India, April 17 -- "Everyone in this room has been influenced, taught, learnt a lot from women in their lives," Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP and Leader of Opposition, said in the Lok Sabha on Friday, as he praised his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in particular.

"Yesterday I was watching my sister (Priyanka, who spoke in Lok Sabha on Thursday) achieve something in five minutes that I have not been able to in, maybe, 20 years of our political career, which was to make (home minister) Amit Shah ji smile," he said. Both Priyanka Gandhi and Amit Shah were not present, but it led to laughter across party lines. Priyanka came in later.

He said he would also want to learn that from her.

"I was feeling very proud as her older brother," he added, a...