The political row over the shirtless protest by members of the Indian Youth Congress at the AI summit in Delhi escalated in the evening, with workers of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha staging a counter-protest outside the residence of Rahul Gandhi. BJYM members burned an effigy of Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of orchestrating the earlier disruption at the global AI event. Police later detained several BJYM workers during the protest outside his residence. The developments mark a sharp intensification of the political confrontation between the BJP and Congress over the AI summit controversy.