Cong trains gun at Irani for her remarks on Priyanka

The Union textiles minister had on Thursday said that Priyanka is not campaigning in Amethi due to unfulfilled promises made by her party to the people.

Irked by Smriti Irani's remark on Priyanka Gandhi about not campaigning in Amethi, the Congress on Friday tried to rake up the row over the textile minister's education qualification.

Senior Congress leader PC Chacko told news agency ANI that it was none of Irani's business to pass remarks on where Priyanka should campaign. He said the former HRD minister has a pending case about her educational qualification, adding that she has a lot to answere on that.

Chacko said that Irani had in fact given directions the her department to not divulge details of her education to an RTI query.

The Union textiles minister had on Thursday said that Priyanka is not campaigning in Amethi due to unfulfilled promises made by her party to the people.

"Priyanka wants to avoid people's questions," she had reportedly said.

Priyanka will on Friday campaing alongside Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi in the party's stronghold Rae Bareli.

She is said to have played a key role in stitiching together the SP-Congress alliance for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.

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