‘Kar diya kaam’: Rahul Gandhi remark on Youth Congress protest sparks BJP attack over ‘foreign origins’

Rahul Gandhi

• Rahul Gandhi accused of endorsing protest at Delhi AI Summit
• BJP's Amit Malviya says protest embarrassed India globally
• Congress criticized for interrupting event with global experts

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A political row has erupted after a remark by Rahul Gandhi during an All India Congress Committee meeting, with the BJP accusing the Congress leader of endorsing disruptive protests at a global technology event in Delhi.

BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya criticised Gandhi in a post on X, claiming the Congress leader said, “kar diya kaam, Congress youth walo ne,' after Indian Youth Congress workers staged a protest that disrupted an AI Summit being held in the national capital.

Malviya alleged that the protest embarrassed India on a global platform at a time when international experts, policymakers and innovators were gathered to discuss the future of artificial intelligence.

Rahul Gandhi proudly declared, “कर दिया काम यूथ कांग्रेस वालों ने”, after Youth Congress workers staged a naked protest to disrupt the prestigious AI Summit in Delhi, embarrassing India on a global platform. Let that sink in. When the world’s leading technology experts,… pic.twitter.com/ws6ZoPOrDO

— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) March 10, 2026

“When the world’s leading technology experts, policymakers, and innovators were discussing the future of Artificial Intelligence, the Congress party thought the best way to represent India was through disruption and indecency,” Malviya wrote on X.

Malviya also invoked India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, while criticising the Congress party. He referred to a historical debate in the 1950s following the death of Yeshwantrao Holkar II, the ruler of Indore, over succession to the Holkar dynasty.

"In the 1950s, when the question of succession to the Indore throne arose after the death of Maharaja Yeshwantrao Holkar II, the issue was whether his American-born son, Richard Holkar, from his American wife, could inherit the legacy of the Holkar dynasty. After deliberation involving the government of the day, including Rajendra Prasad and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Nehru took a clear position: the heir to the throne should be the child born of an Indian mother," he said.

He further said that national identity and loyalty were not abstract ideas; they were deeply rooted in origin and belonging.

"If even Jawaharlal Nehru believed that a child born of a foreigner could not be trusted with the responsibility of representing the nation, why can’t the Congress see what Nehru himself said?, " he said adding that Gandhi's foregin roots is the reason why the Congress celebrate protests that humiliate India on the world stage rather than 'standing up for the country’s dignity.'