A memoir set in teary eyed lamentation and an explicit agenda, Sonia cuts a sorry figure
Sekhar Datta
November 11, 2026
Political memoirs seeking to set an electoral agenda at the cost of truth and ridiculous virtue signaling often ends up in the dustbin of history in the collective memory of readers and followers. Of course to the spineless Congressi elements who always look up the dynastic successors for inspiration and loaves and fishes of power the exercise in false pretensions mean nothing. Their priority now is to perform well in the string assembly elections slated for next year, so that the more affluent among them can replenish the huge sums of money kept in banks in foreign tax havens , otherwise the capital deposit will erode because of safe keeping charge deducted by the dubious bank owners. Hence the desperation !
Be that as it may, Sonia Gandhi’s memoir , an image rebuilding exercise at best and setting political agenda at worst, has expectedly ignited controversy . Sonia has shed copious tears over the Batala house encounter in Delhi and the legitimate killing of dangerous Muslim terrorists . But what actually had happened that day remains the moot question.It was on September 19 2008 that a special service unit of Delhi police had raided a Batala house flat to nab the culprits involved in the Delhi serial bomb blasts on 13th September. In the ensuing encounter two Indian Mujaheedin monsters were shot dead but on the same occasion a brave Delhi police officer Mohan Chand Sharma also fell to militant bullets . The case dragged on in supreme court for thirteen years till 2021 when the apex court declared the encounter as valid and sentenced another Indian Mujahideen monster to death . But Sonia kept her tears reserved for the slain terrorists and was ostensibly shocked beyond belief over the killing of rabidly anti-national terrorist.
Come the question of Kashmir and she is silent in full knowledge of how the 5 lakh Hindus, original residents of the valley, had been hounded out from January 19 1990 when all the microphones fitted on mosques across the valley launched a cacophonous campaign asking the Hindu residents to leave forthwith en masse , leaving behind their properties and women. This was followed by the fiendish gang-rape and murder by chain saw of Hindu woman employee of a Bandipura school Girija Tikku who had been enticed to visit school and draw her monthly salary. The hapless Girija duly went to the school to be only carried away by the terrorist monsters for gang-rape and murder by mutilation with a chain saw in June 1990. Yet again on April 15 that year Sarla Bhatt, an innocent Hindu nurse at work in the Sher-e-Kashmir state institute of medical sciences in Srinagar had been kidnapped by the psychopathic killer Yasin Malik, a darling of the former prime minister Manmohan Singh, and his fiendish cohorts before being gang-raped, tortured and killed by mutilation of body. The murder of Jammu and Kashmir high court judge Neel Kanth Ganju by the monsters of the same JKLF led by Yasin Malik is too well known to bear repetition in detail. But none of these incidents shook the mind and memory of the mysterious lady of Congress.
Sonia also recalled how she had shed profuse tears over the demolition of Ayodhya’s dispute structure-that is , so-called ‘Babri Maszid- while seeing the demolition live on TV channels . Now who will answer how she could see the demolition live when there was no satellite TV channel, or even cable TV channel. There is not a word of condolence on the killing of officially counted 16 persons by Maulana Mulayam Singh Yadav’s police in 1990 during the ‘Kar Seva’ congregation. Without going into length, suffice it to say that the citadel of falsehood and agenda-based political manifesto which Sonia tried to build through her memoir, definitely penned by a paid and ‘Pitthu’ journalist , will cut little ice with the conscious and informed readers .
But the memoir abounds with other gems and revelations : emergency of 1975 and excesses committed under it have been squarely laid at the door of Sanjay Gandhi. Late President Pranab Mookherjee’s ambition to become prime minister in 2010 through a change of guard at the top caused an unedifying surprise to the supposed authoress. The roasting alive of 59 Hindus, mostly women and children in the infamous Godhra train burning case has been attributed to ‘disputed versions’ and Muslims were the real losers in the Gujrat riots, no reference to the 254 Hindus killed by the Muslim rioters. Not a drop of tear has been shed for the hundreds of Indians killed by a long series of blasts as a matter of annual ritual between 2004-2013, by Pakistan sponsored Muslim terrorists , not even the massacre of 166 Indians in the 26/11 perfidy. There is no reference either to how the relation between herself and the then prime minister P.V.Narasimha Rao had soured beyond repair. The so-called memoir is also marked by a major discovery : prime minister Narendra Modi never looks her in the eyes- that too after Modi had been abused as ‘Maut ke Saudagar’ in 2002 and cultivator of ‘jawhar ke ksheti’ in 2007. This is neither a memoir nor a factual history but lay-out of an agenda that exposes disregard for truth and total lack of even sincerity. As the Congress’s longest-serving president and a professional politician of long-standing Sonia might draw inspiration from Georgia Meloni, the prime minister of her country of origin , Italy to learn and unlearn.
(Tripurainfo)
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