The Congress party has once again found itself mired in controversy, accused of prioritizing political opportunism over national interest. Senior Congress leader and Member of Parliament Jairam Ramesh recently shared a misleading claim on social media platform X, alleging that Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir was invited to the U.S. Army Day parade in Washington, D.C. Ramesh suggested this was a diplomatic failure for India and a blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However, the narrative quickly unraveled when the White House clarified that no such invitation had been extended, exposing the claim as false.
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This incident has sparked significant backlash, with many questioning not only the credibility of the Congress party but also that of its affiliated media supporters.
This isn’t the first time Jairam Ramesh has faced accusations of spreading misinformation. His consistent pattern of promoting misleading narratives to target opposition figures has been widely noted, including by former Congress veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad. In an interview with a private TV channel, Azad directly criticized Ramesh, accusing him of habitually spreading falsehoods to stay in the spotlight.
The anchor during the interview read Ramesh’s post from X, “Jairam Ramesh has tweeted, you must have seen. Everyone and many people in the Congress have come out and criticized what you said. Jairam Ramesh tweeted, ‘A man who has been treated by the greatest respect by the Congress leadership has betrayed it by his vicious personal attacks which reveals his true character. GNA’s DNA has been modified or MODI-fied.'”
In response, Ghulam Nabi Azad said, “I don’t know the person, he is a person whose biodata in Congress party nobody knows. Nobody knows where, which state does he belong? which district he belong? which party he belonged to? He was never in Youth Congress, NSUI, he was never in Congress, he was not in block committee, district committee, state committee, PCC. All of a sudden by doing these tweets we saw him becoming MP. We saw him becoming cabinet minister. And he is the one in cabinet minister who would put his telephone on, so that the media people will listen. That is the type of person. He is the person in a house sleeps with the laptop and gives messages. Earlier, he used to plant messages and plant stories against the government, against the opposition leaders. Now he’s planting stories against me. So many dirty stories.”
He further added, “He is 24/7 doing all these planting of stories. He is a great story planter, you know, very famous for planting stories then and now. So, his job is this that’s why he was made the media head.”
Biodata of Jairam Ramesh 🔥 pic.twitter.com/wITCVhInO6
— Rishi Bagree (@rishibagree) June 19, 2023
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