Overview
- Sharing a Quora-sourced black-and-white photo reported to be from Shankersinh Vaghela’s 1996 swearing-in, he highlighted a young Narendra Modi sitting on the floor near L. K. Advani as an example of organisational rise.
- He tagged the Congress handle, Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Jairam Ramesh and Modi in the post, a move widely read as pointed at party leadership as the CWC met in Delhi.
- After backlash, he told reporters he remains a staunch opponent of the RSS and Prime Minister Modi and that his comment praised organisational strength only.
- The BJP amplified the episode, with spokesperson C. R. Kesavan calling it a “truth bomb” and pressing Rahul Gandhi to respond, as other party figures used it to criticise Congress’s internal functioning.
- Coverage linked the row to Singh’s 19 December call for decentralised reforms in Congress and noted that his Rajya Sabha term ends early next year, even as some Congress leaders publicly downplayed the issue.