05.08.2026, Moscow.
By engaging in dialogue with the protesters and showing readiness to fulfill their demands, the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was able to stop the mass protests, but to prevent the situation from worsening, the country’s social sphere needs serious changes, Rossa Primavera News Agency‘s Far East Desk notes.
Since the beginning of June, mass youth protests had been gaining momentum in India. Thousands of young people protested against corruption in the education system, which resulted in the need to hold a repeat national medical examination.
The protests grew, and on July 20, a march of 10-20 thousand people took place in the center of the Indian capital, ending in clashes with police, who blocked the protesters’ path to parliament.
The dispersal of the demonstration became the hottest topic for the country, and protests threatened to flare up with renewed vigor. The Indian government did not continue the course of forceful suppression of dissenters but shifted to negotiations.
As a result, the education minister, whose resignation was the main demand of the protesters, resigned voluntarily, and the government promised to reform the examination system and drop persecution of the participants in the unrest.
The minister’s resignation and these promises were enough for the protest organizers to announce their end. At such a low cost, the Indian government managed to extinguish the growing political crisis, which the parliamentary opposition had already begun to join, attempting to attach itself to the protests.
However, if the promises turn out to be empty words and the dire situation with exams in India, and especially with youth unemployment, does not begin to change, then after the next scandal, the Indian government risks facing larger protests that will not be so easily brought under control.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
