New Delhi: Escalating its attack on the Centre amid the ongoing Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led agitation, senior Congress leaders including party president
Mallikarjun Kharge, Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal and Pawan Khera staged a protest at Lok Kalyan Marg on Tuesday, July 21. The leaders were shortly detained by the police. The leaders demanded the resignation of the Prime Minister and Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, intensifying political pressure as protests continue to gather momentum on the streets.
#WATCH | Delhi: Congress leaders including party president Mallikarjun Kharge, Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal, Pawan Khera and others hold a protest at Lok Kalyan Marg, demanding the resignations of Prime Minister and Education Minister Dharmendra… pic.twitter.com/6YOl99JZ6l
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"We have marched to PM Modi’s house to demand answers from him for the brutalities against young students yesterday. The Government doesn’t want to take any accountability or does it want to have a debate on it in Parliament. PM and HM must resign for destroying the future of India’s youth," Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi posted on X (formerly Twitter). Check Live Updates Here
According to visuals shared by news agney ANI, there was also a scuffle between the Congress leaders and the police personnel.
Earlier today, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi met students admitted at the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital. The students were injured in police action during the CJP-led protest march to Parliament over the NEET paper leak issue on Monday.
In a post on X, the Congress said Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, along with General Secretary (Organisation K) C Venugopal, met the students injured during the "police brutality and lathi charge" in Monday's youth protest.
"Today, the future of students in the country is being trampled, and lathis are being rained down on those who raise their voices, for which Narendra Modi should apologise. The students' demand is absolutely clear -- the government should take responsibility for the paper leak and Dharmendra Pradhan should resign," the party said.
Earlier, Rahul Gandhi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must apologise to students for the "police brutality" against them and resign along with Home Minister Amit Shah.
Interacting with reporters in Parliament House complex, Gandhi said that he met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in the morning along with other MPs and conveyed that the opposition wants to discuss the students' issue.
"He (Birla) said he will have to ask the government. So understand, the Speaker is telling us that to debate in Parliament he has to take permission from the government," Gandhi said.
"The issue is of students and the future of youth, and the way people are being beaten up, this is completely 'unIndian'. Modi ji has not even apologised for what has happened yesterday," the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said.
Protesters, demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and accountability for irregularities in the exam system, attempted to march to the complex but were pushed back with teargas and batons on Monday. Several police personnel and protesters were injured in the scuffle. However, the protesters have gathered at Jantar Mantar and are continuing their protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar.
