Congress president Rahul Gandhi is often lampooned as “Pappu” – a colloquial sneer — but BJP’s Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma has gone a step further and referred to his sister Priyanka as “Pappu ki Pappi” during a poll campaign in Gautam Buddh Nagar.
“Pappu kehta hai main Prime Minister banunga… Mayawati, Akhilesh Yadav, Pappu…Aur ab ‘Pappu ki Pappi’ bhi aa gayi hai. Wo Priyanka kya pehle hamare desh ki beti nahi thi kya, Congress ki beti nahi thi kya, aage nahi rahegi kya? Kya naya leke aayi hai?