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We go to Mumbai to see the BJP\u2019s charm and punishment campaign with the younger generation.<\/p>\n<p>Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show\u2019s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=8412\">\u2018Profits won.\u2019 The child safety trial against Meta kicks off in federal court<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s ruling party, the BJP, realizes it has a problem reaching young voters.  Last month, youth-led protests, sparked by education policy and high unemployment, shook the political establishment. The Gen Z protest leaders started the \u201ccockroach\u201d political movement, so-named after an official disparagingly compared unemployed youth to \u201ccockroaches.\u201d  So now the ruling party is revamping it\u2019s communications strategy.  But even as they hope to woo young voters, police are arresting protest organizers on public order charges.  We go to Mumbai to see the BJP\u2019s charm and punishment campaign with the younger generation.<\/p>\n<p>Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show\u2019s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\"target=\"_blank\"   >plus.npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[131,1668],"class_list":["post-8419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state-of-the-world-from-npr","tag-india","tag-narendra-modi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Charm and charges for India\u2019s youth - Best USA Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=8419\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charm and charges for India\u2019s youth - Best USA Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"India\u2019s ruling party, the BJP, realizes it has a problem reaching young voters. 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