BJP counters Rahul's 'economic tsunami' warning amid Iran war: 'Stop selling panic'

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday (June 4, 2026) accused Leader of the Opposition (Lok Sabha) Rahul Gandhi of “selling panic” and promoting baseless conspiracy theories about Indian institutions and the economy, in response to his remarks on Wednesday (June 3, 2026) that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would not remain in office a year from now.

Claiming that the Modi government was facing an “institutional revolt”, at the Congress’s National Adivasi Professional Conclave, Mr. Gandhi had said an unprecedented “economic tsunami” was set to hit India as the BJP government had removed protections against international shocks, and its control over institutions had collapsed.

BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya retorted sharply through a post on X. “Every few months, he [Mr. Gandhi] unveils a new conspiracy theory. First, democracy was over. Then institutions were captured. Then election rigging. Now we are told that an Emergency is coming and an economic tsunami is around the corner. At some point, one has to ask: is Rahul Gandhi interested in facts, or is he simply manufacturing fear and chaos because he cannot explain his party’s repeated electoral failures?,” he said.