Sonia Gandhi recalls how ‘Indira amma’ connected Telugu people to her, Hyderabad-Vijayawada journey in 2004

HYDERABAD Sonia Gandhi’s attachment to the Telugu people of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana was rooted in her being ‘daughter-in-law of Indira amma’, rather than wife of Rajiv Gandhi or just herself ‘Sonia Gandhi’. In her memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love, Ms.

Sonia Gandhi recalls her warm interaction with Lambadi women in the combined Andhra Pradesh, who promised to vote for Congress as she was the daughter-in-law of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/review-sonia-gandhi-belonging-a-memoir-of-revelation-and-reticence/article71688499.ece She writes that her Jan Sampark programme had entered Andhra Pradesh after she had campaigned in Karnataka in 2004.

Her first stop was Hyderabad, where she visited Gandhi Bhawan, the Congress party headquarters. She describes the building as a “grand old building”, whose foundation stone Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel laid in 1950 and which the then President, Rajendra Prasad, inaugurated.