‘Rahul Gandhi under radical Left influence’: How BJP’s line of attack against the Congress leader has evolved

On Wednesday, addressing enactment leaders aft the inauguration of the Congress’s caller office Gandhi said, “Do not deliberation that we are warring a just fight… The BJP and the RSS person captured each azygous instauration of our country. We are present warring the BJP, the RSS and the Indian authorities itself.”

The aforesaid day, BJP president and Union Health Minister J P Nadda took to X to accidental that the “(the) Congress’ disfigured truth” was “exposed”.

“I compliment Mr. Rahul Gandhi for saying intelligibly what the federation knows – that helium is warring the Indian state! It is not a concealed that Mr. Gandhi and his ecosystem person adjacent links with Urban Naxals and the Deep State who privation to defame, demean and discredit India,” Nadda posted adjacent arsenic his Cabinet colleagues Nirmala Sitharaman, the Union Finance Minister, and Dharmendra Pradhan, the Education Minister, joined in.

A time later, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said short-seller Hindenburg Research, which had levelled allegations of malpractices against the Adani Group and is present shutting down, was the Congress leader’s “international confederation partner”.

Poonawalla alleged that the organisation, on with Gandhi, was looking to harm the Indian economy. Former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad besides alleged that the “Hindenburg shop” was shutting down arsenic the presumption of George Soros, its “funder”, had “weakened” successful the US.

A elder BJP person who did not privation to beryllium named alleged that the Congress has been “captured by the Left”. “Rahul Gandhi’s statements telephone for nary different effect than to onslaught him connected these lines (that helium is against India). When helium says helium is warring the Indian state, it intelligibly shows that helium is nether the power of the extremist Left, which has a wont of criticising the state,” helium said.

The person alleged that the Congress had “promoted the Left” since the precocious 1960s and that with the ideology’s diminution successful the past decade, galore of its leaders person “entered the Congress and person go the eyes and ears of the Gandhis”. “So, portion the operation of the Congress is tottering, the Left has captured its mind,” said the leader.

Ignoring these attacks, the Congress continued to people the RSS. Supriya Shrinate, the Congress societal media and integer platforms chairperson, said present that “the BJP has been cornered” it was “hiding down the word state”.

“What incorrect has Rahul Gandhi said? He is perfectly close … Our combat is with the full system; with the authorities which is nether the power of the full Sangh Parivar; with an autocratic government. Foolish BJP members bash not cognize the quality betwixt ‘nation’ and ‘state’. ‘State’ is the useless government, corrupt bureaucrats, agencies afloat of Sanghis…,” she said.

Previous disapproval of Gandhi

In December 2024, the BJP fielded Puri MP and enactment spokesperson Sambit Patra to impeach Gandhi of being portion of a “dangerous triad” of which Soros and immoderate American agencies were a part. Patra past demanded an probe into the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a planetary web of investigative journalists, which helium accused of planting stories against India.

“I person nary hesitation successful saying that helium is simply a traitor of the highest order,” Patra said astatine the time. The aforesaid day, the BJP posted connected societal media, “The transportation betwixt George Soros and the Nehru-Gandhi household runs deep, extending beyond Sonia Gandhi’s relation arsenic co-president of the Forum of Democratic Leaders – Asia Pacific (FDL-AP). Fori Nehru, a Hungarian similar Soros, was joined to BK Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru’s cousin, making her the aunt of Rahul Gandhi. Soros is documented to person visited Fori Nehru and maintained extended correspondence with her.”

The aforesaid month, the BJP besides seized connected an probe by Mediapart, a integer newspaper, into the OCCRP that showed that some the American authorities and Soros were its funders.

The BJP alleged that the OCCRP’s sum of the Adani row, the Pegasus surveillance app, and Brazil’s 2021 suspension of the import of Covaxin were instantly followed by Gandhi and the Congress raising the aforesaid issues. However, different media outlets besides raised the aforesaid contented and the Congress had taken up the Pegasus contented earlier the OCCRP reported connected it. At the time, Mediapart besides condemned the “instrumentalisation” of its study connected the OCCRP by the BJP to further its governmental agenda.

At the time, the Congress rejected the charges and said these were aimed astatine diverting attraction from a US court’s look into the bribery charges against the Adani group.

The BJP had besides alleged that a subordinate of the Soros Foundation had taken portion successful Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. Party MP Nishikant Dubey besides accused the Congress enactment of gathering those overseas elements who privation to interruption India.

When Gandhi attacked the RSS connected a travel to the US successful September 2024, Union Minister Giriraj Singh labelled him a “traitor”, accusing him of going overseas lone to defame India.

Last August, erstwhile Hindenburg Research accused SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch of having stakes successful obscure offshore entities related to the Adani Group, Ravi Shankar Prasad alleged: “… The Hindenburg study is released connected Saturday, determination is uproar connected Sunday, truthful the superior marketplace is destabilised connected Monday.”

In 2023, erstwhile Gandhi told British parliamentarians that statement was being stifled successful India, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, successful the Lok Sabha, accused Gandhi “of insulting India abroad” and demanded an apology.