BJP accuses Sonia of whitewashing Emergency in memoir

The BJP on Tuesday hit out at former Congress president Sonia Gandhi for trying to “justify” the Emergency in her memoir, “Belonging: A Journey of Love”, and said the book should instead have been named “whitewashing”.

The motive of the book appears to be “sugar-coating the historical wrongs perpetrated” by the Nehru-Gandhi family, BJP’s national spokesperson C R Kesavan said in a post on X.

The comments from the ruling party came on



the day of the release of Gandhi’s memoir, in which she has weighed in on the Emergency imposed in the country in 1975 and called it a mistake. Gandhi said she believes that her mother-in-law and former prime minister Indira Gandhi also came to feel the same.

The Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson also wrote that keeping her husband Rajiv Gandhi’s brother Sanjay Gandhi “in check” could have prevented much of the damage that followed the imposition of the Emergency.