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Gandhi tells Rijiju: Don't lie to country's children over protest

Gandhi tells Rijiju: Don't lie to country's children over protest
Students Have Eyes Too: Rahul Gandhi On Minister's "No Serious Injuries" Claim · NDTV

Many students gathered at a place in Delhi called Jantar Mantar to protest.

Police officers also came to the protest.

A government minister named Kiren Rijiju said the police did a good job and that not one person was hurt, nobody broke a bone, and nobody needed to go to the hospital.

A leader named Rahul Gandhi from the Congress party said that is not true.

He said peaceful students were hit with pellet guns and sticks that had nails in them, and he said one child lost an eye and a girl hurt her ear.

Gandhi said he met some of the injured children and that videos of what happened were seen by people all over the country.

He told the government not to lie to the children of the country.

Rijiju said the police only acted after protesters tried to march towards Parliament, and he said nobody died.

The two leaders see the same event very differently, which shows how people can disagree about what happened.

Key facts

Protest location
Jantar Mantar, Delhi, India
Protest demand
Resignation of then Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan
Protest scale
Thousands of participants
Rijiju's claim
Not a single person harmed; no broken bones or hospitalisation; no lathi used
Gandhi's counterclaim
Pellet guns and nail-studded lathis used; one child lost an eye, a girl's ear injured
Deaths
None reported
Rijiju's interview
Given to news agency ANI
Gandhi's platform
Social media platform X

Quotes

Rahul Gandhi

Leader of the Indian National Congress

““Don’t lie to the country’s children,” Gandhi said, asserting that they had both “eyes and memory.””
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“"Don't lie to the children of this country. They have eyes and memories too."”
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