New Delhi, February 21 On Saturday, BJP leaders and workers held a demonstration near the Congress headquarters on Akbar Road here against a "shirtless" protest by the latter's youth wing at the AI Impact Summit.
The BJP protesters, carrying placards and chanting slogans, criticized the Congress and its leader, Rahul Gandhi, calling them "traitors" for allegedly damaging the country's image.
Leading the protest, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva and Lok Sabha MP Manoj Tiwari termed the IYC's demonstration as an act of "treason."
Addressing the protesters, Sachdeva said that the Congress and its leader, Rahul Gandhi, are unable to accept the country's success. While opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, they have now started opposing India itself.
"The protest by hired Congress goons tarnished the country's image on the international stage, and every Indian who takes pride in the country's success is ashamed by it," he said.
Several BJP leaders, including state general secretary Vishnu Mittal and MLA Raj Kumar Bhatia, along with a large number of workers, gathered for the protest on Man Singh Road.
Police personnel stopped them at a barricade as they tried to march towards the Congress headquarters on Akbar Road.
On Friday, a group of Indian Youth Congress workers staged a dramatic "shirtless protest" at the AI Impact Summit exhibition hall in Delhi's Bharat Mandapam, walking around holding t-shirts with slogans against the government and the India-US trade deal printed on them.
Following the incident, the Delhi Police arrested four IYC workers in connection with the protest at the Summit venue, with a senior officer saying that an investigation into a wider conspiracy is underway.
The AI Impact Summit, inaugurated by Modi, concluded on Friday.
Several heads of state, global AI leaders, academics and researchers, heads of global tech giants, and philanthropists attended the massive meet held at Bharat Mandapam.