'Like Indira': At Kumbh, Priyanka trumps her brother, but not Modi

Saurabh Tiwari, a contractor for the mela, says he will certainly not vote for the BJP this time

Outside one of the akharas in the Kumbh Mela area, a dairy booth owner is woken up by the noise of an approaching customer. The customer walks up to him for some lassi and begins political chatter: “Did you hear? They’ve announced that Priyanka [Gandhi Vadra] will also fight elections.” The booth owner, Sunil Kumar Tripathi, listens, and then says “it’s all nonsense” and that “only idiots will vote for her”. 

A little prodding by the customer led Tripathi to elaborate why a voter has to be an “idiot” to vote for Priyanka, the newest general secretary of the All