Sonia Gandhi reveals how Pranab Mukherjee hinted at replacing PM Manmohan Singh
Gandhi says the remark came after differences with P. Chidambaram and reflects a long-held ambition for the top job, she writes.
- On Tuesday, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi released her memoir 'Belonging: A Journey of Love', disclosing she has had "practically no real contact" with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his more than 12 years in office.
- Gandhi rejects long-standing opposition allegations that she functioned as a "back-seat driver" during the United Progressive Alliance government, describing an "unspoken division of responsibility" between herself and then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that functioned smoothly.
- Recalling 2010, Gandhi writes that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee hinted "it was time for a change at the top," which she interpreted as his long-held desire to become Prime Minister; she later nominated him as the UPA's presidential candidate in 2012.
- Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's daughter, Upinder Singh, criticized the memoir as "nothing but a stab in the back" and "a mischievous, unethical exercise," highlighting ongoing sensitivities about the United Progressive Alliance legacy.
- While critiquing Prime Minister Modi's RSS-rooted ideology, Gandhi acknowledges he "worked his way to power" from an underprivileged background; the memoir uses politics as a framework for examining the values and experiences that shaped her life.
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At 79, this discreet woman publishes her memoirs, in which she returns to her destiny marked, in her words, by "love, duty, mourning and the search for a place to find her place". The book, entitled "Belonging: A Journey of Love" ("The feeling of belonging: a journey of love"), appears in English on November 10, while the Congress party she led for more than two decades is seeking to regain her political influence. For weeks, her son Rahul, lead…
This is the most anticipated political-literary event of the end of the year in India. Sonia Gandhi, who has become one of the country's most influential women, publishes her memoirs Belonging: A Journey of Love (a love journey) is published this Tuesday in bookstores. A long-standing political figure, Sonia Gandhi, traces her journey from her Italian childhood to her marriage with Rajiv Gandhi in 1968, before becoming a widow at the age of 44. …
Sonia Gandhi memoir: Read why Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka went to meet Natwar Singh in 2014
A fresh controversy over the Congress party’s internal power dynamics has erupted after former Congress president Sonia Gandhi made an interesting revelation about former President Pranab Mukherjee in her memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love, published by HarperCollins India on 10 November 2026. Recounting a 2010 conversation with Mukherjee, when he was serving as Finance Minister in the UPA-II government, Sonia Gandhi wrote that he had expressed…
India: Sonia Gandhi's memoir 'Belonging: A Journey of Love' released
The book goes through the Italian-born matriarch's journey with one of India's most politically influential families. It has already garnered political controversy, with the ruling BJP accusing her of "whitewashing."
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