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A political face-off has erupted between the Congress and BJP over the 'Narendra Surrender' jibe. Congress accused the Prime Minister of succumbing to US pressure for a ceasefire with Pakistan.
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00:00One political jibe and one massive political face-off.
00:07Congress now doubling down on the Narendra surrender jibe at the Prime Minister.
00:17The latest Amaga-themed baseball cap social media post.
00:22The Lok Sabha L.O.P. Rahul Gandhi was first to launch a sharp attack on Prime Minister Modi,
00:31alleging that PM succumbed to the U.S. pressure for a ceasefire with Pakistan.
00:36Following a call from Donald Trump,
00:41adding to the criticism, the Congress then posted a meme on the social media platform X,
00:46mocking Prime Minister's interaction with the U.S. President
00:50and accusing the BJP of buckling under foreign pressure.
00:55Trump had a message from there.
01:01He took a phone and said,
01:04Modi ji, what are you doing?
01:10Narendra, surrender!
01:16And, yes, in favor, Narendra Modi ji has a message from Trump.
01:21The BJP hit back, launching a scathing counter-attack with J.P. Nadda, BJP Party President,
01:30calling Rahul Gandhi's comments treason and a grave insult to the armed forces.
01:35Rahul Gandhi ji, you, you, your party and your servants,
01:46because of the independence of the independence of Hindustan's calendar,
01:50the surrender has been filled with the surrender.
01:52And, where we are talking about our Prime Minister ji, I want to say it clear, I want to say it.
01:56Rahul Gandhi ji, let someone else surrender.
02:00Interestingly, Rahul's own two-party leaders,
02:10who were part of the Indian delegation to the U.S.,
02:13Salman Khurshid and Shashi Tharoor, had contrarian views.
02:18While Khurshid supported the party line of the Congress,
02:22Tharoor seemed to have contradicted his own party,
02:25stating it was Pakistan that had to be persuaded by the U.S. for the ceasefire, not India.
02:32We have enormous respect for the American presidency and the American president.
02:37All we can say for ourselves is that we have never particularly wanted to ask anyone to mediate.
02:45As I said, we have no real difficulty in speaking the same language as the Pakistanis.
02:50As long as they use the language of terrorism, we will use the language of force.
02:54And that doesn't require a third party.
02:56I have no response.
03:26The latest delegation member and part of the India Alliance, Supriya Sule from NCP Sharad Pawaar also said that maybe the Congress should have waited for the delegations to return before attacking the government and raising questions.
03:56The Democratic Party delegation is talking about this session in the world and we are asking about this session.
04:26Thank you for listening. Both our panelists will get two minutes each to put for their party view. Joining me, Mahima Singh, National Spokesperson, Congress, Sanju Verma, National Spokesperson, BJP.
04:36I would like to begin with Mahima Singh from the National Congress and the question that I ask you, Mahima Singh, stems from the last reaction you heard of your own ally partner, NCP Sharad Pawaar, Supriya Sule suggesting or saying very clearly that possibly one could have waited for the foreign delegations to all come home
04:56before raking it up politically back home domestically.
05:05Jai Hind, Preeti, I was listening to the statements carefully that you have just played out.
05:10I heard Supriya Sule that she is speaking about the special parliament session, which we have been demanding, the opposition has been demanding.
05:20And, you know, I think she has made it very clear that we want to come and question the special parliament session after concluding these.
05:29I do not think that she has spoken about whether there was Trump's intervention or not.
05:34And I would say that, you know, when it comes to Mr. Rahul Gandhi indicating towards Mr. Narendra Modi's surrender politics, I think it started way long back.
05:48You know, Mr. Rahul Gandhi first tweeted in 2020.
05:52You go to his handle and see the pinned tweet.
05:54He first said, you know, Nam Narendra Kam surrender in 2020 because that is what our prime minister has been doing, giving a clean shit to China, surrendering before the farmers after a one and a half years long agitation, refusing to meet them.
06:12Now, the same has been going in Manipur two years.
06:15He's been refusing to go there to meet them.
06:17We do not know what will eventually happen.
06:19There's a civil war going on in Manipur as well.
06:22But coming back to the Pehalgaam situation, now the prime minister is tomorrow going to Pehalgaam.
06:29And there are questions that we have been urging him to answer.
06:32But in the meanwhile, Riti, if you hear Mr. Yuri Ushakov, who is Mr. Putin's aide from Russia, you see, he has revealed that the four-day India-Pakistan conflict came up during the 75-minute telephonic conversation between Putin and Trump.
06:52And it came to be heard by Putin that there was Trump's involvement in ending the hostilities between India and Pakistan.
07:01All we are asking and demanding time and again is that Mr. Prime Minister, please...
07:06Ma'am, your time is up.
07:07I want to bring in Sanju Verma into this conversation.
07:09Sanju Verma, you know, domestically, the opposition might be saying whatever and you can say that this is all politics.
