Sonia Gandhi has not seen 'horrific' photo of Rajiv's remains taken after assassination: Book
Sonia Gandhi says Rahul and Priyanka shielded her from graphic images after Rajiv Gandhi’s killing, and she still has not seen the remains photo.
- Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi shares personal reflections on the May 21, 1991, assassination of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in her newly released memoir 'Belonging: A Journey of Love,' documenting the tragic event's aftermath.
- Rahul Gandhi had warned his mother two months earlier he would "soon have to come back for his funeral" if security failed, following the VP Singh government's decision to withdraw Rajiv's Special Protection Group cover.
- To shield her from horrific images, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi instructed staff to vet every newspaper, a protective measure Sonia describes while noting she has not seen the photo of his remains for over thirty years.
- After the funeral, Sonia, Rahul, and Priyanka immersed Rajiv's ashes at the Sangam in Allahabad, a ritual that evoked memories of a prior boat trip with Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi where he had explained the rivers' significance.
- Following the tragedy, Sonia's sister Nadia urged her to return to Italy, but Sonia refused, asserting "It is my country, my children's country," choosing to remain and engage in her public life in India.
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Sonia Gandhi Reveals In Memoir She Has Never Seen Photograph Of Rajiv’s Remains
<p><strong>New Delhi:</strong> More than three decades after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has still not seen the photograph of her husband's remains taken in the aftermath of the explosion.</p> <p>In her tell-all memoir, "Belonging: A Journey of Love", former Congress president Sonia Gandhi says her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra deliberately kept…
Sonia Gandhi Gives an Intimate Account of Her Husband Rajiv Gandhi’s Final Days and Assassination
In an exclusive excerpt from her new memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, the president of the Indian National Congress opens up, for the first time publicly, about losing her husband, the former prime minister of India, to political violence, surviving “that night of horror,” and navigating grief.
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Times of IndiaSonia Gandhi has not seen 'horrific' photo of Rajiv's remains taken after assassination: Book
In her tell-all memoir, "Belonging: A Journey of Love", former Congress president Sonia Gandhi says her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra deliberately kept the image from her, instructing their staff not to hand her any newspaper or magazine without vetting it.
Sonia Gandhi has not seen ‘horrific’ photo of Rajivs remains taken after assassination: Book - The Tribune
More than three decades after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has still not seen the photograph of her husband's remains taken in the aftermath of the explosion.
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