Gorakhpur, November 14, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
BJP MP Ravi Kishan on Saturday took a swipe at Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi over his phone-tapping allegation, sarcastically suggesting that his phone was being monitored to discover how to turn potatoes into gold.
His remarks came a day after Gandhi renewed his challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a one-on-one debate and alleged that his phone was being tapped on the Prime Minister’s directions.
Speaking to IANS, Kishan said: “We were tapping his mobile phone because we really needed to know how he is going to make gold out of potatoes. Otherwise, the entire formula of doing so would have stayed with Rahul Gandhi.”
The Gorakhpur MP added: “We also have farms and we also need to make gold from potatoes. So that is why his phone is being tapped, as he thinks, because the formula of making gold from potatoes is there in his phone.”
Kishan was referring to a 2017 remark by Gandhi during a public address in Gujarat.
BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi also criticised Gandhi, calling the Congress and the Gandhi family “James Bond of espionage”. He alleged that the party’s leaders had previously linked surveillance controversies to spying, recalling an incident involving the then Home and Finance Ministers when the Congress was in power.
Responding to the allegations, Congress spokesperson Surendra Rajput demanded a clear statement from the BJP on whether phone tapping was taking place. He called for an investigation by a sitting Supreme Court judge to establish whether the government had purchased Pegasus spyware and whether opposition leaders’ phones were being monitored, as alleged by Gandhi.
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