**EDS: VIDEO GRAB** Kargil: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a public meeting, in Kargil district, Ladakh, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday came out strongly against a teacher in Uttar Pradesh who allegedly asked her students to slap a class 2 student from a minority community.
He said a holy place like a school is being turned into a 'marketplace of hatred'
His reaction comes after a video of the school teacher's act went viral on social media.
"Sowing the poison of discrimination in the minds of innocent children, turning a holy place like a school into a market place of hatred – there is nothing worse a teacher can do for the country," Gandhi said on microblogging site X in Hindi.
"This is the same kerosene spread by the BJP which has set every corner of India on fire. Children are the future of India - do not hate them, we all have to together teach love," he added.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also expressed her dismay over the viral video, saying "what kind of classroom and society do we want to give to our future generations".
"Where there is talk of technology to go to the moon or things that build a boundary wall of hatred. The choice is clear. Hate is the biggest enemy of progress," she said on X.
"We have to unite and speak against this hatred - for our country, for progress, for the coming generations," she added.