Amit Shah’s silence on police brutality against students is his confession: Gandhi

NEW DELHI, August 12, 2026: Stepping up his attack on Union Home Minister Amit Shah for avoiding Parliament all these days during the Monsoon Session, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that his (Shah’s) silence is his confession.

Noting that Shah remained absent from the Parliament for around 20 days, he said, “The most important thing to understand is that he has disappeared for 20 days. He was sitting in his chamber here, cars used to come and go… 30 cars around Amit Shah.”

Talking to reporters outside Parliament here today, Gandhi said, "We are interested in one simple thing. When I say ‘we’, I mean the younger generation of this country - who shot those students, who gave the order to shoot those students, who blinded one of the students, who shot one of the students in the ear, who gave the order to beat the students with lathis and nails, who gave that order?  That order was implemented by the Home Ministry."

"Did Amit Shah give the order to shoot our children or did he not? If he did, he should resign because he is culpable; and if he did not, he should resign because he is incompetent," Gandhi said, adding that in both the cases, he needs to resign.

Reiterating that Shah’s balloon had burst, he said, his (Shah’s) call for having a discussion on students’ protests was a last-minute effort to refill the gas in his already deflated balloon.

"The balloon has deflated and at the last-minute, he is trying to fill the gas again but the balloon has burst. Amit Shah has no courage; the Home Minister of India has no courage. He cannot come to the House," he asserted.

Referring to his remarks at an earlier press conference with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, he said, "Kharge ji and myself did a press conference, and the rest of the Opposition has made it clear that we are not interested in listening to Mr. Amit Shah's imagination. We are not interested in him giving us a lecture, or a discussion."

Responding to a question on the students’ protests in Jharkhand, he said, "I have said clearly in my press conference that we do not appreciate any violence against our students. I am not silent, I am saying it openly".