New Delhi: Indian Youth Congress workers disrupted the final day of the AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam here Friday, staging a topless protest and chanting “PM is compromised” while waving anti-Modi posters, reports said.
A video of the protest by the Indian Youth Congress has gone viral on social media, showing several protestors walking into the venue while holding their t-shirts in their hands. They also shouted anti-Modi slogans, echoing the party’s protests against the India-US trade deal in the Parliament recently.
At least four people were taken into custody while a senior police officer told news agency PTI that around 10 people were detained in this connection.
“They were removed immediately and were taken to Tilak Marg police station. No one will be allowed to breach the law and order situation,” the officer said.
“Today, Youth Congress members went to the AI Summit and raised slogans, ‘PM is compromised’.
This anger isn’t just from our Youth Congress members. It’s from every young person who is unemployed today, and every single one of them knows that our Prime Minister is compromised,” Youth Congress national president Uday Bhanu Chib told news agency ANI.
Calling the India-US trade deal as harmful for the farmers, Chib said that only “America will benefit” from the agreement.
“This trade deal with the US, we all know, will harm our farmers and people. Only America will benefit. It’s our duty to raise their (youth) voice. Our country has democracy. We can hold peaceful protests anywhere,” he added.
In response, BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla hit out at the Congress party branding it as “characterless, brainless, and emotionless.”
Poonawalla accused the Congress of undermining national progress and said this was a protest against national achievements.
“Congress has once again proven that for them, AI isn’t Ambitious India, Artificial Intelligence, Aspirational India. For them, AI is anti-India. This isn’t the INC, this is the ANC, the anti-National Congress. The AI Summit is being praised worldwide…,” Poonawalla said.
