# ‘The idea that Modi must be feared because he holds all levers of power has gone out of the window’

https://mins.news/en/video/100148

- France 24 English, 2026-10-14 16:51 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU4s8-0RHuQ

> As India’s youth protest movement faces an increasingly combative government, the question is whether Narendra Modi is losing his most powerful political asset: the perception that he is invincible. South Asia scholar Subir Sinha says the demonstrations matter beyond opposition activists’ arrests and the growing confrontation between protesters and state institutions.

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