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New Delhi: A day after youngsters who responded to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)’s Sansad Chalo March were met with brute force by the Delhi police, leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday (July 21) took the call for accountability to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s doorstep by staging a sit-in protest demanding his resignation.

From Gandhi, other Congress MPs and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s detention from outside Modi’s residence; to Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal’s visits to police stations to seek the release of protesters who had been detained; and to Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray’s visit to Jantar Mantar – the day saw high drama as the opposition took to the streets, demanding accountability from the government while expressing their solidarity with the protesters who were met with Delhi police’s heavy hand on Monday.

The Congress, which had stayed away from the CJP’s protest at Jantar Mantar until last week when it sent its leaders to meet the hunger-striking climate activist and educationist Sonam Wangchuk, sought to reclaim the opposition space and forge unity with other parties to rally behind the cause of the brutalised students.

However, chinks in the opposition’s armour showed as the AAP trained its guns on Gandhi, accusing him of acting on Modi’s behest.

CJP के धरने को कमजोर करने के लिए मोदी जी ने @RahulGandhi को अपने आवास पर धरने पर बिठा दिया। — Sanjay Singh AAP (@SanjayAzadSln) July 21, 2026

CJP के धरने को कमजोर करने के लिए मोदी जी ने @RahulGandhi को अपने आवास पर धरने पर बिठा दिया।

— Sanjay Singh AAP (@SanjayAzadSln) July 21, 2026

Tuesday saw parliament being adjourned repeatedly as the opposition demanded a discussion on the protest as well as the NEET paper leaks. Gandhi and other opposition leaders of the INDIA bloc, including the Left parties, Shiv Sena (UBT) and Samajwadi Party, met Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla demanding a discussion on the police action and on the NEET leaks.

But Gandhi alleged that Birla told the opposition members he would have to take the government’s “permission” for a discussion. Addressing reporters outside parliament, the LoP then turned the heat on Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah and demanded their resignations.

“Dharmendra Pradhan is an intermediary, absolutely he should resign. But Dharmendra Pradhan hasn’t beaten up these students. The home minister [Shah] has; he should resign. And the home minister reports to the prime minister, he should resign. What is going on?”........

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