024), and Nepal (2025).
India's institutional context differs from its neighbors: it is not a military dictatorship like Pakistan and Myanmar, nor a civil autocracy like Bangladesh under Sheikh Hasina, shaping a different trajectory for the protests.
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