07:16But internationally, it's not making your life easy is why I say because the word, official word, ma'am, which is coming from the Kremlin right now after the conversation of the President Donald Trump with Putin is
07:28that India-Pakistan conflict was stopped with Trump's personal participation.
07:33It's not come from America.
07:34It's actually come in from the Kremlin, Russia.
07:36You know, Preeti, first and foremost, let me make one thing very, very clear.
07:42The Congress today sounds like...
07:44Rahul Gandhi is absolutely clueless about how military protocols work, about how foreign policy protocols work.
08:09But be that as it may, just Rahul Gandhi, even in Lok Sabha 2019 and Lok Sabha 2024,
08:19the people of India have seen the exit door, the Bharatiya Janta Party does not deem it fit to answer to a loser like Rahul Gandhi,
08:28even though he may be leader of opposition.
08:30But let me address the elephant in the room.
08:33The elephant in the room is this, Preeti.
08:35The very Congress party, which today is, you know, saying,
08:42Donald Trump has said this, Donald Trump has said this, Donald Trump has said this,
08:45that I have mediation done.
08:47Don't listen to Donald Trump's new face, listen to this,
08:53when your Pavan Khaira, your Jerome Ramesh, your Rahul Gandhi,
08:58who is a documented sociopath, said,
09:01Narendra surrender, let me tell Rahul Gandhi the hard fact.
09:05Aksai Chin lost in China in 1962, Nehru ne surrender kiya.
09:12Karakodong Pass lost in 1963, Nehru ne surrender kiya.
09:17Tia Paunak and Chapji Valley lost in 2008, Congress ne surrender kiya.
09:23Doomchelli lost in 2009, Congress ne surrender kiya.
09:27Demchok lost in 2012, Sonia Gandhi ki proxy government ne surrender kiya.
09:33Rafi Nulla lost in 2013, Sonia Gandhi ki proxy government ne surrender kiya.
09:39Have some share.
09:40Okay.
09:42Ma'am, your fader's gone down.
09:43I want to bring back Mahima Singh into the conversation.
09:45Mahima Singh, at this juncture,
09:47now the BJP is saying that this is nothing short of treason.
09:51You, your party has come under heavy criticism fairly by using a terminology
09:58where you bring the Prime Minister along with saying surrender at a time
10:03where it could really matter, especially where perception is concerned.
10:08So, could you have waited?
10:10Which is advice not just coming in from, you know, many analysts,
10:15but also coming in from your own alliance partners within the India alliance.
10:19Especially when you rake up a charge like this.
10:22You can ask questions.
10:23But to actually conflate both the Prime Minister with surrendering
10:27is not just talking about the Prime Minister in person.
10:30Then you are bringing in the present day armed forces that fought that battle
10:35and you are actually conflating India.
10:37Because Prime Minister Modi, whether you like him or not,
10:39actually represents us, which is India.
10:46Priti, first of all, please ask your team to correct your audio.
10:48So, I can hear the BJP spokesperson's audio very correctly.
10:52Your video is seamless, but your audio seems to be interrupted consistently.
10:58I cannot understand your question, but whatever I have made out of your question,
11:01let me just answer.
11:02You see, I was, I mean, you are asking me what the India partners are saying
11:08and I am saying that you are hearing it differently
11:10because I have heard their statements.
11:12And you see, when you can go on to interpret Mr. S.J. Shankar's statements,
11:17which are made as a matter of foreign policy ten times,
11:22why take, you know, why just take on the face what India partners
11:26or within the Congress leaders are saying?
11:28There are many meanings to every statement,
11:30just like you have been deriving from Mr. S.J. Shankar's statements.
11:33But I would like to say that those who have allowed the hyphenation of India
11:38with Pakistan, the BJPites, Mr. Modi's government,
11:43are the ones who are unfortunately hyphenating India with Modi.
11:47India is not Modi and Modi is not India.
11:50And I would say that as many times as it takes for the BJP slow heads to understand,
11:56Modi is not India.
11:57India is much larger than Narendra Modi.
12:01And Narendra Modi's larger-than-life pride needs to be put to rest.
12:07The terrorists came within our boundary, 300 kilometers within.
12:11Pehelgaam happened.
12:12The terrorists have been out on the loose for 18 months.
12:16Nothing has been done.
12:17Time and again, we have become a laughingstock on world stages
12:20because of the kind of statements that our foreign minister is making,
12:24that our prime minister is making, you know,
12:27who got to politicking right after that attack happened.
12:30The world is watching us, Preeti.
12:32So I think we should get serious and answer,
12:34where are those four terrorists?
12:36What is this government doing about the skewed foreign policy,
12:40which this government has not taken care of in the last 11 years?
12:43Why has the government allowed IMF loan for Pakistan?
12:47One, the time is up. I'll come back to you.
12:49If you can hear me, well, you know, you say that India is not Modi
12:52and it's very clear, well, India might not be Modi,
12:54but India is the prime minister
12:55because the prime minister represents India.
12:58So there is a clear difference in that.
