My mother’s mangalsutra was sacrificed for the country: Priyanka Gandhi responds to PM Modi’s remark

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Tuesday that her mother Sonia Gandhi’s “mangalsutra was sacrificed for the sake of the country” as she responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claims that the party will take away gold owned by women if voted to power.

“My mother's mangalsutra has been sacrificed for this country,” Vadra said at a rally in Bengaluru, referring to the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.

On Sunday, Modi had claimed at a rally in Rajasthan that the Congress’ manifesto talks about calculating “the amount of gold that mothers and sisters have, get information about it and then distribute that property” among Muslim “infiltrators”.

The prime minister added: “This Urban Naxal thinking will not spare even the mangalsutras of my mothers and sisters.” The term “urban Naxals” is used by BJP supporters to describe those who oppose the Modi government.

The Congress, however, dared Modi to show one paragraph in its manifesto where it talked about redistributing wealth to Muslims.

Modi was purportedly referring to remarks that Manmohan Singh made on December 9, 2006, when he addressed a meeting of the National Development Council. Singh, who was prime minister at the time, said that the country’s priorities were to uplift the Scheduled...

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