June 6, 2025: Rahul Gandhi, a Congress leader, reiterated his "surrender" jab at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. The BJP had recently expressed fury over it.
Days after accusing Modi of surrendering in front of US President Donald Trump, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha used the phrase at a "Samvidhan Suraksha Sammelan" (symposium for safeguarding the Constitution) in Bihar.
Notably, Gandhi had stated in Bhopal earlier this week that Trump warned Modi to "Narendra, surrender" during the height of the armed confrontation with Pakistan.
The BJP was offended by the comment; national president Jagat Prakash Nadda and spokesman Sudhanshu Trivedi both called it "treason" and stated it was far more disrespectful than anything terrorists like Hafiz Saeed could have said about India.
The former president of the Congress, however, insisted during his speech in Rajgir: "I have been fighting the RSS and they capitulate too readily." Writing a request for mercy does not take them much time. Of course, WhatsApp may have replaced pen and paper as a result of modern technology.
The reference was to mercy requests that RSS ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar wrote to the British Raj when he was being held in the Andaman Islands' cells jail.
The Congress leader claimed that when Modi, a former RSS pracharak, acceded to the demand for a caste census, it was because of an apparent tendency to submit.
Gandhi said, "Just take a look at how Modi claims there is no caste and labels himself an OBC." He added that there are two caste census models.
One is the BJP, where bureaucrats make all of the decisions behind closed doors, with very few members of the underprivileged castes.

Gandhi stated, "The second paradigm is that of (Congress-ruled) Telangana where Dalits' agencies and leaders are taken on board and survey respondents freely express their opinions regarding matters like untouchability."