PM's defeat done deal: Rahul says Opposition has found its footing after 2014 shock

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Rahul Gandhi told the Bharat Summit that the Opposition would defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His address linked that confidence to public outreach while raising election, institutional and economic concerns.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday declared that defeating Prime Minister Narendra Modi was now a "done deal", expressing confidence that the Opposition would remove the BJP leader from power and pointing to what he described as growing fear within the ruling establishment.

Addressing the Bharat Summit 2026 in Hyderabad, Rahul Gandhi said the political battle against the BJP had reached a turning point, adding that the change was already visible on the streets and in the national capital.

"I can tell you already, with confidence, that we are going to defeat PM Modi, and we are going to get rid of PM Modi. And you can see it, you can see it on our streets, you can see it in Delhi, you can see it in the fear that the Prime Minister and Home Minister Amit Shah have. This is already a done deal," he said.

Rahul Gandhi's remarks came as he outlined what he described as the Opposition's journey from being overwhelmed by the BJP's political dominance after 2014 to finding a way to challenge it through direct engagement with people. He said the Opposition had taken nearly a decade to understand the scale of the political transformation that followed the BJP's rise to power.

"I would be lying if I said the Opposition was not in shock. We were in shock, not for a year, not for two years, but for an entire decade," he said.

Explaining how the Congress responded to the BJP's political and financial dominance, Rahul Gandhi said conventional methods of political communication had stopped working. He claimed that the ruling party had built an overwhelming presence across television, social media and other platforms, making it difficult for Opposition parties to reach voters.

"Every instrument that we were accustomed to and that had once been effective, the media, press conferences, interviews and public meetings, none of them worked," he said.

Rahul Gandhi said the Congress eventually realised that its biggest strength lay in establishing a direct connection with people rather than…

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