India, Sept. 28 -- Differences within the Vikhe-Patil family have spilled out into the open following a public exchange between member of the Swedish Parliament Nila Vikhe-Patil and her uncle Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil and cousin Sujay Vikhe-Patil over her recent electoral victory.

Nila - who was elected to the Swedish Parliament from the Stockholm City constituency on September 13 on a Green Party ticket - questioned the attempts by her uncle and cousin to associate themselves with her victory saying that she had not been in contact with them for nearly a decade.

The issue surfaced after Sujay, a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Ahilyanagar, remarked that while one member of the Vikhe-Patil family had lost the Lok Sabha (LS) e...