'Keep protesting': Rahul Gandhi extols youth amid police crackdown in Delhi

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday backed youth protesters demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.The Lok Sabha leader of the opposition said he had been fighting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological mentor of the ruling BJP, for “over a decade now” and knew them “inside out, like the back of my hand."“The core characteristic of these people is cowardice. Narendra Modi, (Union home minister) Amit Shah, Gyanesh Kumar and (National Security Advisor) Ajit Doval are slowly finding the space closing around them. We are closing that space,” Rahul Gandhi said in a video message on X.“Mr Modi, do whatever you want. Call out all the police. Arrest all the leaders. Arrest all the young people.