{
  "id": 19490569,
  "title": "'I Wish I Hadn't Opened My Mouth' Rajiv Gandhi Regretted Sacking Foreign Secretary In 1987, Reveals Sonia Gandhi",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/i-wish-i-hadnt-opened-my-mouth-rajiv-gandhi-regretted-sacking-foreign",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-11T11:35:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/i-wish-i-hadnt-opened-my-mouth-rajiv-gandhi-regretted-sacking-foreign-secretary-in-1987-reveals-sonia-gandhi"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "New Delhi, Nov 11: Then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had told his wife Sonia that he had committed a \"blunder\" by sacking then foreign secretary A P Venkateswaran at a press conference in 1987 and wished that he hadn't opened his mouth. Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has narrated the incident in her newly released memoir \"Belonging: A Journey of Love\" while talking about Rajiv's temper. \"There were…",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  },
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  "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."
}