"The Kids Are Worried": Robert Vadra On Wife Priyanka Gandhi's Arrest

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was arrested Monday while on her way to Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri to visit the families of farmers killed in Sunday's violence.

Businessman Robert Vadra, husband of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Wednesday spoke out against the manner in which the administration in Uttar Pradesh blocked his wife from visiting the families of the victims of violence in Lakhimpur Kheri.

"The way I look at it, that if Priyanka was allowed to go and meet the families of the victims, she would have gone and met them, helped them... the Congress would extend support, but then she was stopped, she was pushed and shoved, and the videos went viral, and then she was detained too. Had they just allowed her to go and meet, she would have gone, and all would have happened peacefully and all would have been under control," Mr Vadra told NDTV in an interview.

"Sunday evening we were all together - my children were there too. But she is always working, even when we spend time as a family. She suddenly told us that she needs to leave for UP... it was shortly after 8 pm. She told me what happened and that she wants to go and meet the families of all those who died in the incident," he said.

"She plans to meet all the families - all those who have died... she does not differentiate, so she will meet all those who died," Mr Vadra said, adding that their children had been worried about the prolonged detention of their mother.