BJP Min Accuses Priyanka Gandhi of Insulting Lal Bahadur Shastri
BJP leader Smriti Irani accused Priyanka Gandhi of “insulting” Lal Bahadur Shastri.
BJP leader Smriti Irani on Wednesday accused Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of "insulting" Lal Bahadur Shastri as a purported video showed the Congress leader garlanding a bust of the former prime minister during her tour in Uttar Pradesh with the garland she had worn.
Union minister Irani wrote a limerick in a Hindi dialect to take a dig at the Congress general secretary in charge of eastern UP.
In her "arrogance", she chose a used garland, clapped, waved her hands and left after insulting Shastri, Irani tweeted, tagging the video.
The BJP leader also took a dig at the Congress over a woman's accusation that the opposition party's workers behaved inappropriately with her.
It shows real values of the Congress, Irani alleged.
Wrapping up her three-day tour of Uttar Pradesh in Prime minister Narendra Modi's Varanasi constituency, Priyanka called the coming Lok Sabha elections a "new freedom struggle".
(Published in arrangement with PTI)
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