Patna, 30 October (UNI) Challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to contradict US President Donald Trump over his repeated cliams of ceasefire between India and Pakistan post the Pahalgam attack, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, today said that he cannot stand up to him and say that “Trump was lying about having stopped Operation Sindoor.”
Addressing a large public rally in Nalanda, the Congress leader noted that President Trump had humiliated PM Modi about fifty times, repeatedly claiming that he made Modi stop the war, yet Modi was keeping quiet.
Accusing Modi of trying to run away and hide from Trump, Gandhi said that Modi was avoiding meeting the US President and had not even gone to the US. “Modi does not have the courage to say that the US President is lying,” said Rahul.
Drawing a comparison, he pointed out, in 1971, the US threatened India with its Seventh Fleet, but the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi stood her ground and told the US in clear terms that India would do what it needed to do.
“Indira Gandhi was a woman, yet she had more courage than this man. Modi is a coward. He neither has vision nor the courage to stand up to Trump. This is the truth and I challenge him to say it here in Bihar, where he is addressing public meetings, that the US President is lying and that he did not stop Operation Sindoor at his instance.”
He said that instead of confronting Trump, Modi was busy stealing votes and manipulating elections to undermine the Constitution of Dr BR Ambedkar.
“They barely managed to win the last General Election even after stealing votes. Had there been no vote theft, the INDIA bloc would have been in power at the Centre,” he noted.
Recalling the past glory of Nalanda and Bihar, the senior Congress leader promised that the same glory would be restored, with Nalanda once again emerging as a global centre of knowledge and learning.
Expressing confidence that the INDIA bloc government would be formed in Bihar this time, he said, by restoring Nalanda to its historic grandeur, a message would be conveyed across India that people of Bihar are not merely meant to do physical labour, but they possess academic and intellectual prowess and brilliance as well.
He pointed out that in ancient times, people from Japan, China, and Korea would visit Nalanda to gain knowledge and education.
Gandhi once again claimed that the current Bihar Government is run by PM Modi and Amit Shah, while Nitish Kumar is merely a mask. He said, Nitish’s remote control lies in Modi’s hands.
“Modi presses the button and Nitish plays to his tune,” he remarked.
He promised that the INDIA Alliance government will change all this and form a people’s government in Bihar – one that represents all sections of society, including the Extremely Backward Classes, Backward Classes, Dalits, Maha Dalits, Minorities, the General Castes, farmers, and labourers.
