'Betrayer' vs 'part-time leader' — Priyanka, Jyotiraditya go for jugular on last day of MP campaign

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New Delhi: The last day of the Madhya Pradesh election campaigning ended with a war of words between friends-turned-rivals Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Jyotiraditya Scindia over the former Congressmans hand in engineering the fall of the Kamal Nath-led government in 2020...

In her sharpest attack on Scindia by far, Priyanka on Wednesday called the BJP leader a betrayer and a backstabber and added that he was only following the family tradition...

The salvo appeared to be an indirect reference to how Jyotiradityas grandmother Vijayaraje Scindia had brought down the D.P. Mishra-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh in 1967 by engineering defections in the Congress...

Scindia hit back on X, formerly Twitter, calling Priyanka a part-time leader who should look in the mirror before launching a broadside against the Nehru-Gandhi family...

Priyanka as the Congress general secretary in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Scindia as in-charge of western Uttar Pradesh had often campaigned together in the 2019 Lok Sabha election...

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