New Delhi, July 29 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pralhad Joshi has come under Opposition fire days after being appointed India's Education Minister, replacing fellow party leader Dharmendra Pradhan, who resigned amid a massive controversy over the NEET paper leak.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi led the Opposition's attack and described Pralhad Joshi as a 'defender of rapists' and a 'filthy man' as he hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for appointing such a person as the country's education minister.

Speaking to reporters outside Parliament on Tuesday, 28 July, the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha said the prime minister could have chosen anyone in his cabinet as the education minister, but it is strange he chose a person wh...