[Pune]Rahul Gandhi Lends Open Support To Agitating Students In FTII And Targets RSS .He visited FTII And assured students that he would raise their voice in Parliament.
Lending his support to students agitating at the Film and Television Institute here against appointment of Gajendra [Yudhisthir]Chauhan, Congress VP Rahul Gandhi today said the RSS is “undermining” the institution’s stature by promoting “mediocrity”.
Interacting with the students, the Congress Vice President asked why the “little school” was “disturbing” the government’s peace of mind and flayed the RSS, saying it wants to promote its idea and would brand the protesting students as “anti-national”.
“RSS and its ideologues are promoting mediocre people in the system
Rahul assured the students that he would raise their voice in Parliament.
“RSS wants to promote their idea. They will call you anti-national, anti-Hindu. They are scared of you. That is the nature of a bully,” he said.
As Gandhi visited the prestigious institution, BJP workers raised slogans outside.
FTII students have been on strike for the past 50 days objecting to appointment of Film+TV actor Chauhan as institution’s chairman.
Gandhi also used the platform to draw comparisons between the Congress and the BJP regime saying, “In Congress whenever there is an issue, it is discussed…some agree some don’t.
But in BJP if the Prime Minister has decided, no one can say anything”.
Earlier this month, the students body had written to leaders from various political parties requesting them to intervene and urge the government to revoke the appointments of ‘unfit’ people and to set up a transparent procedure for future appointments. .