PATNA, Oct. 12 -- Union minister of food processing industries Chirag Paswan on Sunday criticised his cabinet colleague Jitan Ram Manjhi, Union minister of micro, small and medium enterprises, for using disparaging language about young protesters, saying it was unjustified to portray India's youth as weak, misguided or supportive of anarchy. The exchange followed the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP)-backed protest in Delhi on October 10 against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The protesters had demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging that the exercise had led to the wrongful deletion of eligible voters. Reacting to the protest on Saturday, Manjhi described India as a "land of lions" and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah were lions who were "afraid neither of cockroaches nor of crickets" and knew how to deal with them. His remarks were seen as a reference to the CJP and its supporters. Responding to Manjhi at Patna airport on Sunday, Paswan said those using such language for political purposes overlooked the role young people had played in shaping the country's history and politics. "Those who portray India's youth as weak, misguided or supportive of anarchy forget that young people have repeatedly changed the course of the country and its politics. It is wholly unjustified to use such terms for the youth who have helped shape the nation's future and shown it the way forward," Paswan told reporters....