Modi or Shah have no guts
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Monday turned up heat amid Parliament showdown as he restated three demands, which he termed as “non-negotiables” to break the Parliament deadlock. In his “unnegotiable list of demands”, the Congress leader reiterated that the Union Home Minister Amit Shah must tell Parliament who ordered firing against students during NEET paper leak protest.
Rahul Gandhi said, apart from Shah’s statement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi should apologise for what happened and he called for an accountability over the donation theft in Ayodhya Ram Mandir.
“The question was always that Amit Shah has to make it clear who authorised the shooting of our youngsters in Delhi. Pellet guns were fired and students were beaten with lathis with nails on them.
He should come clean. Did he order it or did he not order it? If he ordered it, he is guilty of getting our children shot. And if he didn’t know about it happening, he’s incompetent. Either way, he should go. This was the discussion,” Rahul Gandhi said in a presser.
The Congress leader further said: “Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says, “The question was never that Amit Shah is going to come and give a speech on some general topics in Parliament. Second, the Prime Minister apologises for what has happened. And third was the issue of the Ram temple theft. People very close to the Prime Minister have stolen from the Ram Mandir. These are the three issues.”
“For 15 days, neither Prime Minister nor Home Minister had courage to come to Parliament, guts to own up to what they have done,” the Congress leader said.
Rahul Gandhi’s remarks come hours after Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said that Home Minister Amit Shah was prepared to respond in Parliament on the student protest crackdown. Rijiju, however, asked members not to disrupt the proceedings when the statement is made. “The offer made by the government is very clear that it is ready to have a full and detailed discussion on students’ movement and activities related to it,” Rijiju said.