Police briefly detained India’s main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister, Priyanka Gandhi, as they staged a protest outside the residence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Gandhi demanded on Tuesday that Prime Minister Modi step down over the police crackdown against student protests calling for reforms in the education system.
Modi must resign “for destroying the future of India’s youth”, the Congress Party leader said in a post on social media as he led a march with other lawmakers towards the prime minister’s residence in New Delhi.
“The government doesn’t want to take any accountability, nor does it want to have a debate on it in parliament,” said Gandhi, the leader of the opposition in the lower house.
Gandhi later staged a sit-in protest outside Modi’s residence, where cries of “we want justice” were interspersed with chants of “down with Modi”.
Hours later, Gandhi and other parliamentarians were bundled into a bus by police and taken away from the area.
Gandhi later shared pictures of himself being carried away by police, including one where he appeared to have some blood around his nose.
“This fight for justice for students will now not stop or be halted,” he said on X.
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