Priyanka Gandhi carries 'stand with Bangladesh minorities' bag to parliament after Palestine row
The move came a day after she faced criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for carrying a bag with "Palestine" written on it
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, along with opposition MPs, carried a bag supporting Bangladeshi minorities to the Indian Parliament today (17 December).
The move came a day after she faced criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for carrying a bag with "Palestine" written on it.
The bag, which bore the message "Stand with Bangladeshi Hindus and Christians," referenced recent attacks on minorities in Bangladesh following the ouster of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, reports The Times of India.
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Priyanka later shared an image of herself with the bag on X, captioning it with a Sanskrit couplet: "This is mine, that is yours, say those of narrow minds. For the noble-hearted, however, the entire world is one family."
Opposition MPs also carried placards condemning atrocities against minorities in Bangladesh as part of a protest held on the parliament premises.
Earlier, BJP criticised Priyanka and labelled her action as "appeasement"
BJP's IT cell head Amit Malviya called Priyanka "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," Malviya wrote on X.
Priyanka Gandhi responded by saying that the criticism was "typical patriarchy" where she was "being told what to wear and what not to wear".
"Who is going to decide what clothes I 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."
BJP's Sambit Patra also hit out at Priyanka Gandhi, saying "The Gandhi family has always been carrying the bag of appeasement".
"The appeasement bag is the reason for their losses in elections," Sambit Patra said during a press briefing at the national capital.
Priyanka's gesture comes days after she was seen wearing a black-and-white keffiyeh (a traditional Palestinian headscarf) during a meeting with the Palestinian Embassy's Charge d'Affaires.
