Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah of trying to "threaten Gen Z into silence," alleging that the government first used force against student protesters and is now filing FIRs against them and taking down their social media accounts.
"PM Modi and Amit Shah, you cannot threaten Gen Z into silence. First you broke their bones. Now you are filing FIRs and taking down their accounts," the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said in a post on X.
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"You are India's past. Be careful about how you treat India's future," the former Congress president added.
The remarks came a day after PM Modi said comprehensive reforms were needed in the education system, both at the Centre and in the states, to tackle the problem of paper leaks, warning that there would be "no mercy" for gangs "playing with the future of children."
