00:00BJP rebuts Sonia's emergency claim.
00:03Sonia Gandhi in her memoir has written that Indira Gandhi regretted the emergency.
00:08But the BJP is hitting back, pointing out that Rajiv Gandhi, that is Sonia Gandhi's husband,
00:13in 1985 had said emergency was the right step.
00:18Rajiv Gandhi had supported emergency in 1985 as well.
00:22That's the comment coming in from the BJP as Sudhan Shutravedi hits back at Sonia Gandhi's memoir.
00:29Let's listen in.
00:35In the emergency, I just want to say that I don't want to answer the questions on the issue of
00:41Sonia Gandhi.
00:44But I want to say that Rajiv Gandhi, I remember that Rajiv Gandhi in 1985,
00:55when it was 10 years over the emergency,
00:58when it was 10 years over the emergency,
01:01when it was 10 years over the emergency,
01:03when it was 10 years over the emergency,
01:04what did you say about it?
01:07He didn't say that I was against it.
01:09But Rajiv Gandhi had defended him, supported him,
01:17and he said that,
01:25that the BJP is now citing Rajiv Gandhi to attack Sonia Gandhi's memoir.
01:37Well, that's right, Anisha.
01:39What is basically happening here is that after the kind of statements,
01:43after the kind of claims that have been made by Sonia Gandhi in her memoir,
01:46where she says that the emergency was imposed because of the mischiefs of Sanjay Gandhi.
01:53Now, BJP is saying that Sanjay Gandhi is not alive to respond to what Sonia Gandhi has claimed in her
01:58book.
01:59But Rajiv Gandhi, after 10 years of imposing emergency,
02:03had defended emergency, saying that had emergency not been imposed,
02:06the situation would have been much worse.
02:09And if need arises, then the government would again think of imposing emergency.
02:15So, that's what Rajiv Gandhi had said, and that is on record.
02:17This is what the BJP is now saying.
02:19Now, it remains to be seen, now the Congress is going to react on this,
02:22but all these controversies basically happening after the big claim,
02:26which was made by Sonia Gandhi,
02:27when she says that emergency was imposed,
02:30not because of Indira Gandhi,
02:32but because of the actions those were taken by Sonjay Gandhi.
02:36Alright, thank you very much for that, Piyush Mishra.
02:38War of words over Sonia Gandhi's book,
02:40and it's clear that politics is going to continue as more extracts of the book continue to be discussed.
