<p>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. </p><p>He said a holy place like a school is being turned into a 'marketplace of hatred' </p><p>His reaction comes after a video of the school teacher's act went viral on social media.</p>.Child thrashed by other kids on order of teacher in UP school.<p>"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.</p>.<p>"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.</p>.<p>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".</p>.<p>"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.</p>.<p>"We have to unite and speak against this hatred - for our country, for progress, for the coming generations," she added.</p>
<p>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. </p><p>He said a holy place like a school is being turned into a 'marketplace of hatred' </p><p>His reaction comes after a video of the school teacher's act went viral on social media.</p>.Child thrashed by other kids on order of teacher in UP school.<p>"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.</p>.<p>"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.</p>.<p>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".</p>.<p>"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.</p>.<p>"We have to unite and speak against this hatred - for our country, for progress, for the coming generations," she added.</p>