Lashing out at Rahul Gandhi over his protests at the Hyderabad Central University (HCU), HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Monday accused the Congress vice-president of using education as "battle-ground" and students as "political fodder" to take revenge on her for posing a challenge in his Amethi constituency.
"Rahul Gandhi would have to take the revenge of Amethi somewhere. I was waiting for it... He wants to make education the battle-ground and use students as political fodder," she said. She alleged that Gandhi was "hell-bent" on avenging for the tough challenge she had posed to him in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, she said.