Hitting back at Sonia Gandhi for her remark that the Modi government has "declared war on its own people", Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday, 16 December, said the Congress president was shedding "crocodile tears" for political gains.
She also questioned Congress’s record in defending students, asking was it not under former PM Indira Gandhi’s rule that the students of a central university in Delhi were sent to Tihar Jail.