Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao’s grandson, NV Subhash, has termed Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s memoirs a “pack of lies” and slammed her for deliberately ignoring the contribution of the former PM.
“As a member of late PV Narasimha Rao’s family, it was no big surprise for us that he was not mentioned in the book. She (Gandhi) will definitely and deliberately want to avoid the contributions made by him for the Congress party and the nation,” he claimed. “Narasimha Rao, the father of India’s economic reforms and the country’s first Prime Minister from the South, deserves recognition. Without him, could India have achieved those reforms? Questioning Rao’s omission from the memoirs, Subhash asked: “Why does Sonia Gandhi refuse to acknowledge his contribution to the Congress and the nation? He also helped keep the Congress party intact after Rajiv Gandhi’s death.
He lauded the NDA government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for recognising Rao’s legacy and awarding him the Bharat Ratna in February 2024.
Subhash, also the chief spokesperson for the BJP’s Telangana unit, accused Gandhi of deliberately ignoring the contributions made by Rao to the Congress party and the nation and said he was “not surprised” by the omission. Subhash said that it was a “habitual practice” of the Gandhi family to overlook and “belittle” its own leaders in order to highlight members of the Gandhi family. I respect Dr Manmohan Singh, but it was Narasimha Rao who chose him as Finance Minister and backed the economic reforms despite criticism, including from within the Congress,” he said.
