New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi’s latest foreign visit has triggered a political row, with the Bharatiya Janata Party accusing the Congress of misleading the public about his destination.
While the Congress maintains that the Rae Bareli MP and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha travelled to London, BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya Tuesday questioned its version of events and claimed Gandhi boarded a flight to Bahrain instead.
“The Congress claims that Rahul Gandhi has left for London, but the buzz is that he boarded a flight to Bahrain. There are nearly a dozen direct flights from New Delhi to London. Besides, no one flies to London with a boarding pass for Bahrain,” Malviya said in a post on X. “The Congress is LYING. The real question is: WHY?”
In another post earlier Tuesday, the senior BJP leader also questioned the frequency and secrecy of Gandhi’s foreign trips.
Rahul Gandhi was on a secret foreign holiday just last week. Now, he has flown abroad again — to yet another undisclosed location.
Why these frequent disappearances? What is so compelling that keeps him away from the country so often? As the Leader of the Opposition, he owes the…
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) June 24, 2025
The Congress was quick to respond, dismissing the BJP’s claims as part of a disinformation campaign led from the top.
“The PMO is, as usual, up to its dirty tricks. It knows nothing else,” Congress communications department head Pawan Khera said in a post on X.
“Rahul Gandhi has gone to London to attend the graduation ceremony of his niece and will be back shortly.”
The Congress leader’s frequent overseas visits have often drawn criticism from the BJP, which accuses him of evading political responsibility. The Congress party has defended such trips as personal.
(Edited by Sanya Mathur)