Shayam Pandit Beats Students on Camera
New Delhi: After the resignation of the Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, several opposition leaders, including Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, slammed the BJP and its allies in Uttar Pradesh after a video went viral showing a leader abusing, slapping, and attempting to beat two young individuals for supporting the CJP protest.
The viral video on X shows Shyam Pandit of Rashtriya Veer Hindu Sena, a right-wing Hindu group based in Ghaziabad. SP president criticised the leader and NDA for their alleged ‘audacity’ and ‘historical betrayal’. Akhilesh wrote, “A Message to Agitators Across the Country! Let everyone witness the BJP and their allies' misconduct, vile words, and violence.”
The viral video shows that Pandit was interrogating two students while sitting in the car; he first asked their names and whereabouts before moving on to asking whether they supported the students which started in Jantar Mantar and then spread across India, including UP.
Pandit lost his calm with young students and started using abusive and foul language, and even at one point he grabbed one of the students’ collars and started slapping him for allegedly supporting the protest that he believed to be anti-national and harmful to the national interest.
देशभर के आंदोलनकारियों के सूचनार्थ!
भाजपा और उनके संगी-साथियों के दुर्व्यवहार, दुर्वचनों और हिंसा को सब देख लें। इनका दुस्साहस देखिए कि अभी युवाओं को वचन दिए हुए चंद घंटे भी नहीं हुए हैं और ये भाजपाई अपने इतिहास को दोहराते हुए फिर से धोखा दे रहे हैं। भाजपा के ये संस्कारी नेताजी… pic.twitter.com/DASFibVr11
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) July 25, 2026
Akhliesh Yadav wrote, sharing the video, that, “Behold their audacity: mere hours have passed since promises were made to the youth, and these BJP members are repeating their historical betrayals by deceiving once again. These so-called cultured BJP leaders are brazenly tearing apart the assurances given by their top leadership and even filming videos of it. Is this too happening because of a clash between the double engines? Immediate Arrest.”
Yadav even accused the party of not fulfilling its own promises made to the people.
