Giriraj Singh targets opposition over '600 hours, zero proof'
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Six hundred hours and not a single piece of evidence — that is the charge Union Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh levelled at the opposition on Wednesday, 4 November 2026, in a sharp social-media broadside accusing rivals of peddling what he called nothing but 'a harvest of lies' before the country's highest institutions.
Posting on X in Hindi, Singh wrote: 'कोर्ट से लेकर राष्ट्रपति भवन तक सिर्फ भ्रम और झूठ की खेती!' — 'From the courts to Rashtrapati Bhavan, nothing but confusion and a harvest of lies!' He added that 600 hours had passed and those making the allegations had been unable to place even a single piece of evidence before the nation's supreme institutions.
The '600 hours' indictment
The specific '600 hours' figure is the rhetorical centrepiece of Singh's post — a time-stamp meant to dramatise what he frames as the opposition's failure to substantiate serious claims despite ample opportunity. The twin reference to the courts and Rashtrapati Bhavan signals that whatever allegations are in question have been pressed simultaneously through the judicial system and through the constitutional head of state, suggesting a coordinated campaign by opposition petitioners.
Indian ministers have periodically turned to social media to rebut opposition allegations by spotlighting the absence of evidence before judicial and constitutional bodies. Such volleys form a recognisable pattern in India's current political discourse — using institutional venues as a kind of proof-of-concept test: if the charge is real, the argument goes, the evidence should follow.
Singh's pattern of combative outreach
Giriraj Singh, the Lok Sabha MP from Begusarai, Bihar, has long been among the BJP's most outspoken voices online, regularly using his social-media presence to push back against what the party characterises as politically motivated narratives. His framing here — 'confusion and a harvest of lies' — is unambiguous. The post carries a video, underscoring that this is a deliberate, produced communication rather than an off-the-cuff remark.
What courts or official bodies do next — any orders, dismissals, or formal responses from the institutions Singh references — will determine whether this remains a political jab or becomes the opening frame of a larger accountability story.