Why PM mum on nuns’ harassment: Priyanka Gandhi

Thrissur (Kerala), March 31

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Wednesday took on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “quoting” from the Bible at a poll rally and nothing for the nuns harassed by “goons” belonging to his party during a train journey through BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh recently.

“I suppose this was because the elections in Kerala are round the corner… I didn’t hear a single word about the sisters who were harassed in Jhansi,” she said, a day after Modi targeted the ruling LDF over the gold smuggling scam in a poll rally in Palakkad, saying the CPM-led government “betrayed” the people, just as Judas did to Jesus for a few pieces of silver”.

Addressing an election rally here, Priyanka said there was nothing more hollow than quoting from the Bible “to sow seeds of division and hatred in the country”.

She said she had worked for many years with the nuns belonging to Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Delhi, who taught her how to clean the wounds of the destitutes. “I worked for many years with my sisters in Mother Teresa’s order of Missionaries of Charity. I was a volunteer at their homes in Delhi”, Gandhi said while narrating her experience as a volunteer at the sisters of Mother Teresa’s order. — PTI