‘You have called a martyr’s son anti-national, Mir Jafar’: What Priyanka Gandhi said at today’s Congress ‘Satyagraha’

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and senior Leaders Priyanka Gandhi,Ashok Gehlot, Adhiranjan Choudhary, and others leave after paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi on concluding the party’s Sankalp Satyagraha at Rajghat in New Delhi on Sunday. (Express Photo by Tashi Tobgyal)

Here are the top quotes from Priyanka Gandhi’s speech at the satyagraha today:

📌 “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 said.

📌 “My family has shed blood for this country.. this Tricolour.. this land.. Iss dharti mein unka khoon hai, is desh ke loktantra ko mere parivaar ke khoon ne seecha hai (Their blood is in this land, this country’s democracy was nurtured by their sacrifices).”

📌 “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.”

📌 “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 values of their family? Should we be ashamed because our family members fought for the people of the country?” she said.

📌 “The prime minister of this country is a coward. Slap a case on me, send me to jail. But the truth is that the prime minister of this country is a coward … he is hiding behind his power, he is arrogant. This country has an old tradition, Hinduism has an old tradition … ahankaari raja ko janta jawab deti hai (the public will respond to the arrogant ruler).”

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📌 Attacking the government on the Adani issue, she said, “Are you not able to see that your entire wealth is being looted? It is being given to one person, it is being given to a handful of industrialists. Whose wealth is this? Is this Rahul Gandhi’s wealth? This is your wealth … the PSUs built for you are being sold to them, given to them one after the other. Your employment comes from these PSUs, small businesses, and small traders … No big Adani can give you jobs, they will only snatch away your jobs.”

📌 “Open your eyes, this entire government, the ministers, MPs … why are they trying to save one man? What is in this Adani that you are giving the entire country’s wealth to him? That you get rattled when his name is taken,” she said.

📌 “Rahul Gandhi has done masters from the world’s two top institutions–Harvard and Cambridge. And you made him pappu. Then you came to know that this ‘pappu’ has embarked on a yatra and it became known that he is not a pappu … lakhs of people are walking with him, he is honest, he understands things, he is going to the people, listening to their problems … and people are walking with him … they got scared.”