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Police Detain Congress Party Leader Rahul Gandhi as Student-Led Anti-Gov’t Protests Continue in India

HeadlineJul 22, 2026

In India, police have detained Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the country’s largest opposition party, the Congress party, as student-led protests against the government continue. Gandhi and other opposition leaders were arrested during a sit-in outside right-wing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence on Tuesday. Demonstrators were condemning the brutal crackdown on student protesters. This is a lawmaker with the opposition Congress party who spoke through a police van’s window after being arrested.

K. Suresh: “We are protesting in front of the prime minister’s office, prime minister’s residence, because our students were brutally attacked. And that’s our students very cruelly attacked yesterday by Delhi police. Honorable prime minister is not saying anything. Honorable home minister is not making any statement. So hundreds of students, they are in the hospital.”

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