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Stepping up his onslaught connected the authorities implicit the interim U.S. commercialized deal, Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Friday (February 20, 2026) said the reply to wherefore Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to a deal, wherever India gives truthful overmuch and appears to get truthful little, and marque an "abject surrender" lies successful the "grips" and "chokes" placed connected him.
The Leader of Opposition (LoP) successful the Lok Sabha besides claimed that with this deal, India is going to go a "data colony".
Why did I usage a Jiu-Jitsu analogy successful my Parliament code connected the commercialized deal?
Why were our farmers sacrificed to delight the Americans?
Why was India's vigor information compromised by allowing the US to dictate our lipid supplies?
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Mr. Gandhi, who has been attacking the BJP-led authorities and accusing it of a sell-out done the deal, posted a video connected X successful which helium invoked his caller code successful Parliament successful which helium had drawn a Jiu-Jitsu analogy.
In his station connected X, Mr. Gandhi said, "Why did I usage a Jiu-Jitsu analogy successful my Parliament code connected the commercialized deal? Why were our farmers sacrificed to delight the Americans? Why was India's vigor information compromised by allowing the US to dictate our lipid supplies?"
"Why hold to summation U.S. imports by $100 cardinal a twelvemonth without a reciprocal promise? Why did I accidental this woody could crook India into a information colony? Why would Modi ji hold to a woody wherever India gives truthful overmuch and appears to get truthful little? The reply to this abject surrender lies successful the "grips" and "chokes" placed connected the PM.
In the video, Mr. Gandhi said a batch of radical person asked him wherefore helium utilized a Jiu-Jitsu analogy successful his Parliament speech.
"The crushed I utilized the thought of a grip and a choke is due to the fact that these beryllium successful Jiu-Jitsu and however you power an hostile successful that sport. But they besides beryllium successful the governmental realm. And successful my acquisition of politics, I person seen governmental grips and governmental chokes are mostly hidden. The mean idiosyncratic cannot spot them," helium said.
"And you person to look cautiously to spot wherever the choke is being applied and wherever the grips are placed. So that was the thought down utilizing this. It expressed precise powerfully what our premier curate is going through," helium said.
The LoP said that connected the 1 manus is the transgression lawsuit against businessman Gautam Adani successful the U.S. and connected the different manus is the Epstein scandal.
"Three cardinal files not released. We each cognize that (Union minister) Hardeep Puri is progressive successful the files, we cognize Mr. Anil Ambani is progressive successful the files and we besides cognize the premier minister's sanction appears and the PM is astir apt progressive successful the files," helium said.
On the different side, determination is China, Gandhi said and referred to the unreleased publication of erstwhile Army main M.M. Naravane.
"So connected 1 broadside determination is the Chinese who are sitting successful our borderline and connected the different broadside determination is the U.S. Our PM is torn betwixt these grips. He is trapped, everybody knows it, everybody tin spot it. The occupation is that the existent grip connected Mr Narendra Modi is the fake representation that helium has built, that has been built for him, an representation that has required immense amounts of money," helium said.
"The cardinal to that representation is present successful the hands of the U.S. and that is wherefore Indian farmers are going to suffer, Indian textile is going to suffer, we volition beryllium forced to bargain imports from the U.S.
"But astir important is the data. The information that our information is being handed implicit by Mr. Narendra Modi to American companies, to the U.S., for a pittance. Mark my words, we are going to go a information colony. Why did a state of the size of India manus distant everything, including our data, textile manufacture and our agriculture sector, for what and why? The reply is successful the grips and chokes that are applied connected the PM," Mr. Gandhi added.
The Congress has alleged that Modi has "surrendered" earlier U.S. President Donald Trump successful agreeing to the deal, which, it claimed, volition "devastate" the livelihoods of crores of farmers crossed states and sacrifice India's vigor security, integer sovereignty and economical self-reliance.
It said commercialized agreements should not go a way to slavery by "sacrificing a country's sovereignty", and asserted that nationalist involvement cannot beryllium mortgaged nether the guise of a commercialized pact.
