BJP firebrand Shehzad Poonawalla didn’t hold back, branding Rahul Gandhi as the globe’s foremost fabricator of lies while decrying Congress’s devolution into a brainless entity amid the AI Summit protests. Speaking to media in Pune, he dissected the party’s latest missteps with surgical precision.
Gandhi’s courtroom pilgrimages for defamation suits over Rafale, Savarkar, and RSS fabrications paint him as ‘Leader of Propaganda,’ per Poonawalla. ‘Courts repeatedly chastise him, yet he persists in spreading venom,’ he observed, linking this to a broader strategy of misinformation that courts are now countering decisively.
The assault extended to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and her brother, whom he accused of Northeast animosity. Rahul’s snub of the President’s Gamosa gift and Priyanka’s purported mistreatment of the Assamese emblem in a circulating video signal deep disrespect, Poonawalla argued, positioning it as emblematic of Congress’s cultural arrogance.
Youth Congress’s bare-chested invasion of the AI Summit crystallized the critique. ‘From shirtless to characterless, tasteless, shameless, pointless, brainless—this is Anti-National Congress in action,’ Poonawalla thundered. He condemned the leadership’s validation of the sabotage attempt, equating protesters to icons like Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh, as proof of top-down orchestration.
Poonawalla’s verdict: Congress’s embrace of disruption over dialogue reveals a party unmoored from its heritage, prioritizing chaos over constructive nationalism in vital forums like AI innovation summits.