Wayanad (Keralam), Nov 12 (PTI) Sonia Gandhi's memoir that has earned the wrath of the BJP is her "right" to tell the truth in the face of the saffron party's "fabricated stories" and "lies" about her, the former AICC chief's daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Thursday.
While charging the BJP and the RSS with spreading falsehoods about Gandhi, the Wayanad MP also took an apparent jibe at the leaders of the saffron organisations, saying she was happy they were reading the just released book--'Belonging: A Journey of Love.'
"For most of my mother's adult life in India, the BJP, RSS, and many others have said whatever they wanted to say about her. They have told lies, they have fabricated stories, they have completely invented things and she has been quiet. Now she is telling her story. She has a right to tell her story," the Wayanad MP from Keralam asserted.
Priyanka was replying to reporters' queries regarding the BJP's reaction to her mother's book.
"For so long they have been telling lies about my mother. Now she is telling the truth. So obviously they are going to say that (it is false). What else can they say. Anyways, I am very happy they are reading her book," she added.
The BJP on Tuesday accused Congress leader Sonia Gandhi of trying to "justify" the imposition of Emergency in 1975 and giving a "clean chit" to her late husband Rajiv Gandhi over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in her memoir, and said her book "Belonging" should instead have been named "whitewashing".
'Belonging: A Journey of Love,' was released on Tuesday, inviting both positive and negative feedback regarding its content.
The saffron party had also alleged that Gandhi's memoir exposed her real face that "her tears flow for Muslim votes only" but they dry up when Pakistani terrorists kill Indians and Naxalites carry out "massacre of Sanatanis".
Vadra said that whatever her mother wanted to explain or whatever was her point of view, she has put in her book.
"Everyone has their own personal point of view. Everyone has their own story, right," she added.
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