The Wayanad MP has always been outspoken about the Palestinian cause.
New Delhi: Arriving with a bag emblazoned with ‘Palestine’ on it, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra expressed her solidarity with Palestinians in Parliament on Monday. The bag that turned heads also carried an image of a watermelon, the motif of resistance in Palestine.
The Wayanad MP has always been outspoken about the Palestinian cause. Earlier, she had worn a black-and-white keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian scarf, while meeting with Palestine embassy charge d’affaires Abed Elrazeg Abu Jazer.
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Gandhi has been vocal in her criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza. In October last year, she accused the country of violating international law and slammed the Modi government for its lack of efforts to broker peace in the region. “As a woman, a mother, a human being, I am ashamed that the world is allowing these crimes to be committed with such impunity,” wrote Gandhi in an X post.
Calling the situation in Gaza “barbaric,” the Congress leader in June condemned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and urged countries across the world to denounce the “genocidal actions.”
She had said that it was no longer enough to speak up for the civilians, mothers, fathers, doctors, nurses, aid workers, journalists, teachers, writers, poets, senior citizens, and the thousands of innocent children who were being wiped out day after day by the “horrific genocide” taking place in Gaza.
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“”It is the moral responsibility of every right-thinking individual, including all those Israeli citizens who do not believe in hatred and violence, and every government in the world to condemn the Israeli government’s genocidal actions and force them to stop,” she had said in an X post.
Meanwhile, during a press meet, BJP’s Sambit Patra remarked, “The Gandhi family has always been carrying the bag of appeasement. The appeasement bag is the reason behind their rout in elections.”
