00:00The government needs to start listening to what the people of India are saying.
00:03And this is a warning to them.
00:06This is a warning from the students of India, this is a warning from the opposition.
00:09After forcing the first resignation of a cabinet minister under public pressure
00:14and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government,
00:16India's student movement has given the opposition a rare opening.
00:20Rahul Gandhi, India's opposition leader, staged a protest outside Modi's residence
00:25and vowed to raise the protesters' concern in the parliament.
00:29Since the education minister's resignation, Gandhi has also demanded answers from the Home Minister Amit Shah,
00:35Modi's closest aide over the use of batons and tear gas by security forces to disperse demonstrators.
00:42But while recent events have given Gandhi fresh momentum,
00:46his party, the Indian National Congress, has faced numerous setbacks since Modi came to power.
00:51It was only in the last national election that the opposition alliance managed to end the BJP's outright majority
00:57and force it into a coalition government.
01:01Since then, however, the alliance has lost ground in state elections
01:05with more than two dozen lawmakers defecting to Modi's coalition.
01:09Analysts say the minister's resignation has exposed a rare vulnerability in Modi's government.
01:15Whether India's battered opposition can turn that opening into a lasting political gain
01:20now becomes the bigger question.
01:22Now becomes the bigger question.
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