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Owned by Bharatiya Prakashan (RSS)Sonia Gandhi memoir reopens debate around 1984 anti-Sikh riots: How the Army delay claim was busted 40 years ago
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Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the BJP and RSS have spread falsehoods about her mother, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, for most of her adult life and are now dismissing the account she gave in Sonia’s recently released memoir as false. She defended the memoir, saying Sonia has the right to tell her story. The memoir recalls a palmist’s prediction that Rajiv, not Sanjay, would become prime minister and also omits former prime minister Narasimha Rao, whose grandson criticised the omission as a habit of the Gandhi family to overlook its own leaders. She called the BJP’s criticism of the memoir false.
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Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s account of the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom in her memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love has reopened questions over the delayed deployment of the Army in Delhi, with official records cited in the Justice Ranganath Misra Commission report contradicting her version of events. In…
