Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the All India Congress Committee General Secretary in charge of Eastern Uttar Pradesh and daughter of Sonia Gandhi, in a tweet said that she is the granddaughter of Indira Gandhi and dared the Uttar Pradesh government to take whatever action against her.
“As a public servant my duty is towards the people of Uttar Pradesh, and that duty is to bring the truth in front of them. My duty is not to propagate the government propaganda. Uttar Pradesh government is wasting its time in trying to threaten me. Take whatever action you want to, I will keep highlighting the truth. I am the granddaughter of Indira Gandhi, not an undeclared spokesperson of the BJP like some leaders”, Mrs. Priyanka Gandhi’s tweet in Hindi read.
Her tweet came following two instances of the Uttar Pradesh government responding to the claims made by her in social media accounts.
On June 21, the granddaughter of Indira Gandhi claimed in her Facebook account citing a media report that 57 girls tested positive at a shelter home in Kanpur with two girls being “found” pregnant of which one of them was HIV positive.
She drew parallels to the sexual abuse case reported in Muzaffarpur shelter home case in Bihar.
Again on June 22, she had tweeted citing a media report that 28 patients in an Agra hospital died after being admitted in 48 hours and said that the Agra model propagated by the state government was a failure. The District Magistrate of Agra responded to her tweet saying that her claim was untrue and that the Navbharat Times report cited a death audit in relation to the deaths of total COVID positive patients reported so far and that only 1336 cases with 79 deaths were reported.
संलग्न नवभारत टाइम्स द्वारा अबतक हुए कुल कोरोना पॉजिटिव मरीजों की मृत्यु के सम्बन्ध में डेथ ऑडिट का हवाला दिया है। पिछले 109 दिनों में #Agra में अबतक कुल 1136 केस एवं 79 मृत्यु हुयी है। "पिछले 48 घंटों में भर्ती हुए 28 कोरोना मरीजों की मृत्यु" की खबर असत्य है।@UPGovt@PrabhuNs_ https://t.co/9XtEIervvy
— District Magistrate Agra (@OfficeOfDMAgra) June 22, 2020
However, she went about tweeting on the same on June 23, citing the same numbers despite clarification from the DM.
आगरा में कोरोना से मृत्युदर दिल्ली व मुंबई से भी अधिक है। यहाँ कोरोना से मरीजों की मृत्यदर 6.8% है। यहाँ कोरोना से जान गंवाने वाले 79 मरीजों में से कुल 35% यानि 28 लोगों की मौत अस्पताल में भर्ती होने के 48 घण्टे के अंदर हुई है।
‘आगरा मॉडल’ का झूठ फैलाकर इन विषम परिस्थितियों..1/2 pic.twitter.com/HUMx9LNU1q
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) June 23, 2020
On June 25, the State Child Rights Panel issued a notice to Priyanka Gandhi and asked her to file a reply within 3 days for her misleading comments on the shelter home.
Her dare to the UP government comes in light of these incidents.