‘PM Modi torn between grips of US & China’: Rahul returns with jiu-jitsu analogy; explains why he used it in Parliament | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Chief of Opposition on Friday unpacked his fiery “jiu-jitsu” analogy from the Finances Session speech, detailing the “political grips and chokes” squeezing Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a video submit on X, Gandhi highlighted the Gautam Adani indictment, plus the Epstein information that point out Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Anil Ambani. He additionally slammed the India-US commerce deal as lopsided, closely favoring American pursuits over India’s.“On one facet, there’s China sitting on our border, and on the opposite facet, there’s the USA. And our Prime Minister is torn between these grips. He is trapped,” Rahul stated, explaining why he used the jiu-jitsu analogy in his Parliament speech in the course of the Finances Session.

“Why did I take advantage of a Jiu-Jitsu analogy in my Parliament speech on the commerce deal? The purpose I used the thought of grips and a choke is as a result of these exist in the game of Jiu-Jitsu and it is the way you management an opponent in this sport,” he stated.“However in addition they exist in the political realm. In my expertise of politics, political grips and chokes are largely hidden. The common individual cannot see them. And you need to look fastidiously to see the place the choke is being utilized. It expressed very powerfully what our Prime Minister goes by way of,” he added.In a submit on X, he raised a number of questions: “Why had been our farmers sacrificed to please the Individuals? Why was India’s vitality safety compromised by permitting the US to dictate our oil provides? Why agree to extend US imports by $100 billion a 12 months with out a reciprocal promise? Why did I say this deal may flip India into an information colony?”“Why would Modi ji comply with a deal the place India offers a lot and seems to get so little?” he requested, earlier than he went to answer “the reply to this abject give up lies in the ‘grips’ and ‘chokes’ positioned on the PM.”“However most essential is the info. The incontrovertible fact that our information is being handed over by Mr Narendra Modi to American corporations to the USA for a pittance. And mark my phrases, we’re going to grow to be an information colony,” he added.Earlier, Rahul had criticised the federal government over the organisation of the AI Summit, calling it a “chaotic PR train” and alleging that as a substitute of harnessing India’s expertise and information, the occasion put Indian information in danger whereas selling Chinese language merchandise.On Friday, members of the Indian Youth Congress staged a shirtless protest at Bharat Mandapam in opposition to Prime Minister Modi, concentrating on the AI Affect Summit and accusing him of being “compromised.” As half of the demonstration, get together employees took off their shirts to sign dissent.