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Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) deed retired astatine the authorities implicit the apprehension of Youth Congress president Uday Bhanu Chib and different Indian Youth Congress (IYC) members, saying it is reflective of "dictatorial tendencies and cowardice".
Mr. Gandhi said helium is arrogant of his chap members of the Youth Congress, who person fearlessly raised their voices successful nationalist involvement against the "compromised PM".
In a station successful Hindi connected X, Mr. Gandhi said peaceful protestation is the Congress' humanities heritage. "It is successful our humor and a antiauthoritarian close of each Indian," the Leader of Opposition (LoP) successful the Lok Sabha said.
Mr. Gandhi alleged that nationalist interests person been compromised successful the commercialized woody with the United States. This statement volition harm our farmers and textile manufacture and manus implicit our information to the U.S., helium claimed.
"The apprehension of Youth Congress President Uday Bhanu Chib and other IYC members for exposing this information to the federation is reflective of dictatorial tendencies and cowardice," Mr. Gandhi said.
"The Congress Party and I basal firmly with our chap members. Showing the reflector of information to powerfulness is not a crime, it is patriotism. Don't beryllium acrophobic — the information and the Constitution are with us," Mr. Gandhi said, utilizing the hashtag 'I Stand With Youth Congress'.
Mr. Chib was arrested by Delhi Police successful transportation with the shirtless protestation staged by a radical of younker helping members astatine the AI Impact Summit present past week, officials said connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026).
Police person besides stepped up information crossed cardinal locations successful the superior successful anticipation of imaginable protests pursuing Mr. Chib's arrest, which took the full fig of radical held successful the lawsuit to eight.
On Friday (February 20, 2026), a radical of IYC workers staged a melodramatic protestation wrong Hall No. 5 of the AI acme venue by removing their shirts to uncover T-shirts printed with slogans against the authorities and the India-U.S. interim commercialized deal, earlier being whisked distant by information personnel.
Police said the accused had registered online and obtained QR codes to summation introduction into the venue. The incidental triggered a governmental slugfest, with the BJP calling it a "shameful enactment to tarnish India's representation connected the planetary stage", and the IYC defending it arsenic a "peaceful" objection aimed astatine safeguarding nationalist interests.
