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Large swathes of central Delhi came to a standstill on Monday as thousands of young people took to the streets to demand the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. As the police lathicharged the protestors and lobbed tear gas shells on them, Scroll reporters were on the ground to capture the chaos. In this discussion, reporters Anant Gupta and Ayush Tiwari recap and analyse the day’s dramatic developments and what this outpouring of youth anger means for the future of the Modi government.