Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday (December 26, 2025) alleged that the BJP-RSS combine is conspiring to weaken education and institutions, stressing that education needs freedom while institutions will be run by knowledge and science, not by ideology.
In a post on Facebook, Mr. Gandhi said he met with students of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) at Jan Sansad recently, who reiterated the same serious concerns that students and teachers from other educational institutions across the country have been consistently raising.
The students explained that the ISI is gradually being taken over institutionally by the RSS, Mr. Gandhi alleged.
He said the ISI is not just any ordinary institution but it conducts high-level research in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science and policy-making, and has produced world-class experts for the country.
"The Academic Councils, which should be run by academicians, are now facing bureaucratic and ideological interference. The syllabus and research are also being controlled by the RSS ideology.
