Aaditya Thackeray dubs BJP regime ‘anti-India’ over Delhi police action on student protesters

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray criticized the BJP-led Central government as "anti-India" following police action against youth protesters in Delhi. He demanded Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation and supported demands raised by Sonam Wangchuk and Abhijit Dipke

Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Monday dubbed the BJP-led regime at the Centre “anti-India” for cracking down on protestors in New Delhi.

In a post on X, Thackeray said when the world sees images of the police brutality by the regime against a peaceful protest march, it will realise that India is no longer a democracy but captured by a regime.

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“When a brutal regime points guns towards young Indians who are asking for a better education system, you know that the regime is anti- India,” he said.

When the world sees reports of the regime refusing to acknowledge systemic failures in education, and instead of asking a minister to interact with young Indians, it will realise that the government has transformed into a dictatorship, he said.

The former Maharashtra minister said ironically, when the BJP protested with social activist Anna Hazare more than a decade ago, the Congress government at least had deployed senior ministers for talks. It was not so brutal and vindictive, Thackeray added.

“I know this is a far shot, but does nobody in the ruling regime have interest in education? Do they not have friends/ family stuck in this rotten system?

“Change the system and change the incompetent minister Pradhan who couldn’t manage his department! That is all that @Wangchuk66 and @abhijeet_dipke and all of us as young Indians are asking for!” Thackeray said.