There are some mistakes and some almost blunders in her book. But because it is Sonia Gandhi ....
The account of Rahul Gandhi’s criminal defamation case contains inaccuracies.
Sonia Gandhi writes that the case was brought in 2023 over remarks made three years earlier and that the Gujarat High Court sentenced her son to two years in prison.
The remarks were made during a campaign speech in April 2019, and the complaint was filed that year.
A magistrate’s court in Surat delivered the conviction and sentence on March 23, 2023. The Gujarat High Court subsequently declined to stay the conviction.
However, on August 4, 2023, the Supreme Court stayed the criminal defamation conviction and two-year prison sentence of Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his 2019 "Modi surname" remark.
Many say Sonia Gandhi was "ill-advised" with this book project. The callousness is humungous in some ways.
Former Congress president and now CPP chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who has spent more than two decades in Parliament and now sits in the Rajya Sabha, makes a rather surprising assertion in her memoir.
Describing India’s parliamentary system, she writes that Lok Sabha members are elected while Rajya Sabha members are nominated.
Fact check - as many as 238 Rajya Sabha members are indirectly elected by state legislatures.
Only 12 are nominated by the President. "It is a basic constitutional distinction, and an unexpected error from someone who has been at the centre of Indian parliamentary politics for so long," says 'India Today'. Move over. There are some Sickular editors - one from Chennai - who claims Sonia started working on the book some years back !! Ting tong ...
What's in a name ... You are never a dedicated 'Hindu' !!
'Sleeping' and mistakes ?
Sonia does another mistake. She describes the 'fall' of Vajpayee’s government in April 1999 as a defeat on a no-confidence motion.
The Fact -- The Vajpayee Govt lost a "confidence motion" by 269 votes to 270.
Congress and Sonia Gandhi did enough politics with Godhra and the Gujarat mayhem of 2002. But her memoir says --
There were 'four coaches' of the Sabarmati Express -- those were set on fire at Godhra on Feb 27, 2002.
Fact -- the fatal blaze involved only coach S-6.
Sonia Gandhi writes that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was founded in 1921.
It was established by Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in Nagpur in 1925.
Her account of Ahmed Patel, her long-serving political secretary and one of her closest confidants, places his death from Covid-19 in 2022.
Ahmed Patel actually died on November 25, 2020.
Sonia Gandhi also calls Ahmedabad 'capital' of Gujarat --- fact is -- it is Gandhinagar.
RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar
There are few other mix-ups.
She is correctly states that the BJP won 282 Lok Sabha seats in 2014 but puts the National Democratic Alliance's tally at 353.
The NDA actually won 336 seats that year.
NDA won 353 seats the 2019 election. In its account of the 1984 election, the book also gives Congress 405 seats in one passage and 404 in another.
Sonia also enters problematic area with her account of the 1999 Kargil conflict against Pakistan.
Sonia Gandhi gets confused or the 'ghost writer' was imagining something to state that the then Prime Minister, Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee. was being hosted in Islamabad by Nawaz Sharif when Ladakhi shepherd Tashi Namgyal spotted Pakistani infiltrators along the Line of Control.
Vajpayee’s historic peace visit was to Lahore on February 20–21, 1999.
Namgyal spotted the intruders on May 3, more than two months later.
The book says Indian soldiers regained the occupied territory over the following 10 months.
The Kargil conflict unfolded between May and July 1999, with India marking July 26 as Kargil Vijay Diwas.
Errors also surface in the memoir’s treatment of international affairs.
Sonia Gandhi dates Nelson Mandela’s visit to India to receive the Bharat Ratna to 1991.
Fact - Mandela arrived India in October 1990.
She identifies the leader of India’s delegation to Mandela’s 1994 presidential inauguration as President R.K. Narayan.
Fact -- The delegation was led by Vice-President K.R. Narayanan.
The 1985 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Nassau is described as the 49th such summit. It was the eighth.
Deng Xiaoping is called China’s president during Rajiv Gandhi’s landmark 1988 visit, although Yang Shangkun held that office.
Deng was China’s paramount leader and chairman of the Central Military Commission.
Vajpayee along with then Defence Minister George Fernandes and then Jammu and Kashmir Governor Girish Chandra 'Gary' Saxena with soldiers
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