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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Thursday (June 4, 2026) accused Leader of the Opposition (Lok Sabha) Rahul Gandhi of “selling panic” and promoting baseless conspiracy theories astir Indian institutions and the economy, successful effect to his remarks connected Wednesday (June 3, 2026) that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would not stay successful bureau a twelvemonth from now.
Claiming that the Modi authorities was facing an “institutional revolt”, astatine the Congress’s National Adivasi Professional Conclave, Mr. Gandhi had said an unprecedented “economic tsunami” was acceptable to deed India arsenic the BJP authorities had removed protections against planetary shocks, and its power implicit institutions had collapsed.
BJP IT Cell caput Amit Malviya retorted sharply done a station connected X. “Every fewer months, helium [Mr. Gandhi] unveils a caller conspiracy theory. First, ideology was over. Then institutions were captured. Then predetermination rigging. Now we are told that an Emergency is coming and an economical tsunami is astir the corner. At immoderate point, 1 has to ask: is Rahul Gandhi funny successful facts, oregon is helium simply manufacturing fearfulness and chaos due to the fact that helium cannot explicate his party’s repeated electoral failures?,” helium said.
“According to Rahul Gandhi, the Chief Election Commissioner, quality chiefs, judges, institutions, and practically everyone successful the strategy person been secretly moving for him for the past 3 years, perpetually feeding him information. Yet, contempt having this bonzer network, his enactment keeps losing elections and shrinking politically. Not a azygous allegation of predetermination rigging has been proven successful court. Not one,” said Mr. Malviya.
Stating that Mr. Gandhi’s assertion astir impending “economic tsunami” was thing but a “classic fear-mongering”, helium said: “If India’s daze absorbers had genuinely been removed, wherefore is the system continuing to amusement resilience contempt elevated crude prices, struggle successful West Asia, proviso concatenation disruptions, planetary fiscal tightening and persistent geopolitical uncertainty?”
‘Stronger reserves’
He said though India was facing an outer shock, it was not defenceless arsenic the daze absorbers had been built implicit the past decade. The state was facing planetary headwinds with “stronger reserves, little inflation, amended infrastructure spending, stronger home demand, grounds FDI inflows, important nutrient buffers and targeted enactment for MSMEs [Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises] and industry,” said Mr. Malviya.
Listing the indicators of India’s resilient economy, helium cited the latest information connected e-way measure generation, Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index, and energy consumption.
“Urban car income roseate 11.8% successful April, portion agrarian car income grew an adjacent stronger 13.8%. Retail ostentation remained contained astatine 3.48% successful April — beneath the RBI’s 4% target. Rice and wheat buffer stocks stood astatine 817.53 lakh tonnes astatine the extremity of April, providing a beardown nutrient information cushion. Gross FDI inflows touched a historical precocious of $94.5 cardinal successful FY26,” helium said.
“Forex reserves stay comfortable...Strong services exports proceed to enactment outer stableness and constrictive the commercialized deficit,” helium said. The BJP person said erstwhile planetary crude prices surged, excise work cuts connected petrol and diesel cushioned consumers and supply-side interventions and export restrictions were utilized whenever necessary.
Quoting the figures from the Congress-led UPA period, helium said: “That was the existent removal of daze absorbers...The Modi authorities strengthened India before, during and aft repeated shocks, COVID-19, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, crude spikes, planetary complaint hikes, supply-chain disruptions and present instability successful West Asia.”
Despite facing aggregate achromatic swan events, India had remained the world’s fastest-growing large economy, moved from the “Fragile Five” to the apical 5 economies, Mr. Malviya said.
