BJP slams Sonia Gandhi's memoir as whitewashing of Emergency

The BJP on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, criticised former Congress president <b>Sonia Gandhi</b> for attempting to justify the 1975 Emergency in her newly released memoir "Belonging: A Journey of Love". National spokesperson <b>C.R. Kesavan</b> said the book should have been titled "Whitewashing" and accused it of sugar‑coating the historical wrongs of the Nehru‑Gandhi family. Kesavan's post on X claimed the memoir tries to normalise the Emergency, which he described as a period that murdered the Constitution and suspended fundamental rights. He also questioned Gandhi's empathy for past tragedies such as the 1984 Sikh massacre and the 26/11 attacks. The BJP framed the criticism as a reminder of the Congress’s alleged damage to Indian polity over its decades in power and praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for correcting those historical sins.