“The ‘Red Flags’ In AISA’s Parent Party Are Easy To Spot. Is Anyone Looking?”, Swarajya Mag, August 08, 2026
“AISA’s parent party CPI(ML) Liberation has published exactly what it wants. Its programme commits to revolution, a people’s army, and treats electoral participation and parliamentary politics as mere tactics to those ends.
The protest at Jantar Mantar is technically over. The minister has resigned and the news cycle seems to be moving beyond it. But something new has emerged from it: a star.
Neha Bora, the AISA activist who sat on hunger strike — though on the sidelines with much less coverage — during the CJP protest is now on her way to becoming a media phenomenon, and social media reels and posts cannot seem to get enough of her. From high-profile podcasts to prime-time news, she is being framed less as one of many activists than as a new face of resistance against the ‘authoritarian’ Indian state.
From her motivation for undertaking a hunger strike to the excesses of the police during the protests, she speaks eloquently on the rights of students, on her faith in the Constitution and on her apprehension about violence. Clips from these interviews are travelling fast, and the ones that travel fastest are the personal ones: Bora as a defiant child standing up to the familial political tradition — a family with a defense background supporting the ‘right-wing’ politics…..”
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