Priyanka Gandhi: 'Amit Shah Mocked My Mother's Tears...’ Wayanad MP's Emotional Outburst in Parliament Over Pahalgam, Op Sindoor Goes Viral

The Congress leader and her president, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, in a strongly emotional statement in parliament, has not just accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of mocking tears that her mother, Sonia Gandhi, has shed recently in a political speech, but said that Mr. Shah has insulted her mother, Sonia Gandhi. The Kashmir results have given rise to a fresh political tussle in the wake of the remarks alluding to the Batla House encounter.

Priyanka Gandhi: Amit Shah mocked my mother's tears, my mother cried when her husband and father died.

HM was talking about Batla House Encounter pic.twitter.com/JRbWgWPNCB

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“Don’t Mock a Woman’s Grief”: Priyanka’s Message to Amit Shah

Speaking at a rally, Priyanka Gandhi said she was pained over the remarks on her mother made by Shah. According to her, those were not tears of weakness on the part of Sonia Gandhi but of how massively Sonia Gandhi suffered so much because of the assassinations of both her father-in-law, Indira Gandhi, and her husband, Rajiv Gandhi.

The sentence was a direct reaction to the words of Shah when he said that Sonia Gandhi had reportedly cried after the Batla House encounter in 2008. The reason why Priyanka cried in front of the audience is because of the insults she received, which she said: she is a mother, a wife, and a daughter, and she does not want any member of the audience to speak about her in that way.

Batla House Encounter Revisited Amid Political Tension

The Batla House encounter has been the most contentious event in the political history of India. Shah has brought back the charged statement that Congress President Sonia Gandhi was emotional because of the killing of a suspected terrorist, which has come back to haunt the BJP, to go after the national security policy of Congress.

Nonetheless, Congress leaders claim that the BJP is attempting to move the national interests on critical national matters by making the issues political regarding old events. Priyanka referred to this as a disrespectful and inhumane approach to such a person who has a personal tragedy connected closely to the political story in India.

Social Media Divided as Emotional Politics Resurfaces

The comments have caused a PAA on social media, with tags such as #SoniaGandhi and #PriyankaGandhi trending. According to the supporters, Priyanka was courageous to speak about the pain of her family, but critics said that you should not use emotions as a political defence. The back-and-forth revives the spotlight on the way the grieving is handled by those in the political arena and how much those highly intimate moments should be removed from the kind of language used in a campaign.