Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said students deserve justice and demanded that an independent Supreme Court-monitored high-powered committee be constituted to probe the “brutalities” against them.
The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha also shared on X a video clip of police lathi-charging students. “Students deserve justice. An independent SC-monitored high-powered committee must be constituted to probe brutalities against our students,” Gandhi said on X, referring to the crackdown on agitators by security forces during the July 20 Cockroach Janta Party-led protest march to Parliament and on student demonstrators in other parts of the country.
Gandhi also said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s absence from Parliament “reeks of guilt”. He asked why Shah is “so scared” of coming to Parliament and explaining the brutal violence against students. “It reeks of guilt,” he added.
Gandhi had also demanded the sacking of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday and a Supreme Court-monitored probe into what he claimed was a “brutal attack” on protesting students and the use of pellet guns on them.
The former Congress president alleged that by ordering the “brutalities” on students, Shah was culpable and hence should be removed. He said that in case Shah did not know about the use of pellet guns on protesters, he was incompetent.
The BJP hit back, accusing Rahul Gandhi of telling a “bundle of lies and demanded his apology for “misusing” the House by making “baseless” allegations.
Rahul Gandhi launched an attack on Amit Shah in the Lok Sabha while speaking on a debate on the Bill seeking to make stricter punishment for paper leaks. He alleged that Shah was behind police excesses and firing against student protesters, triggering a massive uproar from the treasury benches inside and outside Parliament.
Many of Rahul Gandhi’s remarks made in the Lok Sabha were later expunged by the Speaker, but the Congress leader repeated his charges outside Parliament.
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