"What was the need to use tear gas on those students, to lathicharge them, and to use water cannons?," says Priyanka Gandhi

Anti-paper leak bill debate in Parliament: 

Speaking in the Lok Sabha, 

Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi says, 

"What was the need to use tear gas on those students, to lathicharge them, and to use water cannons against them? 

"What was the need to humiliate those young women, tear their clothes, and treat them in such a brutal and inhuman manner? What was the need to use pellet guns and AK-47s against the youth of this country? 

"Were they terrorists?...Yes, the Congress is asking this... Answer us... The Congress is asking; we want answers. Who will answer? 

Will the Home Minister answer? Who gave the order? 

"Who gave the order to use pellet guns? Through you, Honourable Speaker, I ask: who gave that order? Did the Prime Minister give it? Did the Home Minister give it? Will they answer?..."  

Priyanka Gandhi says, ".... the Education Minister (Dharmendra Pradhan) resigned under shameful circumstances, and yesterday at Makar Dwar, my colleagues from the ruling party welcomed him in Parliament by raising slogans of 'Zindabad' as if a superstar had arrived. 

Look at the irony, Honourable Speaker: while the former Education Minister was being honoured and welcomed with a crown, a family in Maharashtra was mourning the suicide of their daughter, who was a victim of the paper leak. 

What message has your government sent to the crores of students across the country? What are you proud of? What is this arrogance? Where there should have been shame, there is instead celebration and applause. 

On one side, there is grief and mourning; on the other, you are presenting someone with garlands. How can anyone trust you?"