Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the Congress Party, a day after the workers of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) held a 'shirtless protest' inside an exhibition hall at the AI Impact Summit venue.
The workers protested at the Summit, and walked around holding T-shirts printed with images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump at Bharat Mandapam in Delhi.
In his first comment to the protest, while addressing a rally in Meerut after inaugurating development projects worth around Rs 12,930 crore, Modi said that there are some political parties within the country who cannot digest India's success.
The Prime Minister said that what Congress leaders did there shows how ideologically bankrupt the party has become.
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"Congress leaders hate Modi. They want to dig my grave. They don't even hesitate to insult my mother. Congress should have remembered that the AI Global Summit was not a BJP event, and no BJP leader was present at that time. This was country's event. Congress broke the decorum that day. They turned a global event for India into a platform for its dirty and naked politics."
Further, targeting the grand-old party, Modi said that the party cannot perform themselves in Parliament, nor do they allow their allied parties to speak.
The Prime Minister also claimed that after what happened at the summit, Congress's allies have deserted them.
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Meanwhile, A Delhi court on Sunday denied bail to four accused who were arrested for allegedly disrupting the AI Summit. The court granted five days' police custody.
The arrested accused have been identified as Krishna Hari, national secretary of Youth Congress from Bihar; Kundan Yadav, state secretary of Bihar; Ajay Kumar, state president of Uttar Pradesh; and Narasimha Yadav from Telangana, reported PTI.
Earlier in the day, in his montly Mann Ki Baat episode, Modi said he showed myriad things to world leaders, especially two things which impressed them a lot.
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