Priyanka Gandhi vs Amit Shah | "Maa Ke Aasu...": Priyanka Gandhi Snaps At Amit Shah's Jab

Who did Congress veteran Sonia Gandhi cry for? And for whom did she not? This was the subject of a barbed exchange between opposition leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Home Minister Amit Shah of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The setting - a Lok Sabha debate on the Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor, India's military response to a terrorist strike that killed 26 people, most of whom were civilians. Mr Shah's attack underlined the BJP's strategy during this debate - to attack the Congress over its track record of responding to terror attacks when the party-led UPA was in power. In an earlier section of his speech today Amit Shah also ripped into another senior Congress leader - P Chidambaram - for having asked for proof the terrorists behind the Pahalgam attack were from Pakistan. Mr Chidambaram suggested they may have been "homegrown". Priyanka Gandhi Vadra - who spoke after DMK MP K Kanimozhi delivered a history-shrouded warning to the BJP before next year's Tamil Nadu election - launched a scathing counterattack, accusing the BJP of intelligence and security failures that compounded the Pahalgam attack.