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Youth Are Bypassing the Party, Not the Ballot

A wave of digitally native, leaderless youth movements - from the satirical Cockroach Janta Party to the viral popularity of accessible political figures like Kerala CM V.D. Satheesan - has forced Indian parties to react to conversations they did not start and cannot fully control. Commentators have linked this to earlier decentralised mobilisations such as the 2017 Jallikattu protests and Sri Lanka's 2022 Aragalaya, raising…