He remained the Chairman of the National Security Council till he was succeeded by the current all-powerful President Kassym–Jomart Tokayev. Nursultan Nazarbayev, a former loyalist of the Communist Party when Kazakhstan was part of Soviet Russia, is also known as Elbasy meaning “the father of the nation.” He has been the President of Kazakhstan for 5 consecutive terms starting from 1990, finally stepping down in 2019 as President. Photo of demonstrators holding hands and making a human chain : Demonstrators denouncing the doubling of prices for liquefied petroleum gas have clashed with police in Kazakhstan's largest city and held protests in about a dozen other cities. Locals were heard chanting in the streets “Kazakhs are accustomed to patience but they have grown tired and they have had enough.” More and more people gathered to join the march against the exploitative politico-economic class, the group that lives well while everyone else is in poverty.
The protests grew past the concern with fuel prices to address the wider grievances such as the Kazakh elites trading political freedom for economic growth, rise of inequality, and lack of people’s representation in politics - with rampant corruption to top it all. This led to the citizens’ bottled up emotions oozing out. The protests were sparked by soaring fuel prices, with LPG prices almost doubling on 1 st January, 2022. The protestors across Kazakhstan demanded a more democratically open political system, disturbing the balance of power of the government’s authoritarian and plutocratic regime. For the first time since the formation of a sovereign and independent Kazakhstan in 1990, there have been protests of a high magnitude, with charred cars littering the nomadic cities. It commenced in front of the mayor's house in the Mangystau province, and soon the mayor’s office in Almaty, the country’s largest city, was set ablaze. Kazakhstan, once the bastion of stability in central Asia, witnessed an uprising of common citizens and large gatherings of civilians against the plutocratic.
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