Iran Israel War crisis: Rahul Gandhi slams Modi for Covid reference, says PM Modi has forgotten tragedies of that time

Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, said, “India’s foreign policy is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal policy and is universally treated as a joke,” even as he targeted Mr. Modi for comparing the conflict in West Asia and its fallout to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Interacting with journalists at the Parliament building, Mr Gandhi said the Prime Minister appeared to have forgotten what happened during the pandemic and “the kind of tragedies the country has witnessed”.

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“Yesterday, [Mr. Modi] He made an irrelevant speech. He is the Prime Minister of India, he has to look like the Prime Minister of India. He doesn’t have a position [on the crisis]”This is just the beginning; LPG, petrol, fertilisers, all these pose problems. Modi ji said the COVID-like time has come. He has forgotten what happened then, how many people died, what kind of tragedies took place,” the opposition leader added.

‘Agreed’

Mr. Gandhi said that if the Prime Minister is compromised, the country’s foreign policy will also be compromised.

“Our foreign policy is Prime Minister Modi’s personal foreign policy. You see the consequences of this, everyone sees it as a universal joke.” [U.S. President] Donald Trump knows exactly what Mr. Modi can do and what Mr. Modi cannot do. “If the Prime Minister is in danger, our foreign policy will also be in danger, that is clear,” he said.

Although the government has convened an all-party meeting on West Asia on Wednesday, Mr Gandhi said he could not attend as he had schedules to attend in poll-bound Kerala.

The opposition leader said, “They called all parties to a meeting. There should be a discussion, but you made a structural mistake. You broke the structure, this cannot be fixed. The Prime Minister cannot do this. I can give it to you in writing, the Prime Minister will do what America and Israel say. He will not work for the benefit of India and its farmers, he will do what America and Israel say.”

Pakistan’s ‘comfortable’ Trump ties

Separately, Congress also targeted the government over reports that Pakistan may act as a mediator between Iran and the United States. “If these reports are true, they represent a serious setback and setback for India, all attributable to the self-styled Vishwaguru,” Congress communications chief Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X.

Mr. Ramesh said Mr. Trump hosted Pakistani Marshal Asim Munir at the White House twice and repeatedly embraced him. “The Pakistani establishment has developed a warm relationship with President Trump’s inner circle. Mr. Modi’s ill-advised visit to Israel, which ended just two days before the start of unprovoked US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran, will go down in our political history as a disastrous choice, one that forced us to retreat from a position where we could and should have mediated,” he added.