BJP leaders, allies urge Centre to treat youth protests with empathy
“It is painful to see young students from different parts of the country assembled for days on the streets of New Delhi. Their anxieties and concerns regarding the examination system are genuine and must be handled with empathy and a desire to find a lasting solution,” he posted. He added it was “very painful to see that even young girls were brutally mishandled”, a course of action that would only alienate a large section of the population from the “national goal of Viksit Bharat”.
- ▪“It is painful to see young students from different parts of the country assembled for days on the streets of New Delhi.
- ▪Their anxieties and concerns regarding the examination system are genuine and must be handled with empathy and a desire to find a lasting solution,” he posted.
- ▪He added it was “very painful to see that even young girls were brutally mishandled”, a course of action that would only alienate a large section of the population from the “national goal of Viksit Bharat”.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of setting up fast-track courts to deal with paper leak cases, in the first such outreach to young protesters at Jantar Mantar, may be an attempt to focus on what first triggered the protests, but sections of the BJP and its allies in the National Democratic Alliance feel the issue has become a lightning rod for a host of grievances of the younger generation.Also read: Jantar Mantar protest updates on July 23Murli Manohar Joshi, who was Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, on Thursday said on X that protesting students should be dealt with sensitively and with empathy, and decried the brutal handling of protesters by law enforcement agencies.
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