Sheila Dikshit’s last instruction: Protest at BJP office if standoff between Priyanka, UP govt goes on

On Friday evening though, she instructed her party members to again stage a protest the next day if the standoff did not end.

“Had the stand-off between the UP government and Priyanka Gandhi not ended today, then the Delhi Congress was to stage a protest outside BJP headquarters. This was Sheila Dikshit’s last instruction as the Delhi Pradesh chief on Friday evening,” said a teary-eyed Kiran Walia, who was a minister in Dikshit’s cabinet. PHOTOS | Congress stalwart Sheila Dikshit, credited for transforming Delhi, passes away

“Events took a different turn as far as Uttar Pradesh was concerned, else we would have protested,” she said after paying tributes to the former chief minister at her residence.

The standoff between Priyanka Gandhi and the UP government ended on Saturday after some of the villagers from Sonbhadra, where 10 people were gunned down over a land dispute, came to the guesthouse in Mirzapur district where the Congress leader was staying.

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On Friday, she was detained by the Mirzapur administration when she insisted on traveling to the scene of the recent shooting in Sonbhadra. Gandhi was taken to the Chunar guesthouse where she spent Friday night, insisting she will not return to Delhi unless she meets the families of the victims.