Rahul targets Centre over "shocking attack" on protesters

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today targeted the Modi government over the "shocking attack" on students protesting against Hyderabad research scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide outside RSS office in Delhi.
He insisted the demonstrators were "brutally" beaten as they were "protesting against the RSS".
"Shocking attack on students. Instead of listening to them, now the Modi govt is brutally beating them up for protesting against the RSS!", the Congress leader tweeted.
Rahul's tweet came as the Delhi Police faced criticism following emergence of a video in which its personnel were seen thrashing protesters and dragging female activists by their hair outside the RSS office here during a demonstration against dalit student Vemula's suicide.

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At the Congress' official briefing, party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said there was a "clear pattern and paradigm of autocratic behavior bordering on fascism" in the incident.
"There is a brutal assault on silent protesters of various dalit organisations exercising free speech rights merely because the venue of the protest happens to be near or at the RSS Headquarters," he said.