Yet, given the wider political context, dismissing the significance of the Bankipur result altogether would risk overlooking an important signal. Does the rise of CJP show that there is now an opening in India’s political scene? While India’s youth population is starting to stabilise, the mix of being young, urban, with college degrees and digitally connected is something new. What links Jantar Mantar and Chennai is that India’s cities are growing faster than its politics can keep up with. The Jantar Mantar protestors too came from the constituency which Modi’s BJP has drawn heavily upon.