IANS/Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Gandhi scion and Bharatiya Janata Part MP Varun Gandhi tied the knot with graphic designer Yamini Roy at a temple here yesterday morning, but his aunt Sonia Gandhi and cousins Rahul and Priyanka did not attend.
A group of priests, headed by Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati, performed the wedding rituals.
When reporters asked Gandhi why his cousin Priyanka Gandhi Vadra could not make it to the wedding, he said: “Priyanka is unwell.”
His aunt, Congress Party chief and United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi, and her son cousin and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi too did not attend the ceremony.
Asked how he was feeling now that he was married, an elated Gandhi said he was “feeling great.”
His mother, Maneka Gandhi said: “I want the entire country to bless the couple.”
Holding his mother’s hands, Gandhi , 30, stood besides Yamini, 28, as shutterbugs jostled for space to get the best shot for the much-awaited ceremony.
“Both of them will lead a happy life,” Saraswati said.