System threatened by students as they ask questions: Rahul

The “system” running the country does not want students as they raise questions, but wants only andhbhakts (blind followers), Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said in an address to students on Saturday (September 19, 2026). The Congress refers to staunch BJP followers as andhbhakts.

Speaking at the fifth ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ student interaction programme in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, Mr. Gandhi alleged that a “system” had captured the country and was against students and the education system. He said the “system” was being controlled by a handful of powerful people, but students posed a danger to it as they raised questions.

Mr. Gandhi said he had held the ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ event in cities like Kota, Pune, Dehradun and Prayagraj, raising students’ issues such as paper leaks, institutional failure, infrastructural collapse and privatisation. “In Indore, we have decided that we will talk about the ‘system’ vs students today,” he said, addressing thousands of youth at Indore’s IDA ground.