Narendra Modi’s political career will be over after debate with me, says Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “political career will be over” after a debate with him.

In a social media post, Gandhi challenged Modi to bring a teleprompter and a judge of his choice to the debate.

“The country wants to know who is the real anti-national,” he said.

Gandhi has repeatedly challenged Modi to an open debate and previously claimed that he could establish in just five minutes that the prime minister was a “traitor”.

मोदी जी, अपने ही गोदी मीडिया के दिवाली मिलन में भी टेलीप्रॉम्प्टर?

लोग आपके, मंच आपका, माहौल आपका - फिर भी स्क्रिप्ट चाहिए थी। लगता है दबाव में घबरा गए हैं।

ख़ैर, कोई बात नहीं। मुझसे बहस में भी टेलीप्रॉम्प्टर ले आइए, जज भी अपनी पसंद का बैठा लीजिए।

बस आइए तो सही। देश जानना… pic.twitter.com/z2AzakkS90

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) November 13, 2026

Responding to questions about why he was demanding a public debate when the Bharatiya Janata Party had said the exchange could take place in Parliament, Gandhi said that he was not allowed to speak in the House and that his microphone had been switched off several times in the past.

He said he had been prevented from speaking about the contentious farm laws, alleged vote theft, the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, border tensions with China, former Army chief Manoj Mukund Naravane’s book and the Epstein files.

“I want a one-on-one debate,” Gandhi said. “I don’t want a debate entailing long speeches.”

He added that he would have no objection to Gautam Adani, chairperson of the Adani Group, or Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, being appointed as the judge. The RSS is the ideological parent of the BJP.

‘Modi taps my phone’

Gandhi also alleged that Modi was tapping his phone. He claimed that the device contained evidence to support his allegations against the government.

He was responding to a question about the evidence behind his claim that Modi was being “controlled by foreign powers”.

“The prime minister knows it because he taps my phone,” Gandhi said. “The one-on-one debate will prove who is working at the behest of foreign forces, who is an anti-national and since when he has been an anti-national.”

Gandhi has alleged in the past that Modi is “compromised” and listens to orders from the United States “like an obedient servant”.

Written by Anamika Pathak. Edited by Tanya Shrivastava.