Priyanka Gandhi As Congress’s PM Face? Robert Vadra Says ‘Demands From Everywhere’; BJP Reacts | Politics News

Last Updated:December 23, 2025, 15:07 IST

On Congress’s Imran Masood’s remark, Robert Vadra says, “There are demands from everywhere that Priyanka should step up.” BJP says, “Tharoor, Masood, Janpath against Rahul Gandhi.”

(From left) Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and her husband Robert Vadra. (PTI File)

Reacting to Congress MP Imran Masood’s pitch to make Priyanka Gandhi Vadra the PM face of the party, her husband, Robert Vadra, said that “there are demands from everywhere”.

“There are demands from everywhere that Priyanka should come forward. There are also demands that I should enter politics. But right now, we should focus on the real issues that concern the people,” he said.

Masood’s statement and U-turn

Masood on Tuesday said that if Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were made the Prime Minister, she would give a strong response like her grandmother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Speaking to ANI, Imran Masood said, “… Is Priyanka Gandhi the Prime Minister? Make her the Prime Minister and see how she will retaliate like Indira Gandhi. She is Priyanka Gandhi. She has Gandhi added behind her name. She is the granddaughter of Indira Gandhi, who inflicted so much damage on Pakistan that those wounds still haven’t healed. Make her the Prime Minister and see how she will retaliate. You won’t dare to do that.”

When asked what it would mean for Priyanka’s brother and Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, Masood said, “Rahul Gandhi will act too, they are not separate. Rahul and Priyanka are like two eyes on the same face, the grandchildren of Indira Gandhi.”

As the statement caused an uproar, Masood later said, “The BJP has nothing else to talk about…Rahul Gandhi is my and Priyanka Gandhi’s neta…I only said she is second Indira Gandhi…I said both of them are her eyes…If the command would have been in her hands, this would not have happened in Bangladesh. We have no infighting…Rahul Gandhi is our leader.”

Masood, Tharoor, Janmat, Janpath against Rahul Gandhi: BJP

Meanwhile, addressing students at the Hertie School in Berlin, Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is proposing “elimination of the Constitution” that grants equal rights to all and vowed to create a system of opposition’s resistance that will succeed in removing the party from power.

Reacting to Rahul’s statements, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said, “Rahul Gandhi has indulged in ‘Bharat badnaami’ on foreign soil, there’s nothing new in it…Rahul Gandhi should now rename the LoP position, not as Leader of Opposition, but as Leader of Propaganda, because going on foreign soil, meeting with anti-India elements, meeting with elements associated with George Soros, who wants to destabilise India, and then spewing fakery and propaganda against India has become the full-time job of Rahul Gandhi.”

Poonawalla, later in a press conference, said, “Rahul only insults India…which is why Imran Masood, Shashi Tharoor and many from Priyanka Gandhi’s camp are against him. The allies of Congress party have already spoken against Rahul Gandhi…This is the country’s no-confidence vote against him…Janmat is against him, and now even Janpath is against him.”

Pradip Bhandari, national spokesperson of the BJP, said on X, “Open fight between Rahul and Priyanka camp in Congress…Divide in Congress out in the open…Robert Vadra and Priyanka Gandhi’s open dissent against Rahul Gandhi…Open fight in the family!”

Ally CPI(M) questions Rahul’s absence

UP minister Daya Shankar Singh responded to the pitch for Priyanka saying, “Priyanka Gandhi’s father, grandmother and great-grandfather ruled the country for decades, yet the nation did not prosper. Now, when the Congress is declining, what good will Priyanka Gandhi be able to do?”

Congress ally CPI(M)’s Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas, meanwhile, questioned Rahul Gandhi’s absence in Parliament. “We had already decided that Rahul Gandhi, as part of the opposition, should be present when the three anti-people bills were piloted in Parliament. However, it is for him and his political party to decide…”

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