<p class="title">Union minister Maneka Gandhi on Thursday parried a question on her niece Priyanka Gandhi joining national politics of the Congress.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The question was lobbed by media persons at Maneka, wife of late Sanjay Gandhi and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), soon after she concluded her address at a function organised here to mark the National Girl Child Day and came down from the stage to leave the venue.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They asked for Maneka's view on Priyanka's entry into active politics and assuming a larger political role in Congress after having confined herself for decades to only two parliamentary seats represented by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Union minister, who has had an uneasy relationship with Sonia Gandhi family for long, declined to say anything on Priyanka and left the venue with her officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Maneka, who holds the Woman and Child Development Ministry portfolio in Modi government, is one of the most eloquent leaders in the BJP. She is also a Lok Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh. So is her son Varun Gandhi—both from the BJP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Most of the senior BJP leaders have been very vocal in dismissing the possible impact of Priyanka's entry into active politics from Uttar Pradesh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There is also a buzz in political circles that Varun, a BJP's Member of Parliament (MP), could change his political course as he is not very comfortable in the saffron party for quite some time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His supporters feel that he is not getting due attention in the BJP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Varun is known to have maintained a warm relationship with Priyanka.</p>
<p class="title">Union minister Maneka Gandhi on Thursday parried a question on her niece Priyanka Gandhi joining national politics of the Congress.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The question was lobbed by media persons at Maneka, wife of late Sanjay Gandhi and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), soon after she concluded her address at a function organised here to mark the National Girl Child Day and came down from the stage to leave the venue.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They asked for Maneka's view on Priyanka's entry into active politics and assuming a larger political role in Congress after having confined herself for decades to only two parliamentary seats represented by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Union minister, who has had an uneasy relationship with Sonia Gandhi family for long, declined to say anything on Priyanka and left the venue with her officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Maneka, who holds the Woman and Child Development Ministry portfolio in Modi government, is one of the most eloquent leaders in the BJP. She is also a Lok Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh. So is her son Varun Gandhi—both from the BJP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Most of the senior BJP leaders have been very vocal in dismissing the possible impact of Priyanka's entry into active politics from Uttar Pradesh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There is also a buzz in political circles that Varun, a BJP's Member of Parliament (MP), could change his political course as he is not very comfortable in the saffron party for quite some time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His supporters feel that he is not getting due attention in the BJP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Varun is known to have maintained a warm relationship with Priyanka.</p>
