Indian National Congress veteran Ashok Gehlot has asserted that the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi envisaged the potential of artificial intelligence, calling the technology “Rajiv Gandhi’s dream.” Gehlot’s remarks echo the party’s longstanding claim that Gandhi laid the groundwork for India’s information-technology expansion by championing computers in the late 1980s. Bharatiya Janata Party figures quickly dismissed the comments. National spokesperson Ajay Alok questioned the historical accuracy of linking Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1991, to AI, while Rajasthan minister Jawahar Singh Bedham suggested Gehlot’s remarks reflected internal strains within the Congress. BJP social-media voices also mocked the claim, underscoring the parties’ continuing battle over the late leader’s technological legacy.
#WATCH | Jaipur | On former Rajasthan Chief Minister and Congress leader Ashok Gehlot, Rajasthan Minister Jawahar Singh Bedham says, “He is making a lot of statements which might be happening due to Congress’ focus on new leadership that has triggered internal conflicts in the https://t.co/7jUezZcXoU
New Delhi: BJP National Spokesperson Ajay Alok says, "Ashok Gehlot, maybe he's suffering from some new memory-refreshing disease. He was saying that artificial intelligence was Rajiv Gandhi’s dream. Rajiv Gandhi passed away in 1991. At that time, I don’t even know if anyone in https://t.co/OqVjuFkHPM
Credit War over AI 'Miracle of AI was Rajiv Gandhi's dream,' Congress leader Ashok Gehlot Rajiv Gandhi had great foresight. It was he who introduced computers, and even back then, the BJP questioned and opposed his decision: Cong's Rashid Alvi Gehlot Ji wanted to convey that https://t.co/ZOYltDSTVz