{"id":195140,"date":"2026-02-17T20:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=195140"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:08:43","slug":"congress-calls-delhi-ai-summit-a-global-embarrassment-due-to-modi-govts-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/02\/17\/congress-calls-delhi-ai-summit-a-global-embarrassment-due-to-modi-govts-incompetence.html","title":{"rendered":"Congress calls Delhi AI Summit a \u201cglobal embarrassment\u201d due to Modi govt\u2019s incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-195143\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-17-at-8.56.32-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-17-at-8.56.32-PM.png 492w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-17-at-8.56.32-PM-387x220.png 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><strong>#IndianSmaAI_Summit<\/strong><br \/>\nNew Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has strongly criticized the BJP-led Indian government over the ongoing AI Impact Summit in Delhi, calling it a \u201cPR-hungry\u201d exercise that turned a global opportunity into \u201cutter chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, in a post on X, Kharge said the summit, which could have showcased India\u2019s digital and AI leadership, instead left participants distressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat could have been a global showpiece for India\u2019s AI capabilities has turned into utter chaos and mismanagement by this PR-hungry government,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Kharge highlighted that founders, exhibitors, and visitors faced major difficulties from day one, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s gatecrash for a photo op, lack of food and water, theft of products, restrictions on laptops and personal devices, failure of the Digi Yatra system, and mandatory cash payments in place of digital\/UPI transactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFounders were forced to pay huge sums without basic facilities,\u201d he added, calling the situation \u201ca global embarrassment\u201d for India caused by the Modi government\u2019s incompetence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#IndianSmaAI_Summit New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has strongly criticized the BJP-led Indian government over the ongoing AI Impact Summit in Delhi, calling it a \u201cPR-hungry\u201d exercise that turned a global opportunity into \u201cutter chaos.\u201d According to Kashmir Media Service, in a post on X, Kharge said the summit, which could have showcased India\u2019s digital &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-17-at-8.56.32-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195211,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195140\/revisions\/195211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}