Modi Party, ‘justifies state of emergency’. You, ‘BJP dismantles democratic institutions’
A memoir written by Sonia Gandhi entitled “Belonging: a journey of love” was published in India today, Indian and international media reported, saying the book conveys the former Congress party leader’s views on the last decades of India’s history, including the assassinations of her mother-in-law Indira Gandhi in 1984 and her husband Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, members of the “dynasty”. Indian “Nehru-Gandhi” politics.
Sonia Gandhi – born in Italy in 1946 – is also the mother of Rahul Gandhi, current leader of the Congress party, now in opposition, and of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, also a leading exponent of the same party. Sonia Gandhi married Rajiv Gandhi, nephew of the late Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, in 1968, three years after meeting him in Cambridge.
The BJP party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi – reports the PTI agency – criticized the book, accusing Sonia Gandhi of having attempted to “justify” the state of emergency – launched by Indira Gandhi in 1975 and which led to a period of 21 months during which civil liberties were effectively suspended – and declared in a polemical tone that the work should be entitled “whitewashing”.
For her part – writes the Ani agency on its website – Sonia Gandhi has in turn accused the BJP party, considered to have Hindu nationalist positions, of having “systematically dismantled the democratic institutions” in India.
