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Center Owned by The Tribune Trust‘It was done constitutionally’: Sonia Gandhi on Emergency, says Rajiv had ‘different’ point of view
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Sonia Gandhi told The TFI Post that she finally chose to write her memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, calling it a love story and a tale of her growing attachment to India, while recalling the hurt over the foreign‑origin row and the 2004 decision. She said she always disliked politics and was at war with herself after Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, but the Bhagavad Gita helped resolve those doubts. She defended Indira Gandhi’s 1975 Emergency as constitutionally done, noting that Indira later publicly expressed regret and apologized for its excesses, and warned that Congress workers have faced persecution and that the government has caused “great damage to India.”
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New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi “always disliked” politics and was at war with herself over whether she should take the plunge into the political world after her husband Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, but the Bhagavad Gita helped resolve her doubts and showed her the path forward. The former Congress chief…
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NEW DELHI: Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has alleged that the Narendra Modi government has caused "great damage" to India's democracy, institutions and the country's social fabric over the past 12 years, warning that restoring the systems even after the government leaves…
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The former Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, has said she decided to write about her own life after years of others doing so, describing her memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, as a story of growing attachment to India as well as a love story. Gandhi made the remarks in a written interview to The…
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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 deteriorating…
