India, July 14 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has not been seen, neither at Delhi's Jantar Mantar in support of Cockroach Janta Party's protest against exam irregularities, nor in Wayanad where a landslide last week claimed at least eight lives.

While Rahul has vehemently criticised the BJP government over its handling of NEET exam irregularities and even interacted withe students in Kota, India's entrance exam coaching hub, in recent weeks, his immediate physical absence from the CJP protest in Delhi has raised questions, with activist Sonam Wangchuk, who is on a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, saying that it will be the Opposition parties' "pettiness" if they do not participate in the youth-led protests.

Wangchuk, in an interview wit...