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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi<\/a> Wednesday demanded that home minister Amit Shah<\/a> be sacked from the govt and a Supreme Court monitored probe be ordered into the use of lethal force against young protesters — raising the stakes in the battle of wits with the Modi govt over the police crackdown on students.Rahul said Shah either directly ordered the use of pellet guns, shock batons, lathicharge and tear gas on students which makes him \u201cculpable\u201d of brutalisation of youngsters, or he did not know what the police was doing which makes him \u201cincompetent\u201d. \u201cIn either case, he has to go,\u201d he said, advising PM Narendra Modi to sack the senior minister.He alleged the students are still being threatened, with face recognition and Bajrang Dal being used to scare them. \u201cThese are our children and the govt has no business threatening them or beating them. They have not committed any crime. They should not be punished,\u201d he said.The leader of opposition said the demand for Shah\u2019s sacking was not proforma, raising the possibility of the confrontation of last week resuming after the opposition joined the proceedings to discuss the bill on \u201cunfair means\u201d for two days. Said he, \u201cShah is responsible and we are not going to let him get away with it.\u201dThe renewed aggression from Rahul came at a press conference that he addressed after he could not complete his heavily interrupted speech in Lok Sabha following a clash with the BJP benches over his remarks about Shah. After brief adjournments over an \u201cunparliamentary\u201d word, the BJP blocked him when he directly linked Shah to police crackdown. While his remarks were expunged, the BJP benches led by parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju insisted that he tell the source of his claim or apologise.According to Rahul, he was told that he would have to apologise if he wanted to complete his speech, but he replied that he would never apologise to BJP or RSS.With Shah\u2019s photograph on the big screen at the AICC headquarters, Rahul said, \u201cEvery child beaten by police should know that this is the man who is responsible for what happened. He takes orders from the prime minister, but he is the man who thrashed you and humiliated you.\u201d He slammed Shah for not coming to the Lok Sabha, which shows that he is \u201cguilty\u201d.At the same time, Rahul said he is proud of students who protested and \u201cthey had the courage that their parents did not have\u201d to stand up to the BJP.He said Shah was fully aware of the police action, and he was repeatedly calling minister Jitendra Singh when the latter came to meet him (during dharna outside PM residence).He said the opposition will ensure justice for students one day, as cops responsible for use of pellet guns and batons are identified in videos and photos.In LS, Rahul riled the BJP by narrating that a student told him about three categories of people \u2013 \u201cstudents\u201d who accept they don’t know everything; those who think they know everything and pretend to be God, and \u201candh bhakts\u201d who believe the second category is God.<\/p>\n Share your thoughts in the comments<\/p>\n<\/div>\n