Sonia Gandhi's memoir reveals anguish over Rajiv becoming PM

Sonia Gandhi, in an excerpt from her memoir published by The Guardian, recalls pleading with Rajiv Gandhi not to accept the prime ministership after Indira Gandhi's assassination on October 31, 1984. She writes she felt 'as if a knife had been plunged into my heart.' Rajiv responded, 'They will kill me anyway.'

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