Sonia Gandhi trying to justify Emergency, memoir should've been named ‘Whitewashing’: BJP
The comments from the ruling party came on the day Sonia Gandhi’s memoir was released, in which she weighed in on the Emergency imposed in the country in 1975 and called it a mistake
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) criticized former Congress president Sonia Gandhi for attempting to justify the Emergency in her new memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love. The BJP's spokesman, C.R. Kesavan, stated that the book's title should have been "Whitewashing" as its purpose appears to be sugarcoating the historical wrongs committed by the Nehru-Gandhi family and concealing the Congress party's grave mistakes.
Kesavan questioned whether Gandhi shed tears for the victims of the 1984 Sikh Massacre, the Batla House terrorists, and the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, all of which occurred during the Congress government's rule. He also highlighted the damage the Congress regime inflicted on the nation's democracy during its nearly 55-year rule.
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