'Delhi cops told us we are traitors': Jantar Mantar protesters meet Rahul Gandhi
Here's the latest protest news from across India:
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Sunday lauded the “courage and resilience” of the students who protested at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar last month, saying “their voices cannot be silenced”.
Adding to this, Chaos at Jantar Mantar during the protests last month. (PTI) In a post on X, the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha shared a video of him meeting a group of students who were allegedly lathi-charged during the July 20 crackdown when protests against the NEET-UG paper leak was underway.
Meanwhile, “The courage and resilience with which India's youth have stood firm against Modi ji's violent regime, demanding accountability, is commendable. They raised their voices with peace, love, and humor,” he wrote on the micro-blogging site in Hindi.
Notably, “I am proud of every single young person—especially the girls who faced the BJP goons' misbehavior, verbal abuse, and violence, even being forced to apologize to the Prime Minister. But now their voices cannot be silenced,” he added.
As per the latest buzz, In the video, Gandhi is seen interacting with around six students over the police action.
In further updates, “The policemen kept saying ‘all of you are traitors,” one of the students shared. “The cops kept hitting me on my knee, they hit me at least seven times. I told them to hit me on my back instead but they did not listen,” the student added.
On top of that, Another female student shared she saw a pellet being fired at her during the mayhem, leaving her ear injured. “My ear lobe was cut and hanging. There was a lot of bleeding. I underwent a two-hour surgery but was discharged just 15 minutes later. I needed some rest but they asked me to leave,” she shared.
HT earlier reported that five people – Sheikh Irshad Mansuri, a 25-year-old employee with a private firm, Nootan Toppo, a 32-year-old woman from Gurugram, a 28-year-old reporter, Prashant Singh, a 25-year-old Bihar resident, and 19-year-old Sahil Lochab, a student aspiring to join the police force – alleged (in Lochab’s case the allegations were made by the family) that they were hit with pellets on July 20.
Source: Hindustan Times