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Sonia Gandhi recalls Rahul's lonely birthday after Indira's 1977 defeat
Rahul Gandhi's seventh birthday turned into a sombre affair after all but one of his friends skipped the celebration in the wake of his grandmother, Indira Gandhi's, electoral defeat in 1977. In her tell-all memoir, "Belonging: A Journey Of Love", Sonia Gandhi recalls the incident as a painful lesson in the fickleness of human relationships in the political sphere. "On Rahul's birthday, June 19, we'd barely managed to settle into our new home (12, Willingdon Crescent), but I was determined to h…
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