Wayanad, Nov 12:
Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday hit back at the BJP’s criticism of her mother Sonia Gandhi’s newly released memoir, asserting that the ruling party and the RSS had spread falsehoods about the former Congress president for decades and were now rattled because she was presenting the truth.
Speaking to reporters in Wayanad in response to the BJP accusing Sonia Gandhi of “whitewashing” the 1975 Emergency and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in her book Belonging: A Journey of Love, Priyanka defended her mother’s right to narrate her personal experiences. “For most of my mother’s adult life in India, the BJP, RSS, and many others have said whatever they wanted to say about her. They have told lies, they have fabricated stories, they have completely invented things and she has been quiet. Now she is telling her story. She has a right to tell her story,” she asserted.
Taking a dig at ruling party leaders over their sharp reactions since the book’s release on Tuesday, Priyanka remarked: “For so long they have been telling lies about my mother. Now she is telling the truth. So obviously they are going to say that (it is false). What else can they say. Anyways, I am very happy they are reading her book.”