Nadda fires at Congress: 'Blames teacher when it fails'
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A schoolchild who passes takes all the credit — but when he fails, he blames the teacher. That, Union Health Minister and BJP national president J. P. Nadda declared on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, is precisely how the Congress party and the INDIA alliance conduct themselves in Indian politics.
Posting in Hindi under the hashtag #SaveDemocracyRemoveAnarchy, Nadda wrote: 'कांग्रेस पार्टी और उसके नेता प्रतिपक्ष एक अबोध बालक की तरह व्यवहार करते हैं' ('The Congress party and its Leader of the Opposition behave like an innocent, naive child'). He sharpened the metaphor: just as a schoolboy who scrapes through an exam boasts of his own brilliance, yet blames the teacher the moment he fails, so too does the INDIA alliance operate — claiming victories as its own genius and attributing every setback to institutional failure or sabotage.
The 'anarchist' charge and BJP's recurring frame
The attack is not a one-off. The BJP has built a consistent political narrative across recent electoral cycles: that opposition alliances — first the UPA, now the INDIA bloc — disrupt Parliament, delegitimise electoral outcomes they lose, and dress up obstructionism as democratic resistance. Nadda's schoolroom analogy translates that charge into a vernacular image sharp enough to cut through: the alliance, he implies, has never developed the maturity to accept accountability.
Congress is the anchor of the INDIA alliance, which was assembled to mount a unified challenge against the BJP-led government. The coalition has leaned on themes of institutional preservation and democratic backsliding — arguments Nadda's post directly inverts, positioning the opposition itself as the source of 'anarchy.'
Why 'Leader of the Opposition' is the specific target
By singling out the neta pratipaksha — the formal Leader of the Opposition — Nadda's salvo lands with extra precision. The post signals that the BJP is contesting not just Congress's politics but the credibility of the opposition's institutional role itself, arguing that the alliance weaponises procedural and democratic language selectively, deploying it only when convenient.
The hashtag #SaveDemocracyRemoveAnarchy frames the BJP as the defensive, stabilising force — a rhetorical inversion that has become central to the ruling party's pitch ahead of electoral contests.
Whether Congress and INDIA alliance spokespersons respond in kind — or attempt to flip the 'democracy defender' label back — will set the next beat of this exchange. The real audience, as always, is the voter watching the schoolroom from outside.