New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Aprajita Sarangi on Friday surprised Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, gifting a tote bag with ‘1984’ emblazoned on it, probably alluding to the anti-Sikh riots following former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination.
A video shows Sarangi presenting the bag to Priyanka in the Parliament’s hallways, where she accepted it and continued walking. This comes days after Priyanka carried tote bags with messages and symbols expressing solidarity with Palestine and Bangladeshi minorities. Her gesture triggered criticism from the BJP.
BJP's IT department chief Amit Malviya called Priyanka’s 'a bigger disaster than Rahul Gandhi.' "At the end of this Parliament session, observe a two minute silence for everyone in the Congress, who believed Priyanka Vadra was the long-awaited solution they should have embraced earlier. She is a bigger disaster than Rahul Gandhi, who thinks sporting a bag in support of Palestine in the Parliament is about fighting patriarchy. That is right. Crass communal virtue signaling to Muslims is now cloaked as stance against patriarchy! Make no mistake, Congress is the New Muslim League (sic)," he posted on X.
BJP trolling Priyanka 🔥
— Ankur Singh (@iAnkurSingh) December 20, 2024
BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi brings a tote bag with 1984 inscribed on it as a 'gift' for Priyanka Gandhi.
Will @priyankagandhi accept the gift?pic.twitter.com/1uHIJWe9Ip
In response, Priyanka termed the criticism as "typical patriarchy." “Who is going to decide what clothes I will wear now. That is typical patriarchy that you decide what clothes women wear. I don't subscribe to it. I will wear what I want to," she wrote on X.
BJP's Sambit Patra also slammed Priyanka for the tote Palestine and Bangladesh tote bags, saying, "The Gandhi family has always been carrying the bag of appeasement.".
"The appeasement bag is the reason for their losses in elections," Patra said during a press conference.
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