Rahul Gandhi to address media tomorrow; ‘Hydrogen Bomb’ agenda? Speculation rife

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will address a special press conference on 18 September, the Congress party anounced on Wednesday evening. The conference will be held at 10 am at Indira Bhawan Auditorium in the national capital, the party said.

The agenda of the press conference was not revealed sparking specualtion. Rahul Gandhi's last press confernece was on 7 August in which he cited an analysis of data from a Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka from the 2024 general elections to allege that the Election Commission is colluding with the BJP to “steal elections” and called it a “crime” against the Constitution.

The press conference trigerred a political row with both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Election Commision (EC) targetting Gandhi over allegations.

The Congress, however, took off a campaign called ‘vote chori’ from the press coference. Gandhi even led a Vote Adhikar rally in poll-bound Bihar on the ‘vote chori’ plank.

Recently, Rahul Gandhi urged BJP leaders not to panic, warning that a “hydrogen bomb” of truth is coming soon. Gandhi emphasised that the manipulation of votes is real and that the upcoming evidence will make it clear.

"The BJP people showed black flags to us. I want to tell them, listen carefully. Have you heard of anything bigger than an atom bomb? What is bigger than that; it is a hydrogen bomb. In Mahadevapura, we had shown an atom bomb. BJP people, be ready, a hydrogen bomb is coming. People are soon going to find out your (BJP) reality of vote chori," Gandhi said at a mega rally in Patna after his foot-march through Bihar earlier this month.

The Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha said the ₹1,600-crore initial relief announced by the Central government is "grave injustice" to the people of Punjab and asserted that the crisis demands a bolder response.

"The ₹1,600 crore initial relief announced by the Union government does grave injustice to the people of Punjab. Estimates suggest that the state has suffered a loss of at least 20,000 crore.

"This crisis demands a bolder response. I request the government to facilitate a quick assessment of the damage and deliver a comprehensive relief package," Gandhi said in his letter to PM Modi.

The Congress leader said the catastrophic floods have ravaged Punjab as he himself witnessed the shocking devastation.