The sheer amount of anti-Modi hatred at the protests is astonishing. Not just against the government or the Party in general, but against Modi personally.
People are mocking him directly, shouting anti-Modi slogans, singing songs cursing him, defacing his posters and images, and it won't be surprising if people start burning his effigies on the streets.
This is an astonishing failure of Modi's omnipresent PR machinery. For more than a decade, they worked overtime to sanitize Modi's image, mythologizing him as an infallible, quasi-divine entity beyond reproach. Credit for every successful government policy was always attributed to him, while he was carefully kept away from all its failures, for which his minions (e.g. ministers) eagerly absorbed the blame. Corporate media sang his praises and extolled his virtues day after day. It was perhaps the biggest cult of personality in modern India's political history, surpassing even that of Nehru.
And today, it's all going down the drain. The house of cards is crashing down. As always, pride came before the fall. Style can only win over substance for so long.