Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday stepped up his attack on the government over student protests and said that the students
are protesting for a legitimate reason and the government is assaulting them. Addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters in Delhi, Rahul Gandhi targeted the government and stated that the education system in the country has been "rigged" under the current regime. "The thing that is very clear to everybody is that our education system, which was known to be one of the best education systems in the world, is today a rigged system." "What we do know is that 152 paper leaks have taken place over the last decade. If you do the math. So one a month approx. Every month, lakhs of students are told that all the stress that you went through you're going to have to go through again. After that, they tell us we really don't care. 7.5 crore students and their families are affected by this. These are middle-class and poor families. They put their hard-earned money into this," the Congress leader said. "And the best part of this is zero convictions. In the last 10 years, 152 leaks have taken place and zero convictions. So somebody is or a group of people are destroying our education system, India's most valuable asset, destroying the lives of our students. What does the government do? Zero convictions," Rahul Gandhi added.
