Dirty, naked politics: PM slams Cong over shirtless protest at AI summit

Flags off Meerut Metro and Namo Bharat rapid rail; inaugurates Rs 12,930 crore projects

- BISWAJEET BANERJEE

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the 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 the national Capital.

PM Modi said the protest showed how “ideologically bankrupt” and “impoverished” the grand old party has become.

“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 Al 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.