Rahul Gandhi
The Public Record
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October 11, 2026
The more Modi and his government crack down, the more the anger of Gen Z and students will grow.
— Rahul Gandhi
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by number of sourcesMr. Modi, do whatever you want. Call out all the police: 10,000, 20,000, 50,000, whatever you want. Arrest all the leaders. Arrest all the young people. Arrest us all. We are surrounding you, and we are not going to back down. Mark my…
Youth of India, I am proud of you. Keep protesting. We are standing with you.
As the Leader of the Opposition, it is important for me to help people resist where truth is being crushed.
He should resign. But Dharmendra Pradhan hasn’t beaten up the students; the Home Minister has, and he should resign, and the Home Minister reports to the PM, who should also resign.
This is bigger than education. This is young people saying we have no future in India. There is nothing wrong with this. And instead of saying, okay, we are going to improve the education system, we will work to fix the testing system. I…
The point is that this is no way to treat young people of this country. They don’t have any opportunities. All the doors are closed. Only one door is open – competitive exams. And that door is also destroyed. These students are not just…
Whatever andolan (protest) is taking place on this issue anywhere, the Congress and the Opposition will support it.
The students are demanding the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan. He has failed as Education Minister. He is incapable of running this system.
What exactly have these students done? Thousands of them are protesting peacefully. They are only asking for what this country owes them — a fair education system.
We felt that if the youth are on the streets, the Opposition should be too.
We are 100 per cent in agreement with students. There have to be some consequences.
This is pure theft from these families, and after you steal from them, you tell them the paper is leaked.
Every month lakhs of students are told that all the stress you went through, you will have to undergo it again…
The question is why is this happening to our students… What have they done… to have security forces aiming weapons at them, to be beaten up, … They are protesting peacefully, asking for what this country owes them. They are simply asking…
The protesting students are not terrorists and are only asking for an education system that is functional and fair.
And we go to stand with the students who lie injured today — beaten for peacefully demanding justice and accountability. India’s students are not alone. The entire Opposition stands with them and their demands.
Right now, MPs and leaders of the INDIA bloc are peacefully heading to Gandhi Smriti… We go to remember the students we lost…





