NEW DELHI: India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has accused opposition leader Sonia Gandhi of whitewashing historical wrongs by her Congress party in a memoir, sparking a new faceoff between the two sides ahead of key state elections.
Congress party leaders have in turn accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP of trying to create a spectacle and give the book a "political spin."
Titled "Belonging" and released on Tuesday, the memoir captures Italian-born Gandhi's journey from her student days in England, where she met her husband and Nehru-Gandhi dynasty scion Rajiv, to her integration into India's most powerful political family that gave the country three prime ministers.
Gandhi, 79, herself turned down the prime minister's job in 2004, but her family continues to control the party that has ruled India for periods totalling nearly 55 years since independence from British colonial rule in 1947.
