The BJP on Thursday asserted that the newly appointed All India Congress Committee general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s formal entry in active politics would have no impact on the Lok Sabha polls.
Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha, who is an MP from Ghazipur in East Uttar Pradesh (the charge of which Ms. Vadra now holds for the Congress), said her appointment as Congress general secretary of Uttar Pradesh-East might have generated a buzz in Delhi but it had drawn no response from the region of which she had been made in-charge by her party.
At a press conference, he also played down ally Shiv Sena’s praise for Ms. Vadra, saying it was the party’s “personal opinion”.
“Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was made a general secretary in Delhi and you people have been discussing it here. But it seems that people of the region of which she has been made in-charge are not noticing it,” Mr. Sinha said, adding that her presence would have no impact on the general election. He said the Lok Sabha election would be fought on a “different plane,” stressing that the Modi government had “changed the lives of 22 crore families with its development policies.”
He lashed out at Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his use of “impolite” words against Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Amethi, saying such language was “not used even in panchayat politics.”
He added that farm loan waivers promised by the Congress in the last round of Assembly polls late last year “were nothing but a chhalaava or fraud.”
“It is in the nature of the Congress to make false promises. After winning in the three States [Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh], the Congress is busy wiping debts of its own leaders rather than aggrieved farmers,” he said.
Published - January 24, 2019 09:40 pm IST
