BJP MP Tarun Chugh Calls Congress an ‘Expired Engine’ as Kharge Fears a Sinking Ship

On Sunday, BJP MP Tarun Chugh took to social media to fire back at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge. He didn’t mince words, describing the Congress party as an “expired engine” whose very existence, he claimed, makes no practical difference.

“Mallikarjun Kharge is not concerned about the youth,” Chugh wrote. “He is worried about the sinking ship of the Congress party and preoccupied with endless, futile manoeuvring.” The tone was unmistakably sharp, and the analogy of a ship going under was meant to underscore what he sees as an inevitable decline.

Chugh went on to contrast the alleged stagnation of Congress with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a “Viksit Bharat 2047.” He said today’s youth are energized by that forward‑looking plan, whereas Congress remains mired in “negativity, frustration, despondency, corruption and dynasticism.”

The jab came shortly after Kharge’s own scathing remarks. In a post on X, Kharge accused the Modi government of “paralysing and gutting” school and higher‑education systems over the past twelve years, claiming that an entire generation’s future has been “recklessly destroyed & sacrificed.” He backed his claim with a video that listed startling statistics – 94,000 government schools closed under the BJP, roughly 25 closures a day, thousands of schools running without electricity, and half of secondary schools lacking science labs.

One particularly striking vignette in the video showed a 47‑year‑old widowed mother in Maharashtra running a marathon barefoot to win a modest prize of ₹3,000, just to keep her daughter in school. The story was presented as a grim illustration of public desperation under the current policies. While the numbers and anecdotes fuel the political tussle, both sides continue to rally their bases, each painting the other as either an outdated relic or a reckless destroyer of the nation’s future.