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Center-Right Owned by Living Media IndiaGujarat Diwali tragedy: Father dies trying to save 2-year-old son, who also succumbs
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Sonia Gandhi’s memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love covers her decision to decline the prime‑ministerial post in 2004, recounts the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition, the 1991 assassination of her husband Rajiv Gandhi and her own battle with cancer. The book also details former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s fear that resigning in 1975 would split the Congress and empower the RSS, and mentions Sanjay Gandhi’s excesses during the Emergency. Sonia says she has never seen a photograph of Rajiv’s remains. The BJP has criticised the memoir as a white‑wash, with a spokesperson suggesting the title should have been “Whitewashing, not Belonging.”
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In memoir, the former Congress president describes visiting riot-hit Ahmedabad in 2002 and says Vajpayee was expected to dismiss Modi
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Congress leader Sonia Gandhi encountered a “most wrenching moment” in the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat riots when a father held up the slumped figure of his young daughter who had been sexually assaulted and cried to her for help, leaving her shattered and gripped with horror. Gandhi was visiting a…
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Ahmed Patel, "AP" as he was called in the party, was the Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat and had also advised former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
