Rahul Gandhi backs students protesting against Uttarakhand paper leak, calls BJP 'paper chor'

Extending his afloat enactment to students protesting against a caller insubstantial leak successful Uttarakhand, Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Friday (September 26, 2025) said unemployment is straight linked to "vote chori", and alleged that the different sanction of BJP is "paper chor".

In a station connected X, the Leader of Opposition successful Lok Sabha besides alleged that the BJP is not bothered astir jobs for the younker but astir remaining successful powerfulness done "vote chori" (vote theft) during elections.

"Today, BJP's different sanction is 'Paper Chor'! The repeated insubstantial leaks crossed the state person ruined the lives and dreams of millions of hardworking youth," helium said successful his station successful Hindi.

Gandhi said the caller insubstantial leak successful Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UKSSSC) graduate-level introspection is the latest example, wherever lakhs of younker toiled time and nighttime but BJP dashed each their hard enactment done theft.

"We person been continuously demanding that a beardown and transparent strategy beryllium created to halt insubstantial leaks. But the Modi authorities is turning a unsighted oculus to this, due to the fact that they are not acrophobic astir younker unemployment, but astir their ain power," Gandhi alleged.

Noting that unemployment is the biggest occupation facing the state today, which is straight linked to "vote chori", the Congress person alleged that "the 'paper chors' cognize that adjacent if the younker don't get jobs, they volition stay successful powerfulness by stealing votes during elections".

"The younker are connected the streets, raising the slogan 'Paper Chor, Gaddi Chhod' (paper thieves, permission the throne)," helium claimed.

Asserting that this is not conscionable a combat for jobs for the youth, Gandhi said it is simply a combat for justness and democracy.

"I basal firmly with each pupil and younker successful this combat for justice," helium said, utilizing the hashtag '#PaperChorGaddiChod'.

Mr. Gandhi had coined the word "vote chori" during his caller Voter Adhikar Rally successful poll-bound Bihar to item his allegation that polls had been "rigged" successful the country.

Mr. Gandhi has been accusing the BJP of indulging successful "vote chori" during elections, claiming that it sought to "illegally" delete and adhd votes successful "connivance" with the Election Commission, a complaint which some the ruling enactment and the canvass assemblage vehemently denied.

Amid the uproar caused by the leaking of 3 pages of a question insubstantial during a competitory introspection for assorted departments connected September 21, a ample fig of students, nether the banner of the Uttarakhand Berozgar Sangh, person enactment up tents connected the roadworthy extracurricular the Parade Ground successful Dehradun wherever they are sitting connected an indefinite strike.