‘Should've called it Whitewashing, not Belonging’: BJP slams Sonia Gandhi's memoir

New Delhi: BJP on Tuesday took a dig at former Congress president Sonia Gandhi for "justifying" the Emergency in her memoir and said the book should instead have been named 'Whitewashing'.

The motive of the book appears to be "sugar-coating the historical wrongs perpetrated" by the Nehru-Gandhi family, BJP's national spokesperson CR Kesavan stated on X.

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BJP leader HS Phoolka also accused Sonia Gandhi of "misleading" the people and alleged that the Congress leader has given a "clean chit" to her husband Rajiv Gandhi by blaming the then Army chief AS Vaidya for the delay in the deployment of armed forces in Delhi after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination on October 31,1984.

Speaking to reporters at the BJP headquarters here, the Supreme Court lawyer, who has been fighting cases of anti-Sikh riot victims, claimed that Gandhi's assertion in her book that Vaidya had received his orders the same night as the assassination and decided not to mobilise the nearest units because they were manned by Sikh soldiers and called units from Dehradun is "against official records".

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"Gen Vaidya never said that he had instructions from Rajiv Gandhi or the prime minister. Gen Vaidya said that he had himself checked (the availability of Army units) in Delhi," he claimed. "It is a massive attempt to mislead people in India and across the world. In her book, Sonia Gandhi is giving a clean chit to Rajiv Gandhi and her family..."