Our family nurtured India's democracy with their blood: Priyanka Gandhi slams BJP
New Delhi, March 26: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra fired back at the ruling BJP on Sunday, vowing to continue fighting for the people at the party's Sankalap Satyagraha to oppose the move to disqualify her brother, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
"Who thinks that they can silence us by scaring and humiliating us? Listen, we will not stop, I will see to it that the hard-earned money of the public is not being looted and given to few people," Priyanka Gandhi said.
"It was my family (Nehru-Gandhi) who nurtured the democracy of this country with their blood," she added.
Earlier, on Friday, Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha, a day after a Surat court sentenced him to two years imprisonment in a defamation case filed against him over his 'Modi surname' remark.
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"My brother went to PM Modi and hugged him in the Parliament and said he has no hatred for you. We might have different ideologies but we do not have the ideology of hatred," Priyanka Gandhi said at Raj Ghat.
"You (BJP) talk about 'Pariwarvaad', I want to ask who was Lord Ram. Was he 'Pariwarvaadi', or were the Pandavas 'Pariwarvaadi' just because they fought for the culture of their family? Should we be ashamed because our family members fought for the people of the country?" she added.
In response to Rahul Gandhi's disqualification, the Congress leader stated that such people are not disqualified from Parliament.
"They are not sent to jail, and they are not stopped from contesting elections for years. They have insulted my family a lot of times, but we kept quiet," she further added.
"My father's dead body was under this tricolour, and my brother was following him, you insult that martyr in the Parliament. You call the martyr's son Mir Jafar, you point fingers at the Nehru family. You insult the Kashmiri tradition where a son uses his father's surname," Gandhi added.
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- ANI
