Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government at the Centre over the recent protests
against irregularities in the NEET US exam. Speaking in the Lok House during the debate on the anti-paper leak bill, Gandhi said that the protest was not violence or hatred but a deep expression of the youth. He further stated that all political parties, including BJP, should respect the expression of youth. “I was very excited, reassured by what the future of this country did on our streets. This was not anger, not violence, not hatred. This was a deep expression of the youth of this country, of the future generation of this country, and I feel that all political parties must respect this expression, including my friends in the BJP,” the Congress MP stated. “I am pretty certain that if my friends in BJP were to go and ask their own children what they felt about what their brothers and sisters were doing, they would find agreement among their own children. There is nothing wrong with what has happened, and every Indian should be proud,” he added.
