Ignoring Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati’s barbs against her for not visiting Kota in Rajasthan after the death of over 100 infants a fortnight back, Congress general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra returned the fire to the former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
“Union Home Minister is challenging a leader for debate on CAA who had not even stepped out of her house for election campaign to fight for her party,” tweeted Priyanka without naming Mayawati.
The Congress leader also replied to Mayawati over her (Vadra’s) silence on the deaths of infants in Rajasthan.
“The challenge was given to a party leader who raises issues of other states and took least interest towards problems in her own,” she tweeted, indirectly targeting Mayawati for showing concern over deaths in Rajasthan but being silent over lawlessness, rising prices, unemployment, problems of farmers etc in Uttar Pradesh.
Interestingly, minutes before Priyanka’s tweet, the BSP chief, through a tweet, accepted the challenge of Union Home Minister Amit Shah for a public debate over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
Shah had thrown the challenge to leaders of all parties, including the BSP, for a debate on the CAA on any public platform while addressing a pro-CAA rally in Lucknow.
Last month, Mayawati had flayed Priyanka for her double standards, saying that while Congress leaders were visiting families of CAA protesters in UP, they were not visiting Kota where over 110 infants died in a short time.
Mayawati also said that the top leader (Priyanka), who was in Rajasthan to attend a function, could have taken some time out to go and meet the family members of Kota victims.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi arrived in her parliamentary constituency Rae Bareli for a two-day visit to participate in the ongoing training camp of Congress workers led by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Sonia and Priyanka arrived at Fursatganj airport on Wednesday afternoon and drove straight to Unchahar to meet the family of former MLA Ajay Pal, whose son died recently.
After expressing condolences to the family, their motorcade headed to Bhueymau guest house where the training camp is currently underway. Congress district and city unit chiefs of east UP are undergoing training at the camp.
Wednesday was the third day of the training camp and beside district and city chiefs, office-bearers of newly formed UP Congress Committee also participated in the camp.
The camp was also attended by UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar ‘Lallu’, Congress Legislative Party leaders in state Assembly and Council, Aradhana Mishra ‘Mona’ and Deepak Singh respectively, veteran leader Pramod Tewari and others.
The camp will conclude on Thursday after which both Sonia and Priyanka will return to New Delhi.
