Congress leaders take out protest against Adani in Parliament Photo: PTI Congress leaders take out protest against Adani in Parliament Photo: PTI 
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of ‘importing a foreign agenda’ to derail India’s growth trajectory. Speaking in Parliament during the Winter Session, one saffron-party lawmaker called the Leader of Opposition (LoP) a ‘traitor’ over his ties to the Soros Foundation.
The Congress has protested, saying the BJP was using ‘slanderous’ language against Gandhi.
In Lok Sabha, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey spoke in Parliament to question the Congress Party’s ties with people associated with the Soros Foundation and other foreign figures who have criticised India in the past.
Dubey said, “Was Salil Shetty not in Bharat Jodo Yatra? Is he not an employee of the Soros Foundation? Did they not meet Ilhan Omar, Barbara Lee, or Ro Khanna, who wrote a letter in America asking to boycott the PM and not address him in Parliament? Don't they want to create Khalistan and divide Kashmir? They meet all the elements in foreign countries who want to break India.”
On the same day, in the Rajya Sabha, BJP member Sudhanshu Trivedi said that “foreign hands” were orchestrating a concerted effort to derail the Viksit Bharat agenda.
The allegations came after Congress leaders wore stickers alleging a nexus between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Adani Group inside and outside the House the same morning. Gandhi, along with others, had put a sticker on his T-shirt saying “Modi, Adani Ek Hain.” When this was brought to his attention, Speaker Om Birla warned the Congress MP that such stickers were not in line with the members’ dress code which only allowed for a Tricolour/ Indian flag to be added to their attire.
George Soros Says Turmoil At Adani May Weaken Modi Government In what appears to be a retaliation, Dubey began his Zero Hour intervention with a slew of allegations including that the Congress was working with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a global journalism project backed by Soros’s Open Society Foundation. The Foundation was trying to disrupt the Indian Parliament and derail the government. He also asked 10 questions of Gandhi.
Separately, BJP Lok Sabha MP Sambit Patra accused Gandhi of being part of a “triangle” with Soros and OCCRP that planned to destabilise India.
“We are going to talk about this dangerous triangle which is trying to destabilise India. In this triangle, on one side is George Soros from America, some agencies of America; on the other side of the triangle is a big news portal named OCCRP... the last and the most important side of the triangle is Rahul Gandhi, a traitor of the highest order. I am not scared to say this word... I don’t have any hesitation to call the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha a traitor,” he said.
The BJP also posted on X showing a morphed picture of Soros and Gandhi with the words “foreign agenda, local delivery” after the Parliament session ended.
The BJP’s MPs’ remarks were met with a furious Congress party, whose members came to the House well, while shouting slogans and demanding an apology from Dubey for using “slanderous language.”
The Winter Session of Parliamentphlboss, which began on November 25, has been marred by the Opposition’s protests over several issues, including the Adani bribery case, Manipur, and violence in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh. Even though the house proceedings continued in the second week, protests over Adani row also continued into the second week.