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Center-Left Owned by The Printers (Mysore) Pvt. Ltd.'Keeping Sanjay in check could have prevented damage': Sonia Gandhi says Emergency was a mistake
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Sonia Gandhi said that India was her home and her children’s home, which is why she never left the country after the assassination of her husband Rajiv Gandhi. She recalled pleading with Rajiv not to become prime minister after Indira Gandhi’s death, fearing he would be targeted. Gandhi also described the Emergency as a mistake and said that keeping Sanjay Gandhi in check could have prevented much of the damage that followed, adding that the Congress has been too complacent in confronting the BJP.
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left · 6 outlets
New Delhi: Weighing in on the Emergency, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi has said democratic rights had been curtailed but it was done constitutionally, and when she sees from Indira Gandhi's point of view, the then prime minister was struggling to cope with the rapidly…
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center · 6 outlets
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…
— DT Next
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right · 4 outlets
Veteran Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has asserted that her party does not need to learn anything from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rise to power, emphasising that India's fabric of democracy has suffered a "great…
— India TV
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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…
