Not 'inner voice', Rahul Gandhi stopped Sonia Gandhi from becoming PM
31 July 2014 2:25 AM GMT
Rahul feared that she might be killed like his father Rajiv and grandmother Indira
Sonia Gandhi along with son Rahul Gandhi. (Photo: PTI/File)
New Delhi: Mrs Sonia Gandhi had refused to become Prime Minister in 2004 due to strong opposition from her son Rahul, who feared that she might be killed like his father Rajiv and grandmother Indira if she accepted the post, former external affairs minister K. Natwar Singh, once a key Gandhi family loyalist, claimed here on Wednesday.
Mr Singh, 83, now estranged from the Gandhi clan and who quit the Congress in 2008 after being forced to quit the UPA-1 government in 2005 in the wake of the Iraqi food-for-oil scam, claimed it was not Sonia’s “inner voice” that had stopped her taking up the PM’s post, as she had then claimed.
Mrs Gandhi had tried to persuade him to not refer to this particular episode in his memoir, One Life is Not Enough: An Autobiography.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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