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Natwar Singh says Sonia mistreated him
by IBNS 01 Aug 2014, 01:21 am
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New Delhi, Aug 1 (IBNS) Former Congressman and ex-foreign minister Natwar Singh, whose forthcoming book criticising Congress president Sonia Gandhi has generated a row, in an interview referring to the latter said "no Indian would have treated me this way."
On the role of Sonia Gandhi in not allowing to counter the corruption allegations against him when he was suspended, Natwar Singh told NDTV: "We have a tradition that people who are older than you...you give them regard....anyone not born in India would not know this."
In a significant revelation, country's former external affairs minister (who was suspended by Congress and had to exit UPA government after the Volcker Committee Report on the Oil for Food scandal in 2005) Natwar Singh has claimed that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi did not allow his mother Sonia Gandhi from becoming the Indian Prime Minister in 2004.
Singh, however, admitted in the interview that without Gandhis as anchor, the Congress will disintegrate into five factions." "For the last 15 years, Sonia Gandhi has held the party together," he said.
He was also uncharitable on Rahul Gandhi whe