Use your mind: Maneka Gandhi to Varun Gandhi

Lucknow: Maneka Gandhi, BJP MP from Pilibhit, advised her son Varun, BJP MP and Sultanpur nominee, to “not comment on things you haven’t seen”. Reacting to her son’s remarks on development in Amethi, Ms Gandhi told reporters in Pilibhit on Thursday that Mr Varun should “use his brain  more than his heart”.

She said, “I have myself gone to Amethi and  there is no development there. Nobody should comment on something unless you see it with your own eyes. Some people  might have told him that good work has been done in Amethi and  he said it, but it is not right.” Varun Gandhi had told a group of activists he wanted to  bring in a new form of politics, saying, “We need small-scale industries, the kind of self-help groups that Rahulji has set up successfully in Amethi.”