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Mysterious foreigner: Kangana Ranaut targets Sonia Gandhi over Maneka's isolation

Mysterious foreigner: Kangana Ranaut targets Sonia Gandhi over Maneka's isolation

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India Today reported that actress Kangana Ranaut targeted Sonia Gandhi over Maneka Gandhi’s isolation. Sonia Gandhi’s memoir, “Belonging: A Journey of Love”, discusses tensions with Maneka Gandhi and notes she has never seen a photograph of Rajiv Gandhi’s remains. The book generated a frenzy at Khan Market bookstores and on online platforms before its formal launch. No further details about the targeting were provided in the excerpts.

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  • left · 4 outlets

    New Delhi: Top Congress leader Sonia Gandh i recalls her relationship with senior leaders who were of "particular help to me during my earlier days" in the party. Arjun Singh: Sonia calls him “perhaps the wisest and most experienced” among the leaders. “Pensive and grave in manner, more so when…

    Deccan Herald

  • center · 2 outlets

    New Delhi: Indira Gandhi cried while watching the harrowing visuals of the aftermath of Operation Blue Star in 1984, says Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, claiming that there were tears of pain and regret as well as of sorrow in the then PM’s eyes at the manner which the siege at the Golden Temple had…

    Orissa Post

  • right · 6 outlets

    In her tell-all memoir, "Belonging: A Journey of Love", former Congress president Sonia Gandhi says her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra deliberately kept the image from her, instructing their staff not to hand her any newspaper or magazine without vetting it.

    The Economic Times

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Left / Center-Left 4 (33%)
Center 2 (16%)
Center-Right / Right 6 (51%)

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  1. Orissa Post Center Eastern Media Ltd (Sambad Group)

    Sonia Gandhi reveals Rahul, Priyanka shielded her from Rajiv’s remains photo

    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…

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  11. The New Indian Express Center Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd.

    Frenzy at Khan Market bookstores, Blinkit and Amazon list Sonia's book before formal launch

    NEW DELHI: Khan Market witnessed an unusual frenzy on Tuesday, with buyers making a beeline for Bahrisons Booksellers and Faqir Chand Book Store to get their hands on books by Sonia Gandhi. The rush was not just about buying a copy, as several visitors were also seen posing for photographs with…

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  14. India Today Center-Right Living Media India Current article

    Mysterious foreigner: Kangana Ranaut targets Sonia Gandhi over Maneka's isolation

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