'They will kill you too': Sonia Gandhi's turbulent journey in Indian politics
Summary
Sonia Gandhi’s memoir recounts her experience of Indira Gandhi’s 1984 assassination and the grief that followed Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination in 1991. It also describes Sonia’s reluctance to enter politics before she later led the Congress party through two general election victories.Key Facts
- Indira Gandhi was assassinated on 31 October 1984 by two Sikh bodyguards.
- The article says the bodyguards killed Indira in retaliation for the Indian army’s operation at the Golden Temple earlier that year.
- Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister on the evening of his mother’s assassination.
- Sonia Gandhi says she warned her husband that he would also be killed.
- Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991.
- Sonia Gandhi writes that she initially resisted calls to enter politics.
- She later led the Congress party through two general election victories.
- Her new memoir is titled Belonging: A Journey of Love.
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