Sonia Gandhi "always disliked" politics and was at war with herself over whether she should take the plunge into the political world after her husband Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, but the Bhagavad Gita helped resolve her doubts and showed her the path forward. The former Congress chief, while talking about the internal conflict and turmoil she went through in the years before her active foray into politics, says in her new book that as the party was facing a challenging time in the late 1990s, each time she walked past Rajiv's picture and that of her mother-in-law Indira Gandhi's, a mixture of pain and guilt would seize her. She recalled how her children, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, "argued fiercely" with her as they feared she might allow herself to get drawn into politics and "they didn't want to lose me, too". "I was caught in a war with myself: part of me recoiled at the world of politics, of the ambition and greed, hypocrisy and treachery that goes inescapably with the game of
Sonia Gandhi turned to Bhagavad Gita to resolve dilemma over politics
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Sonia Gandhi "always disliked" politics and was at war with herself over whether she should take the plunge into the political world after her husband Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, but the Bhagavad Gita helped resolve her doubts and showed her the path forward. The former Congress chief, while talking about the internal conflict and turmoil she went through in the years before her active foray into politics, says in her new book that as the party was facing a challenging time in the late 1990s,
Key Takeaways
- Sonia Gandhi turned to Bhagavad Gita to resolve dilemma over politics.
- She recalled how her children, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, "argued fiercely" with her as they feared she might allow herself to get drawn into politics and "they didn't want to lose me, too".
- "I was caught in a war with myself: part of me recoiled at the world of politics, of the ambition and gr
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