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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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Rahul Gandhi's seventh birthday turned into a sombre affair after all but one of his friends skipped the celebration in the wake of his grandmother, Indira Gandhi's, electoral defeat in 1977. In her tell-all memoir, "Belonging: A Journey Of Love", Sonia Gandhi recalls the incident as a painful…
