Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a sharp attack on the Congress at the NDTV World Summit in New Delhi, accusing the party of going abroad to defame India and soliciting foreign intervention to shield its leadership from repeated failure, IANS reported.

Source: IANS

"They go abroad to defame the country and even solicit foreign intervention. One wonders how long the Congress will continue to put the nation at stake just to launch its 'failed product'," Modi said. He did not name anyone, but the remark was widely read as a veiled reference to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

Modi said Congress makes more unsuccessful attempts to launch its leader in a single year than there are launches from Sriharikota, India's spaceport, and alleged that the party is questioning India's achievements and progress to protect one family from the stain of constant failure. "The grapes are truly sour," he said.

Escalating the attack, the Prime Minister said 'dimagi naxals' — a phrase he used for what he called a hijacked mindset — had taken over the Congress party's thinking, DevDiscourse reported, carrying the same remarks. The BJP's official X account quoted him as saying Congress had become a "parasite" that does not let anyone progress, The Daily Jagran reported.

Source: DevDiscourse

Modi further alleged — as his claim — that the family has become a burden on the Congress itself and that even senior party leaders privately acknowledge this but stay silent. He said the Congress's constant clamour drowns out genuine opponents who want to raise issues through democratic means, and that talented young parliamentarians from other opposition parties are denied space because the Congress insists on keeping only one person in the limelight.

The remarks came in the same summit address in which Modi described the present moment as a 'world between orders' and called for a humanity-centred global order. The Congress attack follows weeks of Congress-led protests against the Chief Election Commissioner amid the row over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.