00:00Now it's worth pointing out that in Jharkhand BJP is the opposition.
00:05They are now putting your support behind the Cockroach Janta Party and its protests,
00:10which is a bit of a change in position nationally in Delhi, where BJP is government.
00:14It opposed the Cockroach Janta Party.
00:18So can you explain this political contortion to us?
00:24Well, there is no controversy.
00:26There is no second thought about what is going on in Jharkhand.
00:31It is absolutely what we saw, the reverse picture, what we saw in Delhi in Jantar Mantar.
00:37In Jantar Mantar, Paul, I could vouch on this, that there were hardly any student protesters.
00:44These Cockroaches whose average age is just beyond 30, around 30, at least they couldn't be Gen Z.
00:52They couldn't be the representatives of Gen Z.
00:55They had their own agenda set.
00:58Their agenda was to just destabilize or try to destabilize the Bharti Janta Party ruling government, ruling party,
01:07which is why they created druckus.
01:10The police was extremely, in Delhi we saw the police was extremely patient with them,
01:16but we saw the kind of slogans heard at the Honourable Prime Minister.
01:21People wished him death, people wished him harm, and this kind of ruckus was created in Delhi.
01:29Now let's come to Jharkhand.
01:31Jharkhand, we have seen these protesters, they have been protesting since long.
01:36No national media, I would like to thank Bloomberg that you have finally brought up this issue.
01:42So these people, they were protesting on their own for their own rights.
01:46But very strangely and hypocritically, the Cockroaches, they did not make any time to visit them.
01:54We are asking the Cockroaches Janta Party founder, Abhijit Dipke, there are other people,
02:00to please bring out some time, stop partying and come and sit with these students, because even they are students.
02:09So one rule applies to a BJP-ruled government, and the other rule, or you prefer to stay mute,
02:17mute spectator when these students are beaten up brutally.
02:22We have seen they have been beaten up, they are injured, they are gravely injured.
02:28So why is this hypocrisy?
02:30And also I'd like to add, Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the opposition, why isn't he here?
02:37Just because this is your coalition government?
02:41Just because it is your coalition government in Keral, you chose not to visit?
02:47Yes, Kaya.
02:48Kaya, we only have limited time, so I don't want you to deliver a manifesto here.
02:52But you did mention that some of the protesters in Delhi, you say, they were too old to be students.
02:58If that's the case, why did the education minister resign?
03:05Exactly so.
03:06The education minister, he took all the responsibilities and he resigned.
03:12What about Jharkhand, education minister?
03:16He doesn't even know the full form of JPSS.
03:18If the protesters weren't students, why did the education minister resign?
03:23Why didn't the education minister just get up and say these people aren't students?
03:29That's because he thought he took the responsibility.
03:33We cannot, we did not shy away from the fact that there has been a problem in the newspaper.
03:38And I will tell you, and I'm not, Paul, let me be very clear with this.
03:43I am not reading out any manifesto.
03:45I am stating the facts.
03:47And the facts remain that the Cockroach Janta Party is just carrying out with their own agenda.
03:53They don't have anything to do with the students or their betterment.
03:57Had it been, they could have stood beside the students in Punjab,
04:01where even the students were beaten up mercilessly.
04:04They could have stood beside the students in Keral.
04:06They could have stood beside the students in Karnataka.
04:09And most importantly, in Jharkhand.
04:12But they chose to remain a mute spectator.
04:15They chose to remain silent over this issue, which exposes their agenda even more clearly.
04:22Well, does it expose your agenda as well?
04:24Because you're standing by the students in Jharkhand.
04:28And the casual observer might think the only reason would be is because you're the opposition party there.
04:33Why is this not political expediency?
04:38No, it's not.
04:39The reason being, in the national issue, in the NEET issue, in the issue where Dharmendra Pradhan, the Honorable Education
04:46Minister, resigned.
04:47The second NEET exam was taken, conducted in a record time.
04:54Point number one.
04:55Point number two, those who were guilty, those who were the mastermind, they were arrested in record time.
05:02And strict, there has been a bill passed.
05:05And can you imagine the hypocrisy in the parliament?
05:07The opposition, who wanted the students, they get justice.
05:13They opposed the bill.
05:14Because the new bill, which states harshest punishment for those who are the mastermind for any kind of paper leak,
05:23anywhere in the country, they demand, they deserve the harshest punishment.
05:28And the opposition, who were out on the streets, they protested inside the parliament.
05:32So their agenda, their hypocrisy has been exposed.
05:37OK, we've only got about a minute left.
05:39I always thought hypocrisy was an unparliamentary word.
05:42But never mind.
05:43And why are student protesters still facing harassment, then, if the prime minister's forgiven them?
05:50The students are not facing any kind of persecution.
05:55It is only those people who hurled abusers, those people who are not even the students,
06:02those people who were present, who wanted abrogation of 370 to be stopped,
06:08and the old rules to be back in Jammu and Kashmir,
06:12who wanted the country to be divided into pieces,
06:15and those people who are the separatists.
06:20I believe that personalism, I believe that strict actions should be taken against them.
06:25Having said that, no student, and I repeat all, no students are being...
06:30OK, we're out of time, unfortunately, but thank you so much for joining us.
06:33That is BJP Bengal spokesperson, Kaya Ghosh, there.
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