The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has latched onto Congress MP Manish Tewari’s remarks about the recent GenZ uprising in South Asian countries to mount an attack on Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi.
“Entitlement is no longer acceptable to Gen X, Y, Z,” posted Manish Tewari on X. The post sparked instant reaction from the BJP camp with party’s IT Department head Amit Malviya branding Congress MP Rahul Gandhi as the “ultimate Nepo kid” of Indian politics.
Congress MP Tewari cited the recent uprisings in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, which led to the ouster of the present governments, to say that entitlement is no longer accepted to the public.
“The toppling of – President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka in July 2023, Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh in July 2024, KP Sharma Oli in Nepal in September 2025 and now the protests against Ferdinand Marcos Jr in Philippines have won word written over them ENTITLEMENT IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE TO GEN X, Y, Z,” Tewari posted on X.
BJP’s Amit Malviya was quick to link Tewari’s post with Rahul Gandhi, calling him the “Nepo kid” of Indian politics. Malviya claimed that Congress leaders were “fed up” of Gandhi.
“Senior Congress leader Manish Tewari, member of the G-23 rebel group, takes aim at Rahul Gandhi – the ultimate ‘Nepo Kid’ of Indian politics. Forget Gen Z, even Congress’s own veterans are fed up with his regressive politics. The revolt is now from within!” Malviya posted on X.
Manish Tewari responded to Malviya saying, “Gosh, I just wish that some people would grow up in life.”
“Everything does not have to be dumbed down to a Cong – BJP he said she said or targeting X or Y. What is happening in South Asia and East Asia has serious National Security implications and why it is happening needs to be understood in the correct perspective,” he added.
Notably, in both, Nepal and Bangladesh, public protests challenged the established governments and shook the political systems, forcing the Prime Ministers – KP Sharma Oli and Sheikh Hasina – to step down. Sri Lanka too had witnessed mass protests between March and July 2022, fuelled by inflation, leading to Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ouster.