No jobs and a bleak future: Has the political class failed India's youth?

Rahul Gandhi has been criticised for "trivialising" the security breach in Parliament by belatedly raising unemployment as a political issue

The protestors in the Parliamentary attack of December 13, 2023 were clearly naive, and their method patently criminal. But even while policing failures are examined threadbare, their political message should not be lost. Ignoring caste and regional affiliations, they just wanted to send a message to the entire political class about youth unemployment. They appear to have no coherent ideology, though they claimed inspiration from Bhagat Singh, Subhash Chandra Bose and Vivekananda.

However bizarre the re-enactment of Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Datt throwing bombs and leaflets in the Central Assembly on April 8, 1929, it is important to