New Delhi, February 21 Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday criticized the Congress over its youth wing workers' protest at the India AI Impact Summit, saying the party has a history of "criminal activities" and is unable to accept that a person from a poor family is leading the country as prime minister.
Speaking to reporters, Naqvi urged the Congress to move beyond its obsession with transforming "democracy into a Disneyland of dynastic rule."
He emphasized that the "history of the Congress' criminal conspiracies" is not coincidental, but a deliberate choice.
Naqvi said that in 2015, when the Heads of State and representatives of 54 African countries were in India to attend the India-Africa Forum Summit, the Congress and its ilk were running an "award-returning" campaign.
"They were spreading fear about so-called intolerance and lynchings in India. They were spreading propaganda that democracy and secularism were under threat," he said.
Similarly, in 2020, when the US president was in India, the Shaheen Bagh protest took place, anti-India slogans were raised in JNU, and the bogey of a threat to the citizenship of minorities was being raised, Naqvi stated.
Naqvi alleged that during the G-20 Summit, organized with the theme and commitment to "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam," Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was engaged in spreading prejudiced propaganda against India, in an effort to damage the reputation of India's Constitution, constitutional institutions, and democracy.
When the world was enthusiastic that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had proven that "democracy can deliver," the Congress was engaged in a deliberate effort to defame the country by propagating "danger to democracy," he added.
Naqvi asserted that the Congress is still unable to accept the fact that a person from a poor family, without "feudal support," is successfully leading the country as prime minister and advancing good governance and inclusive empowerment in his third consecutive term.
He praised Prime Minister Modi for establishing India's dignity and pride globally.
His remarks came a day after a group of India Youth Congress (IYC) workers staged a brief but dramatic "shirtless" protest on Friday at an exhibition hall of Bharat Mandapam, the venue of the AI Impact Summit, raising slogans against Modi, before being taken away by security personnel.