Earlier this week, the AISA national president was present at Mumbai's YB Chavan Auditorium, at an event attended by the likes of actor Shabana Azmi, comic and writer Varun Grover, activist Rhiya Ahir, actor Raghu Ram and filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee. But can the Left youth leader tap into the anxieties of the larger Gen Z population in Mumbai, where the Bal Thackeray-led Shiv Sena had turned unemployment into an identity issue, shaping the political narrative of Maharashtra?