Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not be able to understand that her father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi did not inherit the wealth but the feeling of martyrdom from her mother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Congress general secretary Priyanka Vadra said in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena on Thursday, in the midst of Lok Sabha elections.
“How do I explain [to myself] when Modi ji calls my father a traitor from stage, when Modi ji says that my father changed some law to get the inheritance from her mother? Modi ji will not understand that my father did not get money and wealth but shahadat ki bhavna [feeling of martyrdom] as inheritance. You can understand this as you have sent your sons to the border and they attain martyrdom for this country,” Ms. Vadra said as she responded to Mr. Modi’s allegations that Rajiv Gandhi had axed the inheritance law when he became Prime Minister to “avoid paying tax on the wealth he inherited from his mother”.
Ms. Vadra was addressing an election rally in Morena, part of the State’s Gwalior-Chambal region that sees many youth joining the forces.
