'Attention-seeking': Nadda says Rahul's sit-in bid to divert attention from Vande Mataram row

Edited by: Rohitashwa Ranjan / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Aug 21, 2026, 15:57 IST

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Nadda said that the Supreme Court has already constituted a 5-member panel to probe the alleged use of excessive force by police on students

NEW DELHI: Union minister JP Nadda on Friday slammed leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for staging a sit-in outside Sansad Marg police station, claiming that the protest was a symbol of the Congress leader's "hunger for media attention."

Rohitashwa Ranjan is a digital journalist with The Times of India, where he decodes Indian politics as a carefully staged production with scripts, subtext and everything behind. His stories track elections, party dynamics and the things that often are buried beneath the headlines. When not parsing vote shares or alliances, he is usually reading between the lines, where the real story tends to reside.