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Posters showing Robert Vadra’s face, along with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice president Rahul Gandhi, during the mega ‘Loktantra Bachao Yatra’ (or ‘Save Democracy’ march) have sparked rumours of him finally dipping his toes in the murky waters of politics.
However, the posters were reportedly put without sanction by a Congress worker and Gandhi loyalist.
In response to the poster with Vadra’s face being used in the march, the Bharatiya Janata Party termed the ‘save democracy march’ as ‘save dynasty march’, saying it is a march to save the dynasty from extinction.
“It’s an irony that the Congress is calling this a democracy march. Rather, it should call it a ‘dynasty march’. Please look around the march and you would find the hoardings and posters of a single family. You would see Vadra ji, Sonia ji and Rahul ji everywhere. So, definitely it is a dynasty march. It is a march to save the dynasty from extinction,” BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said.
The Congress president’s son-in-law had last month hinted that he may enter politics.
“I would not say never, let’s see what the future has in store for me,” he said when asked whether he would take the plunge into active politics.
Vadra has, in the past, campaigned for his brother-in-law Rahul Gandhi and his mother-in-law Sonia Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh, but never made campaign speeches or taken part in political meetings.