Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday won a 21-hour battle of nerves with Yogi Adityanath’s government, forcing it to let the families of the Sonbhadra victims meet her at the guesthouse where she had been lodged, before returning to Delhi. After Priyanka began a dharna on the guesthouse lawns, asking to be allowed to meet the Sonbhadra victims’ families, power and water supplies were snapped on Friday night. Local Congress workers rented a generator and brought drinking water from their homes for Priyanka and the 150 leaders and workers protesting with her. Priyanka, who seemed to have spent the night on the lawns — with about 5,000 party supporters gathered outside the gates — continued her dharna on Saturday. Around 6.30am on Saturday, 15 relatives of the victims, including eight women, arrived outside the guesthouse in two hired tempos from Umbha, 70km away, to meet Priyanka but were stopped a few metres from the gates.

Source: The Telegraph July 20, 2019 21:00 UTC