'Answer for crime': Rahul attacks PM, Shah over police brutality against students
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah over alleged police brutality against students protesting in Delhi. Gandhi argues that the government is failing to address youth unemployment and is instead ignoring the grievances of the nation's students.
Why it matters
This highlights the ongoing political tension in India regarding youth employment and the government's handling of public dissent.
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday upped the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah, accusing them of "doling out pardons" instead of apologising to the students for the alleged police brutality against them during the protest march in Delhi on July 20.A day after his "Chaatron Ki Goonj" event at Prayagraj, Rahul, in a social media post on X, said that students are the light of the nation and he stands with them with "full strength.""'I have no way out left now' - This is what a student said to me yesterday in Prayagraj. Years of preparation, sold the family land, parents’ debts, and still nothing to show for it. This defeat is not his.
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