As Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi’s convoy passed from a street in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore, a handful of BJP supporters shouted ‘Modi, Modi’ at her, apparently in a bid to embarrass her.
But what happened next was something none of them could have imagined. The convoy suddenly stopped and Priyanka Gandhi quickly got down from her car and walked towards the slogan-shouting persons, the jittery Special Protection Group (SPG) commandos in tow.
The few moments between the Gandhi getting down from her car and she grabbing the hand of one of the Modi supporters standing on the roadside was a quick throwback to Mamata Banerjee’s “Jai Shri Ram’ act. But wait, Priyanka Gandhi was not upto throwing a tantrum (of course not in Bangla).
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Instead, the Congress leader, poised and smiling, shook hands with the Modi supporters one by one and wished them “All the best”.
“You are right in your place, I am right in mine,” she told the BJP supporters.
They wished her back. “All the best to you, too.”
Gandhi then embarked on her road show in Indore. She was accompanied by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel.
Earlier in the day, Priyanka Gandhi jumped a bamboo fencing and mingled in the crowd after a public rally in Ratlam.
Eight seats in Madhya Pradesh will go to poll on May 19 in the seventh and last phase of the Lok Sabha Elections.
