Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday visited the ancestral home of former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri at Ramnagar here.
Gandhi, who reached here on Wednesday morning by road, garlanded the statute of Shastri at his ancestral home.
She was accorded a warm welcome by party leaders and workers on reaching Varanasi.
BJP leader Smriti Irani Wednesday accused Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of "insulting" Lal Bahadur Shastri as a purported video showed the Congress leader garlanding a bust of the former prime minister during her tour in Uttar Pradesh with the garland she had worn.
Irani wrote a limerick in a Hindi dialect to take a dig at the Congress general secretary in charge of eastern UP.
मुंडी झुकाइएके सर झटकाइएके
— Chowkidar Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) March 20, 2019
गुमान में बिटिया भूल गई मरजाद
आपन गले की उतरन, पहनाए दीहिन
शास्त्री जी के अपमान पर ताली बजाएके, हाथ हिलाइएके
चल दीहलें कांग्रेस बिटिया तोहार pic.twitter.com/ndwT15Y8co
In her "arrogance", she chose a used garland, clapped, waved her hands and left after insulting Shastri, Irani tweeted, tagging the video.
The BJP leader also took a dig at the Congress over a woman's accusation that the opposition party's workers behaved inappropriately with her.
I fully understand @MahimaShastri as Shastri ji’s family how you must be feeling. But never forget the entire India is Shastri ji’s family. And people will punish these unculktured people soon. https://t.co/QeHmHlecOv
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) March 20, 2019
It doesn’t surprise me.
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) March 20, 2019
Shastri ji’s wife Lalita ji had to sit on hunger strike at Vijay Ghat because the then PM refused to allow ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’ on Shastri ji’s samadhi. With swelling public fury, the PM was forced to give in. #TheTashkentFiles#WhoKilledShastri https://t.co/deW9ziKsSR
It shows real values of the Congress, Irani alleged.
Wrapping up her three-day tour of Uttar Pradesh in Prime minister Narendra Modi's Varanasi constituency, Priyanka called the coming Lok Sabha elections a "new freedom struggle".