rajiv
Gandhi
was an unique example in Indian politics. He was the anti-politician who became
the Prime Minister without wanting it, perhaps without ever having dreamt of
it, at least until Sanjay Gandhi was around. Everything had come to him on a
platter: membership of Parliament, post of general secretary of the Congress,
and now the country’s topmost job. All of this in less than four years. In
March 1977, he had been under pressure from his wife, Sonia Gandhi, to leave
the country; when Sanjay Gandhi died, she was set against his getting into
politics even if it meant ‘just helping Mamma’; and if Sonia Gandhi could not
even press him this way or that on October 31, 1984, it was more because of the
failure of nerves all around.
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