PoliticsPhoto: Hindustan TimesSonia Gandhi Recalled Pleading with Rajiv Not to Become PM After Indira's Assassination
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi recalled pleading with her husband, Rajiv Gandhi, not to become India's prime minister after the assassination of his mother, Indira Gandhi, on October 31, 1984. She described the emotional moments after Indira was shot by her bodyguards at her residence in New Delhi. Rajiv, attending a rally in West Bengal, rushed back to Delhi and was soon asked to be sworn in as PM, which Sonia found deeply distressing.
Hindustan Times··New Delhi




