{"id":2942,"date":"2026-02-18T06:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:31:12","slug":"128494775-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=2942","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Chinese products showcased&#8217;: Rahul Gandhi calls AI Impact summit &#8216;disorganised PR spectacle&#8217; | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ\" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-128494722,imgsize-601716,width-400,resizemode-4\/rahul-gandhi.jpg\" alt=\"'Chinese products showcased': Rahul Gandhi calls AI Impact summit 'disorganised PR spectacle'\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Congress leader <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rahul-gandhi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Rahul Gandhi<\/a> on Wednesday slammed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ai-impact-summit\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">AI Impact Summit<\/a>, terming it a &#8220;disorganised PR spectacle.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>In a social media post on X, the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha claimed that Indian data is up for sale in the event while Chinese products are being showcased.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>&#8220;Instead of leveraging India\u2019s talent and data, the AI summit is a disorganised PR spectacle &#8211; Indian data up for sale, Chinese products showcased,&#8221; Rahul said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Rahul also quoted a post by Congress which said that Modi government has made a &#8220;laughing stock of India globally&#8221;, with regard to AI. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>&#8220;In the ongoing AI summit, Chinese robots are being displayed as our own. The Chinese media has mocked us. This is truly embarrassing for India. What is even more shameful is the fact that Modi\u2019s minister <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ashwini-vaishnaw\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Ashwini Vaishnaw<\/a> is indulging in the same falsehood, promoting China&#8217;s robots at the Indian summit,&#8221; the party said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>&#8220;The Modi Government has caused irreparable damage to the image of the country &#8211; they have reduced AI to a joke &#8211; a field in which we could be world leaders given our data power,&#8221; it added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>This comes after Galgotia University showcased a robotic dog labled &#8220;Orion&#8221; at the AI Summit expo. However, the university faced backlash as critics claimed that the product was actually a Chinese-made Unitree Go2 and not an in-house innovation.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>Meanwhile, Galgotias University has been asked to vacate its stall at the AI Summit Expo immediately, news agency PTI reported citing government sources.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/chinese-products-showcased-rahul-gandhi-calls-ai-impact-summit-disorganised-pr-spectacle\/articleshow\/128494775.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday slammed AI Impact Summit, terming it a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6130,1473,724,8340,8341,723,719,720,721,5079,8342,1020,722],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ai-impact-summit","tag-ashwini-vaishnaw","tag-breaking-news","tag-chinese-products","tag-galgotias-university","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-indian-data","tag-orion-robotic-dog","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}