Making silly videos: Priyanka Gandhi slams PM Modi over handling of NEET paper leak protests

Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologize to students protesting NEET irregularities over alleged police action. Criticizing the PM's social media activity during the crisis, she urged him to show leadership and sack the responsible minister

Wayanad (Kerala): Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanding that he apologise to the students protesting in New Delhi against alleged irregularities in the NEET exam for the “brutalities” they suffered at the hands of the police.

Vadra said that instead of apologising, the PM was “busy making silly videos,” thanking people for making more friends on Instagram. “It is ridiculous at this time. It is ridiculous. He is responsible for young children being out on the streets all over India. He is responsible for them being shot with pellet guns as if they’re terrorists,” she told reporters here.

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“He (PM Modi) is responsible,” she reiterated, adding that he has to answer to the nation. “He has to show himself in Parliament. He has to make the change that the students are asking for,” she said.

She said that the PM’s assurance of a stronger law was not enough, as the system had broken down. “The only thing that can be done is to step outside the system. That means the PM has to show guts, he has to show courage, he has to show responsibility, and he has to show leadership,” Vadra said.

“Leadership means that if his minister is responsible and 152 papers have leaked under his nose, he sacks that minister – that is leadership,” she said. “There is no leadership coming from Narendra Modi – all that is coming is feeble excuses and force,” the Congress MP alleged.