Activist Sonam Wangchuk on Wednesday preferred to label the protest in Ladakh as a “youth” demonstration rather than terming it a 'Gen Z protest'. In a virtual press conference, Sonam Wangchuk said, “These people call themselves Gen Z, that's why we said that otherwise I refer to them as youths. Gen Z is not my term; people often use it to describe them. Actually, these are the youths.”

When asked whether the youths were inspired by the recent protests in Nepal, Wangchuk said, “I don't know if they had taken inspiration from Nepal, but the way they come out together, nobody has imagined that.” Wangchuk openly condemned the actions of youths but reasoned that the protests took a violent turn because of the “venting of frustration” among the youths due to unemployment in the Union Territory

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