Votes can't be won on beauty: Bihar minister on Priyanka

January 25, 2019 11:34

Bihar minister Vinod Narayan Jha on Priyanka Gandhi: Votes can't be won on the basis of beautiful faces. Moreover, she is the wife of Robert Vadra who is accused of involvement in a land scam and several corruption cases. She's very beautiful, but other than that she holds no political achievement.

Ending years of fevered speculation, Gandhi family scion Priyanka Gandhi Vadra formally entered politics on Wednesday with her brother and Congress president Rahul Gandhi appointing her as general secretary for Uttar Pradesh East, which also comprises Lok Sabha seats of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and state chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

Signalling the Congress' intent to go full throttle in the state ahead of the high-stakes general elections, Priyanka's appointment immediately became a point of political debate with leaders of the Congress and its allies welcoming it saying she will be a 'great success' for the party while the Bharatiya Janata Party dubbed her entry into active politics 'as an admission by the Congress that its president Rahul Gandhi has failed in providing leadership'.

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