In an opinion article published by Amar Desh on August 2, 2026, writer Kakon Reza compares India’s Gen-Z movement with Bangladesh’s 2024 July uprising. He argues that India’s government learned from Bangladesh’s experience by avoiding severe police repression and compelling Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to resign. According to the writer, these steps prevented the Indian movement from becoming a wider revolution and brought it to a halt.

Reza contends that Bangladesh’s quota movement could have ended if its demands had been accepted. Instead, he writes, the then government’s obstinacy, violence and retaliatory conduct turned it into a revolution. He also says there were no student deaths from police gunfire in India’s movement, creating a markedly different environment from Bangladesh.

The article criticizes Bangladesh’s older political leadership, saying young people, students, young party activists and working youths were the principal force behind the 2024 movement. Reza argues that senior leaders were not key stakeholders in the uprising and warns that failing to understand the revolution’s significance and young people’s grievances could signal future danger.