WAYANAD, Nov 12: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday said her mother Sonia Gandhi had every right to tell her story and present her perspective through her recently published autobiography.
Responding to the BJP's criticism of the book, Priyanka alleged that the BJP, the RSS and others had long spread falsehoods and baseless stories about Sonia Gandhi.
For most of her adult life in India, the BJP, the RSS and many others have said whatever they wanted about my mother. She remained silent for so long. Now she has spoken about her life and her perspective. She has every right to do so.
Priyanka said she was happy that people were reading the book despite the criticism.
Sonia Gandhi's autobiography, Belonging: A Journey of Love, was recently published. The BJP on Tuesday alleged that the book sought to justify the decision to impose the Emergency in 1975 and absolve her late husband Rajiv Gandhi of responsibility for the 1984 anti-Sikh violence.
The BJP also said the book should have been titled Whitewashing instead of Belonging, and raised other objections to Sonia Gandhi's political positions and statements in the book.
Priyanka said every person had a perspective and a story, and that her mother had presented what she wanted to say in her own way.
