Thiruvananthapuram: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday said that her mother, former party chief Sonia Gandhi, “has a right to tell her story”, saying that many people have said “whatever they want” about her for a long time.
“Now, she’s telling her story. So, she has a right to tell her story. It’s good they are reading it. What else do you expect them to say? For so long they have been telling lies about my mother. Now she’s telling the truth, so obviously they’re going to say that. What else can they say? Union minister Giriraj Singh took a swipe at Sonia for noting in her memoir that Prime Minister Narendra Modi tends to look away whenever he comes face-to-face with her. “With how many people will he make eye contact?
This comes amid the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) attacking Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s book, Belonging: A Journey of Love, alleging that the memoir sought to “whitewash” the wrongs committed by the Nehru-Gandhi family. “Well, look, for the whole of my mother’s life, her adult life in India, the BJP, the RSS, many, many people, everybody has said whatever they wanted about my mother. They have told lies; they have fabricated stories. They have completely invented things, and she has been quiet,” Priyanka Gandhi told the media during her visit to her parliamentary constituency in Keralam. The Wayanad MP said that her mother had a right to tell her story, which she was doing through her book. Anyway, I am very happy they’re reading her book,” Priyanka said. He has already made eye contact once,” he said. Targeting the reference to the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, BJP leader HS Phoolka, a prominent lawyer who fought cases for Sikh victims, said in a press conference: “In her book, she (Sonia) has attempted to grant a self-clean chit to her own family—even regarding the massacre of Sikhs…”
