- Prime Minister Modi criticised Congress for a shirtless protest at the India AI Impact Summit
- He called the protest an example of Congress's ideological bankruptcy and dirty politics
- PM Modi said the AI Summit was a national event, not a BJP function, and Congress broke decorum
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hit out at Congress, accusing it of using a global event for its "dirty and naked politics" after its youth wing leaders staged a shirtless protest during the recent India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. According to PM Modi, the protest showed how "ideologically bankrupt" and "impoverished" the grand old party has become.
In a scathing jibe at Congress, PM Modi said, "You are already naked, then why did you feel the need to take off your clothes?"
"What the Congress leaders did there shows how ideologically bankrupt and impoverished the oldest party of the country has become. Congress is busy defaming its own country. Some political parties within the country cannot digest India's success. We just witnessed the world's largest AI conference in India. But what did the Congress and its ecosystem do? The Congress turned a global event for India into a platform for its dirty and naked politics," the PM said while addressing a gathering in Meerut.
The Prime Minister asserted that the Congress should have remembered the AI Summit was "not a BJP event'.
"Congress leaders hate me, they want to dig my grave. They don't even hesitate to insult my mother. Congress should have remembered that the AI Global Summit was not a BJP event, and no BJP leader was present at that time. This was a national work. But Congress broke the decorum that day. This corrupt policy of Congress is being condemned by the entire country," he said.
A group of Youth Congress workers on Friday barged into a hall at the AI Summit, shirtless, shouting slogans against the government over agreeing to a trade deal with the US. Some of the protesters were seen holding T-shirts with images of PM Modi and US President Donald Trump on them.
As the security staff and police deployed at the venue tried to stop the Youth Congress workers, they allegedly engaged in an argument with them.
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Four protesters, identified as Krishna Hari, Youth Congress national secretary; Kundan Yadav, Bihar Youth Congress state secretary; Ajay Kumar, UP Youth Congress vice president, and Narasimha Yadav, Youth Congress national coordinator - were arrested. They were produced before a court on Saturday, following which they sent to five days of police remand.
