Amit Shah takes ‘kaala chashma’ jibe at Rahul Gandhi

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday (March 21, 2025) in a sharp jibe at Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi while speaking in the Rajya Sabha on counter-terrorism operations and development in Jammu and Kashmir.

"If someone is sitting with kaala chashma [black glasses] on, how is it possible to show them the development,?" Mr. Shah asked.

Further responding to Mr. Gandhi's remarks during his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kashmir in 2023, Mr. Shah said, "One leader went on a foot march, went to Kashmir, played Holi with snow with his karyakartas and then claimed he saw terrorists from afar."