'Varun joining the Congress? I think it is the Congress that spreads such rumours'

August 16, 2016 09:07

Any question about her son's position in the party is answered with tact. As Indira Gandhi's younger daughter-in-law, Maneka Gandhi had never shied away from publicly declaring her ambitions about seeing her husband, the late Sanjay Gandhi, as India's future prime minister. But the once brash model-turned-journalist-turned-politician has mellowed over the years and knows that diplomacy is the road to longevity in politics.So she just smiles fondly when asked if Varun Gandhi ought to be given a bigger role in Uttar Pradesh by the BJP. "I am not going to talk about this at all. I don't make the decisions about what happens in the BJP.'I twist the question, hoping to elicit a suitable answer this time. Does she think he is being sidelined by the party? "I can't even answer this,' she replies. But then the doting mother in her starts to list some of his achievements.

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