New Delhi, July 22 -- Congress leaders, led by Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi, surprised the Union government by staging a sit-in protest near Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence on Tuesday. The Congress leaders demanded resignation of prime minister, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the police action against students protesting the NEET paper leak during the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) march in Delhi on Monday.

The Congress party's top leadership surprised not just the government and the police but also several of its MPs in staging a sit-in at one of the gates of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 7, Lok Kalyan Marg residence, according to a report in PTI.

The protest was unpre...