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NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi feared his mother would be killed like his father and grandmother if she accepted the post of prime minister in 2004, former foreign minister Natwar Singh has said in his new book.
In excerpts quoted by the Indian Express on Thursday, Mr Singh described his estranged Congress party boss as “authoritarian” and “capricious”, “Machia-vellian” and “secretive.”
The former minister asserts that the only reason for Sonia not taking the plunge was Rahul Gandhi who was vehemently opposed to his mother becoming prime minister since he feared she would lose her life just as his grandmother and father had, the Express said.
“Rahul said he was prepared to take any possible step… Rahul is a strong-willed person; this was no ordinary threat,” Mr Singh writes.
In Mr Singh’s autobiography, One Life is Not Enough, the author, in a five-page epilogue, says that what Sonia has “achieved” is the reduction of one of the “greatest political parties” of the world into a “rump” of 45 members in the Lok Sabha. And hopes that with a “commanding majority”, Narendra Modi, as PM, will “restore the image” of the country.
Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2014
In excerpts quoted by the Indian Express on Thursday, Mr Singh described his estranged Congress party boss as “authoritarian” and “capricious”, “Machia-vellian” and “secretive.”
The former minister asserts that the only reason for Sonia not taking the plunge was Rahul Gandhi who was vehemently opposed to his mother becoming prime minister since he feared she would lose her life just as his grandmother and father had, the Express said.
“Rahul said he was prepared to take any possible step… Rahul is a strong-willed person; this was no ordinary threat,” Mr Singh writes.
In Mr Singh’s autobiography, One Life is Not Enough, the author, in a five-page epilogue, says that what Sonia has “achieved” is the reduction of one of the “greatest political parties” of the world into a “rump” of 45 members in the Lok Sabha. And hopes that with a “commanding majority”, Narendra Modi, as PM, will “restore the image” of the country.
Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2014
Something closer to the ground, FEAR FOR LIFE !!
