New Delhi, July 24:
Several leaders of the Congress and INDIA bloc parties on Thursday paid homage to all those students who took their lives due to paper leaks, and said they stood strongly behind the agitating students and their demands.
The opposition leaders assembled at the residence of Rahul Gandhi on 5, Sunehri Bagh Road, and reiterated their full support for the demands of the protesting students. Rahul Gandhi then led them to the Gandhi Smriti on a bus.
On reaching there, Gandhi and the opposition MPs paid homage to the departed students with folded hands, and later sang the national anthem. Gandhi carried a small copy of the Constitution with him while opposition MPs Mahua Majhi and Mahua Moitra were seen holding the national flag.
Some of the MPs also switched on torches on their mobile phones at the Gandhi Smriti. Sources said that Gandhi is learnt to have addressed the opposition MPs on how to up the ante on the government on the students’ issues.