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From the assassinations of her husband and mother-in-law to press stonewalling under Modi, Belonging offers an insider’s account of India’s political evolution

Sonia Gandhi has narrated the deeply personal account in her memoir, Belonging: The Journey of Love

Taking to X, BJP's national spokesperson C R Kesavan said the book appears to be an attempt to "sugar-coat the historical wrongs perpetrated" by the Nehru-Gandhi family.

Sonia Gandhi's memoir 'Belonging: A Journey of Love' details her rare interactions with PM Narendra Modi and their deeply contrasting visions for India.

In her book, Sonia Gandhi wrote that Priyanka was the one who informed her about a phone call regarding a bomb explosion with feared casualties in Madras, where Rajiv was campaigning.

Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in a suicide bomb attack in 1991 by a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in retaliation for his decision to send the Indian Peace Keeping Force to Sri Lanka

Sonia Gandhi, who had an inside view of developments during the period between June 1975 and March 1977, recalls how India woke up to the Emergency on the morning of June 26, 1975.

In a post on X, Sharmistha said her father had the political experience and record to aspire to the post, and questioned whether Sonia’s reaction reflected the fact that someone outside the Gandhi-Nehru family wanted the top job.

In her book, Sonia Gandhi recalled that at a reception hosted by then Prime Minister Vajpayee, Bill Clinton was soon "sizing up the most striking women" at the event.

Besides her criticism, Gandhi has acknowledged that Narendra Modi and she come from very different ideological worlds and background and that his idea of the country was vastly different from hers.

Recalling the immediate aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination, Sonia Gandhi writes that news of the killing spread rapidly.

In her memoir 'Belonging: A Journey of Love', Sonia revisits Maneka’s arrival in the Gandhi household, the disagreements that followed, Sanjay’s growing political ambitions, and the events after his death in 1980 that led to Maneka’s departure.

Sonia Gandhi, who led the Congress after Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, has written about the episode surrounding Venkateswaran’s exit in her memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, published by HarperCollins India.

The late Pranab Mukherjee, former President and a Congress veteran, suggested a “change at the top” during a chat with then-UPA spokesperson Sonia Gandhi