India, Aug. 2 -- Cousins Uddhav and Raj Thackeray on Saturday separately lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his video "forgiving" Gen Z protestors for using abusive language during the NEET paper leak protests.

Both demanded that Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah apologise to the protesters who faced brutal police action and the families that lost their children after the NEET paper leak. They also reminded Modi that it was his blind followers who had pioneered the use of filthy language in the public discourse.

Raj was addressing his party's student wing, Maharashtra Navnirman Vidyarthi Sena, on its 20th anniversary, while Uddhav was speaking at Shiv Sena Bhavan to his party office bearers.

Raj said that while he agreed t...