Priyanka slams Modi, says Duryodhana too had such arrogance; Shah hits back

In a veiled attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Tuesday said the Mahabharata character Duryodhana too had “such arrogance”.

The remark drew a sharp response from the BJP. “The people of the country will decide who is Duryodhana and who is Arjun,” its president Amit Shah said at public meeting later in West Bengal.

Addressing a Congress rally in Ambala, Priyanka Gandhi also hit back at Modi over his recent remark calling her late father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi “Bhrashtachari Number 1” (the most corrupt). She accused the ruling party of insulting the martyrs from