Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said that she did not know of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests at New Delhi's Jamia Milia Islamia University over the weekend. She added that citizens should be wary of "jihadists, Maoists and separatists" getting into student activism.
Twitter trolled the Finance Minister heavily asking her, "What exactly does she know?"
Satirist Akash Banerjee wrote on Twitter, "You don't know what happened at Jamia... you don't know what happened to the economy... what DO you know?"
Hitting out at the Congress, Sitharaman said whipping up people's emotions on issues like the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) only shows the opposition party's frustration.
She also said that activism per se is not new to universities and attributed the same to "idealism" that guides a student because of his/her age.
(With Inputs from PTI)
