Rahul Gandhi stopped mother Sonia Gandhi from becoming Prime Minister, claims External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh!

Sonia Gandhi declined to become Prime Minister in 2004 because of strong opposition from her son Rahul Gandhi who was afraid she would be killed like his father and grand mother if she accepted th

Updated: July 30, 2014 8:37 PM IST

By Press Trust of India

Sonia Gandhi declined to become Prime Minister in 2004 because of strong opposition from her son Rahul Gandhi who was afraid she would be killed like his father and grand mother if she accepted the post, former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh claimed today.

Singh(83), an estranged Gandhi family friend who quit the Congress in 2008 after he had to resign from the UPA-I Government in 2005 in the wake of the Iraqi food-for-oil scam, claimed that it was not Sonia’s “inner voice” that prevented her, as she had stated at the time, to take up the PM’s post

To persuade him from not referring to this particular episode in his autobiography, the Congress president along with her daughter Priyanka Gandhi met him on May 7 at his residence but he decided to disclose facts as they were and tell the “truth”, Singh claimed in an interview to Karan Thapar on Headlines Today.

The book titled “One Life is Not Enough: An Autobiography” is due to be released soon. “Rahul was totally against her mother becoming Prime Minister. He said she would be killed like his father and grand mother and as a son he would not allow to become the PM. He was very adamant,” Singh said, recalling a May 18, 2004 meeting where Manmohan Singh, Gandhi family friend Suman Dubey, Priyanka and he were present. Manmohan Singh later went on to become the Prime Minister.

Rahul’s opposition was conveyed to them by Priyanka, he said.

“As a son full marks to Rahul,” he said. Rahul was 34 years at that time.

Singh claimed that Sonia also said “sorry” to him at their May 7 meeting after he narrated how he was victimised by the UPA government and refused to believe her claim that she was not aware of it.

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