Must bust Priyanka Gandhi’s myth, says BJP’s Arun Jaitley

New Delhi: Congress spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala said, “I don’t think anybody can prevent Priyanka, and nobody will prevent her from enlarging her role as and when she chooses to play a larger political role in the Indian political spectrum.”

The BJP, in a dig at the Congress’ first family, said it wished the Congress fielded Priyanka against Mr Modi in Varanasi as India needed the “myth” around her to be “exploded”. The party said the Congress was just “a crowd around a family”, that saw no option “but her, after Rahul Gandhi did not click”.

Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said the “Gandhis are under siege”. “But a party which is merely a crowd around a family probably felt that the current leader in the family has not clicked. The real solution to the problem is to make the Congress a more structured party. The Congress solution is, if one incumbent in the family fails, the alternative can only be another member of the family. I had almost predicted this. I only wish that the desperate solution of Varanasi had be-en actually implemented,” Mr Jaitley wrote in his blog.