Congress leader Ashok Gehlot said former PM Rajiv Gandhi had envisioned the 21st century, and that the "emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was his dream". His statement has elicited criticism from the BJP, with spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla mocking Rahul Gandhi's old 'aloo to sona' remark and saying these "artificially intelligent statements" are probably Rajiv Gandhi's invention.