“Nakal Jihad Fuels Uttarakhand’s Protest Fire?”, The Jaipur Dialogues, September 25, 2025:
“The streets of Uttarakhand are witnessing frustrated and unemployed youth. However, the storm of politics that seems to have cleverly latched onto their frustration. While CM Dhami’s government seems to have caught those damaging the exam system, the youth are still on the streets with someone pouring kerosene on their protest fires!
What began as anger over a leaked exam paper has spiraled into a campaign, “Paper Chor, Gaddi Chhod.” Thus, the sloganeering and its projection as a Gen-Z protest raises one question – Are these protests being hijacked to burn the BJP and the state together?
On the morning of the UKSSSC exam, over 22,000 aspirants sat with dreams of government jobs. However, by afternoon, three leaked pages of the paper spread like wildfire online. The Special Task Force swung into action and arrested Khalid Malik, a junior engineer, and his sister Sabia…….”
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