From The Indian Express
Center-Left Owned by Indian Express GroupSonia Gandhi memoir: Book courts Babri vote bank, papers over Bofors, family wrongs, says BJP
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The BJP on Tuesday criticised Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love, saying it tries to justify the Emergency and should have been titled “whitewashing”. The book recounts events such as the demolition of the Babri Masjid, the 2004 decision to decline the prime minister’s post, the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, her battle with cancer and other family matters. BJP leaders also accused the memoir of selective outrage and of attempting to shield the Gandhi family over the anti‑Sikh riots and other controversies.
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left · 4 outlets
In her memoir, former Congress president recalls 2010 conversation; Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter Sharmistha asks what there was to be shocked about, says it is not a crime to be ambitious
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From recalling the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the assassination of her husband Rajiv Gandhi to revealing her battle with cancer and explaining why she declined the prime minister's post in 2004, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi's memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love…
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New Delhi: More than three decades after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has still not seen the photograph of her husband's remains taken in the aftermath of the explosion. In her tell-all memoir, "Belonging: A Journey of…
