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New Delhi, Aug 5 (PTI) Opposition MPs took out a protest march in Parliament House complex on Wednesday, demanding Home Minister Amit Shah's statement on alleged police excesses on students, discussion on "misappropriation" of Ram temple donations and statehood for Jammu and Kashmir. Carrying placards and raising slogans against the government, the Opposition MPs, including Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, marched from the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Prerna Sthal to Makar Dwar. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge also participated in the protest and demanded accountability from the government. Taking a swipe at Shah, Kharge asked why hasn't he been coming to the House. "They are disrespecting Parliament. It has been so many days but they don't want to step inside the House. What is the issue in coming to the House and giving a statement?" Kharge told reporters. Are they deaf and dumb, he asked. The MPs carried placards slamming the government and demanded a statement by Shah in both Houses of Parliament on the alleged "atrocities" committed by police and other forces on students during protests over the paper leak issue last month. Several MPs also raised the issue of "misappropriation" of donations at the Ram temple in Ayodhya. Many MPs, including those from Jammu and Kashmir, carried placards, demanding statehood for Jammu and Kashmir. Wednesday marks the seventh anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 and J-K being turned into a Union Territory. The MPs raised slogans such as 'chhanda chor, gaddi chor', 'Amit Shah jawaab do' and 'chanda chor kahan milenge, BJP ke daftar mein'. The MPs also kept donation boxes in front of Makar Dwar steps to symbolise the alleged theft of donations at the Ram temple and lined up around them to raise slogans against the government. Some MPs also put cash in the box to symbolise the donations made and "theft" that took place later. Besides Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, SP's Dimple Yadav and Dharmendra Yadav, TMC's Sagarika Ghose and Mahua Moitra, NCP (SP) Supriya Sule, JMM's Mahua Maji, RSP's NK Premchandran, among others, participated in the protest. While marching, the protesting MPs lined up behind a big banner that read 'Amit Shah jawaab do'. Priyanka Gandhi also lashed out at the government and sought accountability over the alleged police excesses against students. "Those holding high offices have a responsibility towards the people. It is not a dictatorship or a 'raj darbar'. So if something has happened, pellet guns have been fired on students, they have been tear-gassed and lathicharged, somebody would have ordered it. They should take responsibility, that has been the tradition of the country," Priyanka Gandhi said. The INDIA bloc has vowed to corner the government on issues of alleged theft of donations at the Ram temple and the use of "brutal force" against students during their protests last week. PTI ASK DV DV

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New Delhi, Aug 5 (PTI) Opposition MPs took out a protest march in Parliament House complex on Wednesday, demanding Home Minister Amit Shah's statement on allege

New Delhi, Aug 5 (PTI) In a no-holds-barred attack on Home Minister Amit Shah, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that the BJP leader was responsible for the violence against protesting youngsters and does not have the courage to explain in Parliament what happened with the students. The leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha made the remarks after meeting a group of students who had protested last month seeking then Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over the paper leaks issue and faced alleged police excesses on July 20. "I just met young protesters from various states and had a discussion. I want to thank them and I am proud of thousands of students like them as they fought for the Constitution, the education system and the future of India," Gandhi told reporters outside former Congress president Sonia Gandhi's 10, Janpath residence. "They mentioned to me how they were assaulted, beaten and threatened... They have defended the Constitution, protected the idea of India and the future of India," Gandhi said, flanked by the students. He further said that complaining about the education system, which is flawed, collapsing and useless, is not a crime. "If anything, the system needs to be changed, it needs to be corrected and that is all they (the students) were asking for. They were not indulging in violence, they were not being aggressive or nasty. They were beaten, assaulted and threatened," Gandhi alleged. "Forcing them, sending 'goondas' and forcibly taking their apology, taking apology from a 15-year-old and accepting that apology, is nonsense and unacceptable to us," he said. Gandhi called for an education system that works, exam leaks to stop and the future to be respected and protected. Attacking Shah, Gandhi alleged that the person who is responsible for this violence is the home minister. "The person who had pellet gun fired at this young lady, the person who had a pellet gun fired at that young man whom I brought before the press a few days ago, the person who has turned the police force against this young lady, is Amit Shah and he is the home minister of India," Gandhi said. "He (Shah) does not have the decency to come to Parliament. He does not have the decency or the courage to comment on what has happened. "There are two possibilities -- he did not know that violence was carried out on children, in which case he is incompetent; or he ordered that the pellet gun be fired and violence unleashed against youngsters, which means he is culpable. Either way, he is responsible," the former Congress chief said. PTI ASK KSS KSS