Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday claimed there are cracks within the Congress and the wider Opposition ranks over the party’s “repeated efforts to launch a failed product”, in a not-so-veiled attack on Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition, who has been on the streets against the BJP-led NDA government over alleged electoral fraud. Using the word “parjeeevi” or ‘parasite’ for the main Opposition party, and deploying the term “dimagi (mental) naxals”, he said the voices of “honest critics” get lost in the “noise that the Congress creates”.
“There are movements that naturally want to expose the government’s shortcomings and genuinely want to reform the system, and this is necessary in a democracy… Their voice gets lost in Congress’s noise,” said PM Narendra Modi, as part of a keynote address at the NDTV World Summit 2026.
“There are movements that naturally want to expose the government’s shortcomings and genuinely want to reform the system, and this is necessary in a democracy… There has lately been some synergy between the Congress and the statedly apolitical CJP on the issue of alleged police excesses to quell demonstrations. Those who want to speak against the government democratically, their voice too gets lost in the Congress’s noise,” said PM Modi, as part of his keynote address at the NDTV World Summit 2026 in New Delhi, accusing the Congress of destroying such movements.
READ | “Some Dreaming Of Disorder”: PM’s “Failed Product Of Congress” Jibe At Rahul Gandhi The remarks come at a time when, besides the Congress-led INDIA bloc that has the Samajwadi Party and the Left among its constituents, other Opposition parties such as the AAP have also been on the streets, as has been the youth movement Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) that forced the change of the education minister in July. READ | MK Stalin Backs CJP Protest, Rules Out Working With ‘Backstabber’ Congress The Congress, after changing its ally in Tamil Nadu, recently lost a major constituent of the INDIA bloc, MK Stalin’s DMK, which has stayed away from Rahul Gandhi’s protests on the “vote chori” issue, though it has backed the CJP’s demand along the same lines for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
