India Will Decide Who Has Gone Astray, Maneka Tells Priyanka Gandhi

BJP leader Maneka Gandhi has, in defence of her son Varun Gandhi, lashed out at the statement of Priyanka Gandhi, who had said that he had ‘gone astray’ must be ‘taught a lesson’.

Saying that if serving the country is going astray, Maneka stated that India would decide who had chosen the wrong path.

The BJP too has attacked Priyanka for her statements, adding that the language used by her was inapproprite, and that the Congress was insecure about Varun’s popularity.

Priyanka Gandhi, Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s daughter, has launched her first ever attack on her cousin Varun Gandhi, the candidate of the BJP from Sultanpur constituency.

She had said on Saturday that Varun Gandhi was ‘led astray’, and that it was the duty of the people to ‘point him in the right direction’.

During a closed door meeting of Congress party workers in a Munshiganj guest house, of which videos were later leaked, Priyanka had said that though it was true that he was her brother and that he was contesting the elections from Sultanpur, she did not want them to think he was a Gandhi, claiming that the Gandhi family had shed its blood of this nation.

Priyanka had also said that Varun must realise that politics cannot be divisive, and that it must unite the people. She had also said that he must learn that this was not how politics was done. She had also stressed that the people’s votes must teach Varun to ‘learn the language of love and unity’.

In the video, she was seen addressing a small group of party workers, while the party’s candidate for the Lok Sabha elections Ameeta Sinh was seen in the background.

Evidently appealing for Sultanpur to vote against Varun, Priyanka had said that when a person was sometimes led astray, it was up to other people to show him the ‘right path’.

Saying that in politics, the vote of the people wielded the power to do this, she had said that if a young person of the family lost his way, the elders of the family showed him the right path. Saying that the gathered crowd were all part of their family, she had asked them to show her brother the ‘path of brotherhood and love for all’, stating that Sultanpur’s people should not vote just for their constituency, but for the nation as a whole.