India, Aug. 7 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday said the BJP government had received a "rude wake-up call" amid recent developments involving protests and electoral outcomes. He said the growing engagement of Gen Z and Gen Alpha with political issues reflected a changing landscape that parties could not ignore.

"I think the party in power certainly got a rude wake-up call. We've seen not only the cockroach protests and the resignation of a minister and a bill being passed in some haste because of all of this, but we are also seeing now two by-elections, one by people, in the case of Prashant Kishor, winning a very safe BJP seat that they've won for over three decades, nine times they've won that seat, they've now lost it, and Congr...