Even as Minister of State for Railways Ravneet Singh Bittu on Tuesday claimed that he would file a formal complaint against Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra seeking probe into circumstances under which she had sent him to meet protesting farmers during the farm law agitation where he was allegedly assaulted at the protest site, Punjab Congress chief Amarainder Singh Raja Warring hit back saying though strange not surprising that he has shamelessly tried to drag her into an incident that happened six years ago.
In a post on X, Warring said, “Though strange, but not surprising that Ravneet Bittu has shamelessly tried to drag Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi ji into an incident that happened with him six years ago.”
The Punjab Congress chief said that “it is so childish on his part to suggest that Ms (Priyanka) Gandhi deliberately forced him to go to the farmers’ protests where, he claims, he was almost lynched”.
“Needless to say that these charges deserve to be dismissed with the contempt they deserve. At the same time one feels sad and pity for Bittu that what he is forced to do to be in the good books of his masters,” the Congress Lok Sabha MP said.
His remarks came shortly after Bittu referred to the period when he was in the Congress–during the year 2020-21–when farmers held protests on the Delhi border areas.
Bittu said that at the time he had no reason to doubt Priyanka Gandhi’s intentions despite being aware of the hostility of the agitating farmers towards him.