Sonia Gandhi’s memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love has gone on sale, offering an account of her family life and political career. The book was published by HarperCollins India, DW reported.
The former Congress president has described it as a personal rather than a political book. It follows her journey from Italy into the Nehru-Gandhi family and recounts the assassinations of her mother-in-law, former prime minister Indira Gandhi, and her husband, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
In BBC’s account, the memoir also describes Gandhi’s decision not to become prime minister after Congress won the 2004 election. Gandhi writes that her children opposed her taking the post and that she chose Manmohan Singh instead.
The book drew criticism from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Its national spokesperson C R Kesavan accused Gandhi of “sugar coating the historical wrongs” of the Nehru-Gandhi family, according to DW.
