“Not since the days of the freedom struggle was such a complete separation of the objective of personal power and the objective of achieving social ideals seen,” the book stated.
“People looked upon Sonia Gandhi’s renunciation of power as reminiscent of the Mahatma,” it added.
http://news.oneindia.in/2010/12/28/cong-reveals-truth-behind-sonia-s-all-decisions.html
Let’s look what it has to say now on Sanjay gandhi, which, till Indira Gandhi was assassinated, did say that Sanjay was the beacon of India and one of Congress’s icons.
The Congress has all but disowned Sanjay Gandhi, blaming the excesses committed during the Emergency of 1975 on his overzealous promotion of family planning and slum clearance programme.
The rare assessment of the Emergency and the person responsible for the popular anger has come in the party’ s official history where it has attempted to walk the tightrope between defending stalwart Indira Gandhi and the stigma that her decision to suspend the Constitution in 1970s carries.
Cong blames Sanjay Gandhi for Emergency ‘excesses’ – The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Cong-blames-Sanjay-Gandhi-for-Emergency-excesses/articleshow/7181279.cms#ixzz19Z7430Y8
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