Congress MP from Wayanad and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has created a stir after she went to the Lok Sabha with a bag with the words ‘Palestine’ written on it. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra took a dig at the Congress and said, ‘The Gandhi family always carries this bag of appeasement. And that is why they have such results in the elections.’
However, Priyanka is reluctant to give in to the bag controversy. She clearly said that such discussions are actually very common ‘patriarchy’. When asked about the controversy on Monday, she said, ‘Who will decide what clothes I will wear now, what clothes I will not wear? Who will decide? It is a kind of patriarchy, where someone else will decide what women will wear and what they will not wear. I do not care about it. I will wear whatever I want.’
This is not the first time, Priyanka was seen wearing a kind of Palestinian scarf during a meeting with a high-ranking official of the Palestinian embassy. Priyanka has spoken out on the Gaza attack several times as a Congress leader. Now, she has made her stand clear as a Lok Sabha member as well.
Former Pakistani minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain praised Priyanka for carrying a bag with ‘Palestine’ written on it to the parliament.
Raising the issue of Monday’s incident, Fawad, a member of the cabinet of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, said, “Priyanka Gandhi has stood up with courage in front of small people. It is a shame that no member of the Pakistani parliament has had this courage so far.”
While praising Priyanka, Fawad also raised the issue of Jawaharlal Nehru. He said, “What can we expect from the granddaughter of a great freedom fighter like Jawaharlal Nehru?” Although Priyanka is not Nehru’s granddaughter. Priyanka’s father Rajiv Gandhi was Nehru’s grandson. However, this did not make it difficult to understand the meaning of Fawad’s statement.
The pro-independence armed group Hamas launched an attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7. Since then, Israeli forces have allegedly killed nearly 50,000 people in a series of attacks and ‘ground operations’ in Gaza and the West Bank. Most of them were innocent civilians, women and children.
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