Rahul Gandhi takes jibe at Centre, says 'Arrests will be made for seeking rights in New India'

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi lashed out at the government on Sunday over the issue of unemployment and the government's crackdown on protesting youths, saying"arrests will be made for seeking rights in New India."

Gandhi began his most recent rant on the government's handling of jobs by tweeting a video of some students being dragged away by the police in an Uttar Pradesh Roadways bus.

"Don't ask questions. Don't raise your voice. Don't protest peacefully. Arrests will be made for seeking rights in New India. By making the youth unemployed, by shattering the hopes of crores of families, this dictatorial government is destroying the future of the country," Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.

सवाल मत पूछो
आवाज़ मत उठाओ
शांतिपूर्ण प्रदर्शन मत करो
नए भारत में हक मांगने पर होगी गिरफ़्तारी

युवाओं को बेरोज़गार बना कर, करोड़ों परिवारों की आस तोड़ कर, देश का भविष्य उजाड़ रही है ये तानाशाह सरकार। pic.twitter.com/7QKk8XnlMi

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) July 17, 2022

The video carries a caption: "What is the offense of SSCGD 2018 aspirants, seeking justice."

One of the female aspirants in the video says they have not eaten anything since morning. "Not even a drop of water... We have been forcibly made to sit in four buses and are being taken to separate places. We don't know where," she says. 

"The daughters of the country are being treated in such a way as if we don't belong to the country. The government says 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao', but if that happened then our daughters would not be dying here... We had started from Nagpur and reached Agra in the last 45 days, facing a lot of difficulties. 

The government has sent us to the same place where we started. We urge the government not to do injustice to us," she said.