PM Modi must apologise, resign along with Shah: Rahul on police crackdown on CJP protest
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah following police action against students protesting the education and testing system. Gandhi criticized the government's handling of the protests and the alleged lack of parliamentary debate on the issue.
Why it matters
This highlights escalating political tensions in India regarding systemic failures in education and the government's response to public dissent.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday (July 21, 2026) demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must apologise to students for the police brutality against them and resign along with Home Minister Amit Shah.
Speaking with reporters in Parliament House complex, Mr. Gandhi said 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, the Speaker is telling us that to debate in Parliament he has to take permission from the government,” Mr. Gandhi said.
“The issue is of students 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.
These students are protesting over the education and testing system, he said.
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