13:00So you're hyphenating the prime minister with surrender.
13:03That was the question and I'll circle back to you.
13:05Allow me because we can't hear you
13:06and I'll give you time to explain yourself.
13:08But Sanju Verma, I want to pull you in
13:09because you talk of the elephants in the room.
13:12All right, so if Donald Trump is one elephant in the room,
13:15sitting next to him is another elephant now, Sanju Verma,
13:19that used to be our friend at one point in time
13:21and that's Russia because the word of mediation
13:23is not coming in from America.
13:24It's coming in from the Kremlin, which is Russia.
13:26So now there are two elephants in the room,
13:28which the government or the BJP refuses to acknowledge.
13:33You know, Preeti, there is a famous Hindi saying,
13:36but let me educate the Congress spokesperson who I'm sure does not even know
13:56the full form of IEMF.
13:58Aise-ase logo say,
14:00Sanju Verma ko debate karne padti hai, my dad.
14:03But let me address your audience.
14:05The fact of the matter is this.
14:07What Kremlin is doing,
14:09what Putin is doing,
14:10what Donald Trump is doing,
14:12I'm the national spokesperson for the BJP.
14:15I trust my prime minister.
14:16I trust the defense minister.
14:18I trust the external affairs minister.
14:20I trust the MEA spokesperson.
14:22I trust the DGMO.
14:24I'm not like Rahul Gandhi,
14:26who wants to trust Donald Trump,
14:29who has given a song,
14:30but he does not want to trust his own prime minister.
14:34P. Chidambaram has called up the bluff of Rahul Gandhi.
14:37Kalman Khursheed has called up the bluff of Rahul Gandhi.
14:40Shashi Tharoor has called up the bluff of Rahul Gandhi.
14:43Rahul Gandhi,
14:44Siwai Pavan Khera Kheru,
14:46who's desperate for a Rajya Sabah,
14:48see,
14:48your own colleague has called you out.
14:50And let me tell you,
14:52surrender when did it happen, Preeti?
14:541947-48,
14:55when P.O.K. got created
14:57under the incompetent nose of Nehru.
15:00Surrender when did it happen?
15:01In 1972,
15:03when Indira Gandhi signed a lame duck Shimla agreement,
15:06did not get back 54 Indian POWs,
15:08but handed over 93,000 Pakistani POWs
15:12on a golden platter to Pakistan.
15:15Surrender when did it happen?
15:16When under the long and incumbent
15:18in the nose of Rajiv Gandhi,
15:20we allowed a free pass to Warren Anderson
15:23of the Bhopal gas tragedy out of India.
15:26Surrender when did it happen?
15:28Then when Ottavio caught Rofi,
15:31Sonia Gandhi's best buddy,
15:33was given a free pass out of India.
15:35All right, ma'am, your time is up.
15:37I'm going to give each of you 30 seconds.
15:38I'm going to put the clock in for one minute,
15:40but I'll take it down at 30,
15:41because that's all the time that we have for now.
15:44Mahima Singh, your timer starts now.
15:45You've got 30 seconds to come up
15:48and put your party position forward.
15:51Go ahead, ma'am.
15:53Even BJP pities its own spokespersons
15:56who come down to character assassination.
15:59And we saw that just a few days ago.
16:01You know, when logic is lost,
16:03Preeti, character assassination
16:05is the only option they have to resort to.
16:09Now, let me just say,
16:10a $2.6 billion deal
16:13has been signed between Russia and Pakistan.
16:15Russia had sworn in 2010,
16:18they will never sign deals with Pakistan.
16:20Let me also remind that it is in six years
16:23for the first time.
16:24India has not been invited to the top summit.
16:26I'll give you five seconds.
16:27Allow me to...
16:28We have not been invited to G7 top summit.
16:32It is at the best of BJP.
16:33Let them ask for that.
16:34Ma'am, time's up.
16:35Time's up.
16:35Time's up.
16:36Go ahead.
16:37Sanju, what my yoke?
16:37Go, Preeti.
16:3835 seconds.
16:39Ma'am, I'll give you exactly the same time.
16:4035 seconds begin now.
16:42Go ahead.
16:42Preeti, they abused the Rafale D.
16:48They abused the S-400 2018 D.
16:52They abused when India became the fourth largest economy.
16:55They abused Operation Sindhu.
16:58They abused when we became the only country
17:01with the world's fourth largest foreign reserve.
17:04They abused when we became the only country
17:07to have the world's third largest aviation market.
17:10They abused when we became the world's third largest car market.
17:14They abused when we actually signed the biggest trade deal
17:19with UAE and GDP.
17:20Okay, map done.
17:21All right.
17:22With that, I'm going to end the show.
17:23That's all the time that we have for now.
17:24Thank you both ladies for joining us.
17:26I'm sure we're going to have you again
17:27because the debate continues to rage on.
17:29For our viewers, you decide.
17:30Narendra, surrender.
17:32Was it the right terminology to use?
17:35Will it backfire or will it actually gain traction?
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