India, Feb. 20 -- Leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party have cornered the Congress following a shirtless protest by the Indian Youth Congress workers at the AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam on Friday. Track AI summit updates

Latest to join the BJP chorus against the protest, which several of the leading party leaders have blamed on Rahul Gandhi, is former minister Smiriti Irani who made attacked the grand old party with the Hindi proverb "khisiyani billi khamba noche". It translates literally to "frustrated cat scratches the pole", a proverb used when someone takes out anger or frustration at bystanders or objects.

"It takes rare political bankruptcy to convert a global summit into a stage for embarrassing the nation before the ...