‘You talk about history’: Amit Shah vs Priyanka Gandhi in Lok Sabha; Gandhi family features in Operation Sindoor debate | India News

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday lashed out at Union home minister Amit Shah for bringing up former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi while addressing the Lok Sabha during the marathon debate on Operation Sindoor.Priyanka accused the Centre of evading accountability for the Pahalgam attack by “listing out the entire Gandhi family.”“The Union home minister today spoke about what Nehru and Indira Gandhi did. He even went on to talk about my mother’s tears. But he never answered why the ceasefire was announced. Sahab, you talk about history, I will talk about the present,” Priyanka said in Lok Sabha.“Union home minister spoke about my mother’s tears today. I want to answer this. My mother’s tears fell when terrorists killed my father. Today, when I talk about those 26 people (victims of the Pahalgam attack), it is because I understand their pain,” she added.Earlier in the day, Shah accused Sonia Gandhi of shedding tears for the terrorists who were killed in the 2008 Batla House encounter in Delhi.Shah said he was surprised to see then Congress chief Sonia Gandhi crying after the encounter.“I would like to remember Salman Khurshid. One day, I was having an early breakfast when I saw him weeping on TV while leaving Sonia Gandhi’s house. I thought something big had happened. He said that Sonia Gandhi was in tears over the Batla House incident. If you had to cry, you should have done that for Shaheed Mohan Sharma and not the Batla House terrorists,” Shah said.“The Congress has no right to question the government over what steps it has taken to tackle terror,” he added.On September 19, 2008, two terrorists of the Indian Mujahideen, hiding in a flat at Batla House in Jamia Nagar, were eliminated by an armed police unit. Mohan Chand Sharma, an inspector with the Delhi Police, was killed in action during the encounter.Shah also traced the back to India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, as he criticised successive Congress governments for an alleged lack of strength in their foreign policy, particularly towards Pakistan.“Today, China is in the United Nations Security Council, and India is not,” Shah said, referring to the permanent membership of the UNSC.“Jawaharlal Nehru’s stand is responsible for this. When our jawans were facing Chinese soldiers in Doklam, Rahul Gandhi was holding a meeting with the Chinese ambassador. This love for China has passed down three generations—from Jawaharlal Nehru to Sonia Gandhi to Rahul Gandhi,” Shah added.He further said, “PM Narendra Modi is trying his best to get India to become a part of the UN Security Council.”Referring to the 1962 war with China, Shah claimed, “Then PM Nehru bid goodbye to Assam in a speech on Akashvani (state radio).”He also said that in 1948, Indian armed forces were in a decisive position to take back Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, but “then PM Nehru declared a unilateral ceasefire.”