Vijay Diwas, Indira Gandhi, 1971 Indo-Pak Warfare: Misogynistic

Indira Gandhi was the nation’s first and, thus far, solely girl to be elected Prime Minister

New Delhi:

Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has ripped into the “misogynist BJP authorities” after it appeared to skip any point out of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi throughout immediately’s Vijay Diwas celebrations – immediately marks the fiftieth anniversary of India’s victory over Pakistan in 1971.

Ms Gandhi Vadra’s brother Rahul Gandhi was equally scathing; the Lok Sabha MP stated Indira Gandhi, his grandmother, “took 32 bullets for the nation (she was shot useless in 1984) however her title was not even talked about at a authorities occasion”.

Indira Gandhi was on the head of the Congress authorities in energy through the 1971 battle.

“Our first and solely girl Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, is being omitted of the misogynist BJP authorities’s Vijay Diwas celebrations. This, on the fiftieth anniversary of the day that she led India to victory and liberated Bangladesh…” Ms Gandhi Vadra tweeted.

“Narendra Modi ji… ladies do not consider your platitudes. Your patronising angle is unacceptable. It is about time you began giving ladies their due,” she stated.

…@narendramodi ji, ladies do not consider your platitudes. Your patronising angle is unacceptable. It is about time you began giving ladies their due. 2/2

— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) December 16, 2021

Together with her tweets Ms Gandhi Vadra posted 4 black-and-white images – together with one among Indira Gandhi visiting a wounded soldier and one other of her assembly armed forces officers.

Rahul Gandhi stated: “(Indira Gandhi) took 32 bullets for nation however her title was not even talked about at a authorities occasion in Delhi for the 1971 battle anniversary”.

“However households who made no sacrifice for the nation can’t really feel this,” he stated.

Earlier immediately each Homes of Parliament paid tribute to the troopers who had died within the battle. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla stated troopers’ sacrifices would “encourage future generations” and Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu praised their “show of dauntless braveness”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted an effusive picture tribute to fallen troopers.

Arjun Ram Meghwal, the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, performed down the Congress’ protests on this situation and instructed NDTV that Indira Gandhi’s title had, in actual fact, been talked about.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s assault on the BJP immediately was a pointed two-for-one swipe with one eye on a complete raft of elections subsequent yr, together with within the politically key state of Uttar Pradesh and one other in Punjab, the place her Congress is scrambling to mount a re-election marketing campaign.

Ms Gandhi Vadra is main the Congress’ cost, notably in UP, the place she has focused the BJP over its document on ladies’s security and highlighted the actual fact “all ladies must bear exploitation”.

Final week she launched a “girl’s manifesto” that supplied free LPG cylinders, money transfers, and a promise to combat for larger illustration for ladies in legislative our bodies, together with the Parliament.

With enter from PTI