‘Students are on streets, Opposition should be too’: Gandhi seeks Modi apology after police action

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that the Opposition must be “on the streets” if the country’s students are protesting, amid demonstrations by young people as part of the Cockroach Janta Party’s protest over alleged examination irregularities and the police crackdown during the political campaign’s march to Parliament on Monday.

He also demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise for “what has happened”. During Monday’s protest, security personnel fired tear gas and carried out a lathi-charge to disperse protesters in Central Delhi.

“Every single person who raised a finger on our students…the people who ordered it and people who executed it should be made accountable,” Gandhi said.

Referring to Modi, Gandhi added that “the man who is running this entire system…who is finally accountable for all this should have the decency to apologise to students for what has happened”.

The leader of the Opposition made the remarks at a press conference a day after he, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav were detained by the Delhi Police outside the prime minister’s residence, while protesting against the police action against the demonstrators. They were released hours later.

Gandhi began the press conference by playing a compilation of videos purportedly from Monday’s protest which showed security personnel assaulting...

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