Others have spent decades telling her story, and now it’s her turn, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi said on Tuesday (October 27, 2026), adding with a smile that there is bound to be some “tamasha” when her memoir comes out next month.
“There’s bound to be some tamasha when this book comes out. Gandhi described her late husband and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi as a very good-looking and gentle person. She shared her memories of their life as she made her debut on the social media platform X. This was Ms. Gandhi’s first foray into social media. Over the years, she has been using the Congress’ X handle to release her video statements or other messages and letters that she wished to make public. Several Congress leaders had raised issues of governmental pressure and freedom of expression with some alleging that there was pressure on Penguin India to remove sections relating to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the RSS and China’s occupation of Indian territory during the Modi regime.
In her debut post on X on Saturday (October 23), Ms.
After all, others have spent decades telling my ‘story’, now it’s my turn,” the former Congress president said in her post. “When my husband was asked to become the Prime Minister, which I was totally against….,” she says and drifts away. Last month, HarperCollins India said it will publish Ms. Gandhi’s 544-page memoir “Belonging: A Journey of Love” in India on November 10, ending the uncertainty over the book’s domestic publication following an “impasse” between the author’s representatives and Penguin Random House India (PRHI).
The memoir also delves into political events surrounding the Congress-led alliance’s victory in the 2004 elections, when Sonia Gandhi declined to become Prime Minister and instead led the party and its alliance, which governed India for a decade.
Earlier reporting noted: Sonia Gandhi said she was against her husband, Rajiv Gandhi, becoming the Prime Minister after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Earlier reporting noted: A lot has been written about former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, a lot of it, the Congress leader says, “either invented or exaggerated”. Now, she says, it is her turn to “put down my story” with her memoir, ‘Belonging: A Journey Of Love’. Or let us say my, not version, I wouldn’t say version, but my story,” Gandhi, who dropped the latest teaser from her memoir, said in a video posted on X when asked how it feels to write your own story after a lifetime of being written about.
Earlier reporting noted: “Well I felt since a lot had been written about me, and a lot of it was not quite correct, or you know it was either invented or exaggerated, so it gave me a feel of being able to now put down my story and describe facts and things as they were, as they really were.
