Opinion | Baniyans & Bedlam: Congress Party Scales Summit Of Political Pettiness

Of late, under the more impulsive leadership of Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party has embraced a brand of gonzo politics

A shirtless mob of Congress party workers rifled through the main exhibition hall of the Bharat Mandapam where India was hosting the AI Summit. Clearly confusing hooliganism with democratic protest, they made a right royal nuisance of themselves. They shouted anti-Modi slogans and jostled with shocked delegates. This scene that embalmed this swarm of baniyan-donning billy bunters was at once pitiful and consequential. It was pitiful because it captured the intellectual and moral hollowing out of the Congress party. It was consequential because it reflects just how irreversibly broken bipartisanship is in India.

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