A senior BJP leader on Monday, 28 January, took a swipe at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi with a card game reference by asking whether the latter was a "joker" if his sister Priyanka Gandhi was the opposition party's "trump card".
Saroj Pandey, BJP in charge for Maharashtra and Rajya Sabha MP, justified her card game word play by citing the statement of senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad who had termed Priyanka Gandhi’s appointment as the party’s general secretary for eastern Uttar Pradesh as a “trump card” move.
She was addressing the convention of Maharashtra BJP in Jalna.
"I cannot play cards, but you can understand (the difference between) trump card and joker," she further said.
"Had the party (Congress) played its trump card earlier, this joker would not have wasted so much time of the country," Pandey said.
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