New Delhi, July 24 -- Amid the ongoing protests over the NEET paper controversy, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi has said that the Central governemnt has met peaceful student protests with "cowardice and wanton cruelty," and has treated the country's youth "as enemies of the nation" rather than "as inheritors of the future."

In an editorial opinion writen in The Hindu, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi urged the Centre to halt the police crackdown, stating that "these are our sons and daughters, our young men and women.

The piece singles out the July 20 parliament march as "a day of infamy" when Delhi Police and Central Armed Police Forces allegedly used lathicharges and tear gas against protest...