Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, alongside with opposition MPs, carried a obtain supporting Bangladeshi minorities to the Indian Parliament this day (17 December).
The pass came a day after she faced criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) for carrying a obtain with “Palestine” written on it.
The obtain, which bore the message “Stand with Bangladeshi Hindus and Christians,” referenced most in style assaults on minorities in Bangladesh following the ouster of high minister Sheikh Hasina, experiences The Times of India.
Priyanka later shared an image of herself with the obtain on X, captioning it with a Sanskrit couplet: “Right here’s mine, that is yours, converse these of slim minds. For the noble-hearted, on the opposite hand, the total world is one household.”
Opposition MPs also carried placards condemning atrocities against minorities in Bangladesh as fragment of a stutter held on the parliament premises.
Earlier, BJP criticised Priyanka and labelled her action as “appeasement”
BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya called Priyanka “bigger effort than Rahul Gandhi”.
“On the quit of this Parliament session, trace a two minute silence for all people in the Congress, who believed Priyanka Vadra modified into as soon as the prolonged-awaited solution, they wish to love embraced earlier. She is a bigger effort than Rahul Gandhi, who thinks sporting a obtain in give a map shut to of Palestine in the Parliament, is set preventing patriarchy. That is gorgeous. Crass communal advantage signaling to Muslims is now cloaked as stance against patriarchy! Carry out no mistake, Congress is the Original Muslim League,” Malviya wrote on X.
Priyanka Gandhi responded by announcing that the criticism modified into as soon as “conventional patriarchy” the put she modified into as soon as “being educated what to position on and what no longer to position on”.
“Who’s going to come to a option what garments I save on now. That is conventional patriarchy that you make a selection out what garments ladies folk save on. I don’t subscribe to it. I might save on what I must.”
BJP’s Sambit Patra also hit out at Priyanka Gandhi, announcing “The Gandhi household has repeatedly been carrying the obtain of appeasement”.
“The appeasement obtain is the cause for his or her losses in elections,” Sambit Patra said throughout a press briefing at the nationwide capital.
Priyanka’s gesture comes days after she modified into as soon as considered sporting a unlit-and-white keffiyeh (a ragged Palestinian headscarf) throughout a gathering with the Palestinian Embassy’s Payment d’Affaires.
