PM wants the country’s youth to keep making reels and frying pakoras, says Rahul Gandhi

Taking a excavation at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, connected Sunday (June 7, 2026), posted a video of his enactment with Sarthak Siddhant, the 18-year-old student who flagged the irregularities successful the tendering process to prime a vendor for the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) On Screen Marking System (OSM), and said that the PM wanted the country’s younker to support “making reels and frying pakoras”.

“Mr. Sarthak is 18 years old, yet successful presumption of mindset, courage, and principles, helium is 2nd to none,” Mr. Gandhi said successful a station successful Hindi, accompanying the video, connected societal media level X. Naming ethical hacker Nisarg Adhikari, who besides exposed the vulnerabilities successful the CBSE’s OSM portal, Mr. Gandhi said that the duo had accomplished what the country’s large media houses and investigative journalists could not. “They exposed the collusion betwixt CBSE and COEMPT [edtech company] to the nation,” helium said. He lauded Mr. Sidhant for being “faster and sharper” than the Central Bureau of Investigation, and said this triumph for the younker was, successful the existent sense, a decision for the government.

“Mr. Modi ji wants our younker to support making reels and frying pakoras, without asking questions oregon opening their eyes. But these young men did inquire questions, and they recovered the answers, too. This is India’s existent younker power, inquisitive, aware, and informed. And remember, the country’s aboriginal volition not beryllium led astray,” the Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha said.

The eight-minute-long video is from Mr. Gandhi’s gathering with Mr. Sidhant and his household past week. The video opens with Mr. Gandhi asking the young antheral whether helium believes helium had done “a bully thing” oregon “a atrocious thing”. Mr. Sidhant, who earlier made a presumption to the Parliamentary Standing Committee connected Education, responded that helium did what a “concerned citizen” should do, explaining however Mr. Adhikari and helium had investigated the issue.