Chandigarh: Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Saturday hailed the resignation of the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan as the “victory of the youth of the country against a corrupt and an arrogant regime”.
Reacting to the resignation amid nationwide protests seeking accountability over exam irregularities, Warring said while the Union Minister had been forced to resign, Punjab Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains was still in office and he must also resign for the repeated paper leaks in Punjab.
Asserting that the fight will go on in Punjab, the Punjab Congress President said the Congress would hold both the state Minister and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to account for the paper leaks.
He also congratulated party leader Rahul Gandhi, who led from the front against the “authoritarian and arrogant government” that was otherwise refusing to budge.
He noted that the Union government was shaken the day Rahul Gandhi led the protest march right at the doorsteps of the Prime Minister’s residence.
He said that Rahul Gandhi had set a great example with standing by the students in the moment of their fight against a “dictatorial and an authoritarian regime”.
On Pradhan’s resignation, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra remarked that the youth of the country “cannot be silenced” by anybody.
Priyanka Gandhi said that she got a “little emotional” upon hearing the news.
“It is because, many times over the last 10 or 12 years, I have asked myself, ‘When are our young people going to wake up? Look at what is being done to our country.’ The RSS is filling the entire education system. Every post, every Vice-Chancellor, the ideology of our forefathers has been systematically broken down,” she added.
The Congress MP said: “Force has been used against young people, against anybody who raises their voice in protest. So today I am very happy that the youth of our country have spoken and nobody can ever dare to silence their voice.”
(IANS)
