Anti-reservation campaign could fracture youth unity, benefit BJP: analysts

Critics argue that the growing anti-reservation campaign risks fragmenting the cross-caste youth coalition that mobilised during the NEET-CJP protests at Jantar Mantar. The push could exploit divisions among young voters along caste lines, offering the BJP a new political fault line to exploit.

Meanwhile, observers say the focus on reservation debates sidesteps the underlying crisis of shrinking employment opportunities and economic decline affecting Indian youth across communities. The debate, they contend, diverts attention from structural job scarcity rather than addressing it.