“I am Indiraji’s bahu and I’m scared of no one,” declared Sonia Gandhi after the Delhi high court summons to her and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case. In the remarkable transformation from Sonia, the Italian student in England, to Soniaji, the longest serving Congress president, family legacy has always been her lodestar. She is the ideal bahu, the family is her shield and her devotion to her in-laws is her sword. She expects every Congress member to worship at the family’s altar just as she does. “Is there any politician like Indiraji and Rajivji?” she once demanded with utmost personal conviction at a rally.
But today, when privilege is a bad word, when sons-ofthe-soil netas flaunt their up-by-their-bootstraps credentials Read More
