New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has once again challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to an open debate, this time directly tagging CRPF personnel in a post on social media platform X.
In his post, Gandhi wrote: “Dear CRPF personnel, your faces said it all — you do not believe the Prime Minister’s lies. He called us Naxalites. My challenge remains. Let him debate me on who is anti-national and who is acting at the behest of foreign powers. Any time, any place. I guarantee that after the debate, the Prime Minister will not have the courage to stand before even one jawan.”
This is the sixth time in the past eight days that Gandhi has challenged Modi to a debate.
Modi’s remarks on Naxalism in Bastar
The latest exchange comes after Modi celebrated Diwali with security personnel in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. Gandhi also shared a video of the celebrations.
After celebrating Diwali with the security forces, Modi addressed the personnel and said it was the first Diwali in which every district of the country was free from Naxalism.
However, he added that the threat had not been completely eliminated. While armed Naxalites had been wiped out from the forests, he warned of a continuing threat from what he described as “ideological Naxalites”.
Modi claimed that such elements had infiltrated several political organisations and needed to be identified and countered. He alleged that they were instigating people against the Constitution and democracy.
