{
  "id": 19296863,
  "title": "Sonia Gandhi trying to justify Emergency, memoir should've been named ‘Whitewashing’: BJP",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/sonia-gandhi-trying-to-justify-emergency-memoir-shouldve-been-named",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-10T06:44:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sonia-gandhi-trying-to-justify-emergency-memoir-shouldve-been-named-whitewashing-bjp/article71685174.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Hindustan Times",
        "title": "Little real contact with Modi, but there is some common ground: Sonia Gandhi in memoir Belonging",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/little-real-contact-with-modi-but-there-is-some-common-ground-sonia",
        "published": "2026-11-10T00:52:14.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Times of India",
        "title": "Why Sonia Gandhi gave up PM post in 2004 despite UPA victory; memoir recalls moment",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/why-sonia-gandhi-gave-up-pm-post-in-2004-despite-upa-victory-memoir",
        "published": "2026-11-10T05:00:14.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "‘He shocked me’: Pranab Mukherjee dropped a PM hint, how Sonia Gandhi reacted",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/he-shocked-me-pranab-mukherjee-dropped-a-pm-hint-how-sonia-gandhi",
        "published": "2026-11-10T06:42:28.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}