As Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party was celebrating two years in power with song and dance while the poor in the country were dying because of abject neglect, Amit Shah, president of the party, invoked Kalavati.
"What happened to that Kalavati at whose house you stayed?" he asked on Sunday. "We have tried to provide electricity and also gas to her. He (Gandhi) just got a photograph taken (with her)," he said.
Kalavati Bandurkar became the face of farm widows in Vidarbha after Gandhi visited her in 2008 and narrated her plight in Parliament.
