Wanted: echo of Indira's scream

March 13, 2015 10:55

The march has brought the Congress's focus back on Sonia Gandhi just when the party was reluctantly preparing for her "retirement" and replacement by son Rahul.

The enthusiasm among the Congress leaders reminded some of a 1998 march in Delhi when Sonia, having just taken over as party chief, led a protest against onion prices.

Rahul's absence from the march to Manmohan Singh's residence at 3 Motilal Nehru Marg was hardly missed today, raising some veterans' hopes that Sonia might hang around a little longer.

Sources claimed Sonia was viewing the summons to Singh as a political opportunity - like the one Morarji Desai's government had handed Indira Gandhi by arresting her in the late 1970s. Read

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