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Center Owned by The Tribune TrustEmergency a mistake, cried over Babri demolition: Sonia
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Sonia Gandhi’s memoir Belonging recounts the horrifying moments after Indira Gandhi was shot, describing the hospital ordeal and how she broke the news to her children Rahul and Priyanka.
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New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi believes the Congress has been “too complacent” and there was a “laissez-faire kind of attitude” in tackling BJP and that keeping Sanjay Gandhi “in check” during the Emergency could have prevented “much of the damage" that followed. The 79-year-old Congress Parliamentary…
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New Delhi: Weighing in on the Emergency, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has called the decision to impose it a mistake and said that she believes that her mother-in-law and then prime minister Indira Gandhi also came to feel the same. The Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson in her upcoming book…
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Sonia Gandhi reveals her belief that the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi was a significant mistake. She suggests that if Sanjay Gandhi had been kept in check, much of the subsequent damage could have been avoided. Indira Gandhi's decision was influenced by various pressures, including those from…
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Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi has described the decision by her mother-in-law and then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to impose the Emergency as a mistake and said she cried while witnessing the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992. In an interview with British daily…
