Amid the fallout from Youth Congress’ provocative shirtless antics at Delhi’s AI Summit, UP Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar has train-laid into Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of a pattern of maligning India internationally. In Azamgarh on Wednesday, Rajbhar responded to Anurag Thakur’s parliamentary barb branding Gandhi a traitor, offering his own unfiltered take.
‘Rahul Gandhi never misses a chance to humiliate India abroad or in speeches,’ Rajbhar declared. He zeroed in on Gandhi’s Election Commission broadsides: ‘He owes his MP seat to them. Resign if you doubt their integrity, don’t play both sides.’ Applauding SP’s Awadhesh Prasad for denouncing the summit protest—marked by nudity and chaos in front of foreign dignitaries—Rajbhar labeled it a shameful act.
On the security front, Rajbhar ripped into Imran Masood’s comments on LeT module suspects granted police remand. ‘Innocents framed? Then why is Masood free?’ he quipped, pointing to seized fake currency machinery from madrasa raids in Prayagraj and Kushinagar. ‘This is pure vote-bank rhetoric; they can’t stomach the truth.’
Rajbhar’s salvo reflects BJP’s aggressive counter-narrative against opposition narratives on institutions and security. With UP’s political theater heating up, such exchanges signal a no-holds-barred campaign season ahead, where personal attacks and policy clashes collide.