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Rahul Gandhi has said the students’ agitation against paper leaks has given a warning to the Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh regime that it cannot run the government as its personal fiefdom and if they did, they would face 10 times the scale of this stir.
Gandhi said Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was a ‘symbol of corruption’ and ‘it is good that he is gone’.
Pradhan resigned on Saturday amid mounting pressure due to the protests over the NEET paper leak controversy.
He described the students’ protest as a fight between ‘the past’ represented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS, and the future of India.
Gandhi said he was confident that ‘the future of India will defeat the past’ and called on other groups to show courage and stand up, asserting that it was time to remove the government.
He also urged the prime minister to apologise to the students out of respect for the future of the country and for the ‘atrocities’ committed on them during the agitation.
In a video message posted on X after Pradhan’s resignation, the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha said, “Daro mat (don’t be afraid). Let’s get rid of this regime that is attacking India, destroying our Constitution, capturing all our institutions.”
Gandhi said his resignation is a huge step towards rebuilding the education system.
“It’s a symbolic step because he was a symbol, but it is still a big step,” he said.
