<p class="title">BJP workers "cleansed" the statue of former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri minutes after Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra garlanded it in Varanasi on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to sources, around a dozen saffron party workers "washed" the statue with 'Gangajal' (Ganga water) soon after Priyanka left after garlanding Shastri's statue.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Priyanka's husband is facing corruption charges... We can not allow the wife of such a person to touch Shastri's statue," a BJP worker said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Congress leaders slammed the saffron party and said that Shastri was a Congress leader.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It's the habit of the BJP to claim the legacy of others," a senior Congress leader said.</p>
<p class="title">BJP workers "cleansed" the statue of former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri minutes after Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra garlanded it in Varanasi on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to sources, around a dozen saffron party workers "washed" the statue with 'Gangajal' (Ganga water) soon after Priyanka left after garlanding Shastri's statue.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Priyanka's husband is facing corruption charges... We can not allow the wife of such a person to touch Shastri's statue," a BJP worker said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Congress leaders slammed the saffron party and said that Shastri was a Congress leader.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It's the habit of the BJP to claim the legacy of others," a senior Congress leader said.</p>
