Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Tuesday urged Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi to end the protest he and several other Congress leaders are staging outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence.
Rahul, his sister Priyanka Gandhi and several top Congress leaders are staging the protest outside PM Modi’s house, demanding his resignation over police brutality against students during yesterday’s march to Parliament.
Singh, along with Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, reached Lok Kalyan Marg and spoke with Rahul, urging him to end the protest.
He reportedly told Gandhi that the government is ready to discuss the issue of paper leaks in Parliament during the ongoing Monsoon Session.
The meeting comes shortly after Rahul Gandhi gave a “Chalo PM House” call, urging “every patriotic Indian” to join Congress party’s dharna outside PM’s house.
“An attack on students is an attack on every Indian family. Prime Minister Modi thinks he can escape without giving answers, without facing any consequences – he won’t be able to, not at all this time,” he said.
“The voice of India’s students will not be ignored,” the Congress leader said.
Rahul said that they 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,” he added.
This comes a day after thousands of students marched towards the Parliament but were stopped by the police.
The police resorted to lathicharge to disperse the student protesters, resulting in injuries to many of them.
The protest march was called by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) against Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged paper leaks.