Ahilyanagar, July 23 -- Social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday asserted that no issue can be resolved through violence, backing the students' demand for Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over the NEET paper leak controversy, and termed the police lathi charge on protesters in Delhi as "wrong."

A day after writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging the Centre to engage in dialogue with protesting students instead of suppressing dissent, the veteran social activist reiterated that non-violence was the only way to resolve public issues.

"I had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that any issue can be resolved through non-violence. Engaging in violence will not solve any problem; violence will only aggravate...