Political tempers flared in Delhi as BJP’s Shazia Ilmi tore into Rahul Gandhi’s alarming X post on textile exports, branding him a serial spreader of economic myths.
Gandhi claimed 50% US tariffs spell doom for Indian textile firms, with jobs vanishing, factories idling, and orders drying up—all hallmarks of economic mismanagement.
Ilmi, in an IANS interview, portrayed Gandhi as economically illiterate. ‘He skips newspapers and facts. A quick search would show GST 2.0’s magic since September 2025—streamlined duties, investment boom, export records,’ she detailed.
‘Textiles languished under Congress; we’ve turned it around with GDP gains. Gandhi’s foreign-pleasing ‘dead economy’ fiction persists despite evidence,’ she hammered.
Ilmi spotlighted Gandhi’s rift with Shashi Tharoor, skipped in Kerala rallies. ‘Paranoia fuels his purge of seniors. Tharoor’s Operation Sindoor solidarity exposed Congress’s leaderless state—a glaring weakness.’
Ilmi lambasted Mamata Banerjee’s Netaji equivalence as brazen. ‘Netaji embodied revolutionary zeal for azadi. Mamata trashes Constitution, spurns agencies, ignores propriety. Her antics mock his legacy—utterly deplorable,’ she signed off.