Amit Shah ‘culpable or incompetent’, sack him for crackdown on students: Rahul Gandhi

4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jul 29, 2026 08:07 PM IST LoP in Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)Questioning the use of pellet guns against students protesting the alleged NEET paper leak, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi demanded that Home Minister Amit Shah be sacked over the police crackdown. Gandhi said Shah was either “culpable or incompetent” in the police response against protesters during the Parliament march on July 22. Either Shah ordered that students be shot with pellet guns and beaten with lathis with nails or he was unaware: “either way, he has to go,” the Congress leader added. Earlier in the day, the remarks of Gandhi, who’s the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, were expunged. Gandhi said he was asked to apologise a