Rahul on ‘compromised mission’, has links with ‘pro-Pak elements’: Nitin Nabin

BJP's Nitin Nabin accuses Rahul Gandhi of links with pro-Pakistan elements and a longstanding "compromised mission" against India.

BJP president Nitin Nabin on Wednesday (February 25, 2026) launched a blistering attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of undertaking foreign visits without informing security agencies in India, and having close links with “anti-India and pro-Pakistan” elements.

Mr. Nabin charged Mr. Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition, with being on a “compromised mission” that began with his great grandfather and first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and “continued through generations”.

The BJP president’s comments come amid a row over the Indian Youth Congress activists staging a shirtless protest at the AI Summit in Delhi last week, with the slogan “PM is compromised”, an allusion to the proposed trade deal with the U.S. allegedly under pressure from the Donald Trump administration. “Today, I wish to expose the compromised mission of the Nehru-Gandhi family, which has traded national interests for personal gains. I wish to expose Rahul Gandhi, who is trutting about like a babbar sher (lion),” the 45-year-old Bihar MLA, who was made the BJP president a month ago, told reporters.

Mr. Nabin raked up Nehru’s alleged reference to the country’s burgeoning population as a “liability” and the defeat in the 1962 war with China, and charged Indira Gandhi with “giving up Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, after defeating Pakistan in 1971” as examples of the “compromised mission”.

He also alleged that Rajiv Gandhi, the father of Rahul and a former Prime Minister, had made use of the Bofors gun deal to “fatten up his personal bank balance”.

“The compromised mission continued under Rahul’s mother Sonia Gandhi, who functioned as a ‘super prime minister’ from 2004 to 2014, compromising the authority of the top constitutional post,” the BJP president asserted.