Congress ministers marched against police lathi-charge. Their own police did the same thing.
Left student unions shut down Hyderabad demanding Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over the NEET paper leak — while the Congress government's own police lathi-charged marchers headed to Lok Bhavan for the same cause.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Student unions — SFI, AISF, NSUI, PDSU, AIFDS, AIPSU and AISB — blocked traffic from Narayanaguda X Roads to Y-junction on Friday, and a bandh call shut several educational institutions, according to Telangana Today. Their demands: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over repeated NEET UG paper-leak failures, the abolition of the National Testing Agency, and an inquiry into a police lathi-charge on students at Delhi's Jantar Mantar. SFI state secretary T Nagaraju also demanded Rs 1 crore ex-gratia for students the organisations say died by suicide over the leak — a toll asserted by the protesting unions, not independently verified.
The Delhi incident itself is contested: Delhi Police says no violence or detentions occurred at Jantar Mantar and the protest was handled "professionally", while wire reports describe police using lathis and tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Meanwhile in Hyderabad, students marching towards Lok Bhavan demanding the same resignations were themselves lathi-charged by Telangana police — under a Congress government whose ministers led a torchlight rally days earlier condemning exactly that conduct in Delhi.