NEW DELHI, JUL 28 (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday described Pralhad Joshi as a “defender of rapists” and a “filthy man” as he hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for appointing such a person as the country’s education minister. Speaking to reporters outside Parliament, the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha said the prime minister could have chosen anyone in his cabinet as the education minister, but it is strange he chose a person who “protects rapists”. That is the Education Minister of India today,” Gandhi told reporters. Crores of young women study in the institutions he now oversees. “India’s women will never accept PM Modi’s new Education Minister,” the Congress leader said in his post.