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Center Owned by Deccan Chronicle HoldingsBharat Summit: BJP Describes This As Attempt To Relaunch Rahul Gandhi
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The launch of Sonia Gandhi’s memoir “Belonging: A Journey of Love” revived discussion of late Pranab Mukherjee’s prime‑ministerial ambitions, as the book recounts Mukherjee’s 2010 suggestion for a change of guard at the top, prompting Pranab’s daughter to ask “Crime to be ambitious?” after Sonia’s remarks on the former president. The memoir also revisits the Babri Masjid demolition, the 2004 decision to decline the prime‑ministerial post, and the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. BJP leaders have criticised the book, calling it a white‑wash of the Nehru‑Gandhi legacy and labeling it “Whitewashing, not Belonging”.
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What Rahul Gandhi told Sonia Gandhi about Rajiv’s death 2 months before it happened
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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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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.
RSS excerpt
BJP state president N. Ramchander Rao accuses Congress of spending lavishly on Rahul Gandhi's political relaunch while Telangana's welfare dues remain pending.
