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Congress Calls PM Modi 'Most Youth-Hostile Prime Minister', Hits Out over Failed Education Policy
Public Lokpal
July 21, 2026
Congress Calls PM Modi 'Most Youth-Hostile Prime Minister', Hits Out over Failed Education Policy
New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise to students and resign along with Union home minister Amit Shah for the police “brutality” against students who had organised a march to Parliament demanding Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over the exams mess.
Rahul and other MPs met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday morning along with other MPs and conveyed that the Opposition wants to discuss the students’ issues.
"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," Rahul told reporters.
"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 Congress leader said."The whole country knows that the education system and the testing system is broken and has ceased to exist," he said.
Thousands of young and angry people had converged near Parliament on the first day of the Monsoon session on Monday to push for the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. They were pushed back by lathi-wielding and tear-gas firing police and riot police personnel.
Rahul said that the testing system has been hollowed out by termites and that is what the students are stating.
"Why is the PM silent? What is the reason? He should apologise to the students and stop this nonsense of police people thrashing students," Rahul said.
He said he will meet the injured students.
Asked about the Opposition's demand that Pradhan should resign, Rahul said Pradhan was an intermediary.
"Absolutely, he should resign but Dharmendra Pradhan has not beaten up these students, but the home minister [Shah] has, he should resign and the home minister reports to the PM, he should resign," Rahul said.
