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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday hit out at the centre, accusing the government of trying to intimidate "India's Gen Z into silence." Calling the BJP
leadership "India's past," he warned them to "be careful about how you treat India's future." "PM Modi and Amit Shah - you cannot threaten Gen Z into silence. First you broke their bones. Now you are filing FIRs and taking down their accounts. You are India’s past. Be careful about how you treat India’s future," Rahul Gandhi posted on X (formerly Twitter).
Gandhi has been attacking the central government over alleged police excesses against students during the NEET paper leak protests-led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). On Thursday, Gandhi said that Home Minister Amit Shah's absence from Parliament "reeks of guilt",
Gandhi also shared on X a video clip of police lathi-charging students. "Students deserve justice. An independent SC-monitored high powered committee must be constituted to probe brutalities against our students," he said.
In another post, Gandhi asked why Shah is "so scared" of coming to Parliament and explaining the brutal violence against students. "It reeks of guilt," he added.
Later, in a Facebook post, Gandhi said, "Unless the system changes, paper leaks will not stop!"
Gandhi also on Wednesday demanded the sacking of Shah and the constitution of a Supreme Court-monitored probe into what he claimed was a "brutal attack" on protesting students on July 20 and the use of pellet guns on them.
The former Congress president alleged that by ordering the "brutalities" on students, Shah was culpable and hence should be removed. He said that in case the minister did not know about the use of pellet guns on protesters, he was incompetent.
The BJP hit back, accusing Gandhi of telling a "bundle of lies and demanded he apologise for "misusing" the House by making "baseless" allegations.
Gandhi also launched an attack on Shah in Lok Sabha while speaking on a debate on the bill seeking stricter punishment for paper leaks on Wednesday. He alleged that Shah was behind the police excesses and firing on student protesters, triggering a massive uproar from the treasury benches inside and outside Parliament. The Speaker expunged many of Gandhi's remarks made in Lok Sabha, but the Congress leader repeated his charges outside Parliament.
