Who stopped Sonia Gandhi from becoming PM? Modi Vs Indira era & a lot more political scoop!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2023
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Neerja Chowdhury is a journalist and author of How Prime Ministers Decide. In a conversation with Manisha Pande, she talks about her book that looks at the inner workings of Indian PMs from Indira Gandhi to Manmohan Singh. She speaks about aspects that set apart Indira Gandhi’s era as the PM. She says, “Indira Gandhi had the ability to take risks… and unlike her father, she was not ideological.” She narrates an incident where Gandhi told a UP leader, “Mera baap sant tha, main nahi hoon (My father was a saint, but I am not).”
Chowdhury says one “can only conjecture” where India and the Congress would have been if Sanjay Gandhi was alive. She delves into Arun Nehru’s revelation about the Bofors scam, who stopped Sonia Gandhi from assuming the charge of the Prime Minister in 2004 and how Manmohan Singh did not give up on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
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People fanboying over Indira , she is reason behind 50% ill in our country today
Lol. She is the reason why banking system opened to the commoner
😂😂 very true
Like what?
Bcz suddenly u came to know that indira was a pro hin..
The way she shuts down the Anti Modi propaganda of Newslaundry 👏👏👏
16 17 or 18 years… and they remember Indira Gandhi…. Hard to digest.
Bakwas kar rahi hai aunty . Chamch hai . IG sex addict thi
It's a utter lie I bet they would have told Modi!
😂😂😂 sonia maino could never become pm because of being not an indian by birth. Nothing to do with rahul gandi. Stop fooling people!!😀😀😀
I ask again, wasn’t it Dr Subramanian Swami who stopped Sonia from being PM? So who’s bluffing, can someone please clarify? Thanks
We don't believe things coming out of his mouth😂😂
@@viveksingh-eo6pu thanks
After 2004 election when congress had a majority, party decided Sonia Gandhi to be elected as PM, BJP was up in arms. All hell broke lose. Rahul, Priyanka, Sonia Gandhi were behind closed doors not talking to anyone. They came out of the meeting and declared Sonia Gandhi refuses to be PM. It was a family internal decision given how xenophobic Indians are. They knew she would be dead in no time. Wise decision it was and gave us (we not deserving though) the best PM of all times
If refusing to be ruled by an Italian is xenophobia, then so be it. We indians are xenophobic. Proudly and unapologetically so!
@@pranjalmondal8572 we Indians are not but bhakts definitely are xenophobic 😂😂
Thankyou Neeraja for sharing and bringing out unknown facts like Rahul Gandhi stopping his mother from becoming PM. Sonia ji seeking blessings from Atalji and his advise to her.
I remember as a young girl, when I was in remote villages in Karnataka 45 years ago Indira Gandhi being loved as 'their Indramma'. She was popular with masses without today's social media, because she would visit places and meet masses.
Look forward to read your book🎉
Not really.
She was popular because the media was controlled by the government then. It was a socialist country where the state also ran the TV network and Radio.
These state run media would never criticize her and present her as Amma or whatever .
Manisha is the Don Quixote of journalism 😂 , with her imagined emergency.
Is there freedom to openly dissent, is there freedom of religion to practice and propagate, are not the police and bureaucracy under pressure from the regime, isn't there a crackdown on opposition parties, activists, journalists and any one who do not toe the Saffron line?!
Isn't there a general impression of fear and chaos in society?!
If yes, then indeed the situation is grim and emergency like!
@@alexanderpinto9759 so farm laws and CAA have been implemented? and opposition leaders have stopped winning elections after 2014? And channels like newslaundry and The wire are banned? Dont talk narratives, give examples.
@@alexanderpinto9759 no those are only in ur sectarian head.
Grow up.
@@Sara0.0.0.7 you need to stop immediately your progressing education from the now famed Whatsapp University, besides you also need to wake up from saffron drug induced stupor that you and your kind are constantly in!
Wake up before its too late!
What a wonderful interview given by a brilliant writer,she spoke succinctly chosing to be terse,very absorbing!!love Neerja's political acumen !!
'Undeclared emergency'.. Matlab kuch bhi bol do.. The journalist was clever to not ditto the word
Leftist godi media ka kam hi hai hyperbole !
Indra is killer MP
@@_rohit97 yeah but still words must be chosen very responsibly and anything divisive should be avoided
@@veneratenew Yaa I'm talking about Left's godi media who a presstitutes of the left.
Ja be gadhe godi media dekh. Sachai sehen nahi ho pati bhakton se.
A particular group of Journalist do a very balancing act in the game of neutrality with smart choice of words and instances; but reading between the lines and their gestures its very evident that they deeply admire and are in awe of Gandhi family. Most of the journalist I find have ideological positions and have biases towards personalities and parties(which is fine); but what I find strange is their lack of competence or to analyze the empirical evidences.
During his Greece visit, the Indian Prime Minister expressed the country's interest in acquiring the use of ports in Greece. The reason for the interest relates to the Adani Group, the billionaire tycoon Gautam Adani.
According to sources, Adani has focused on two ports, primarily that of Kavala and secondarily that of Volos, while he is also interested in Alexandroupoli.
- Greek Media
What’s wrong in that . I will benefit . I have Adani shares
@@manu18190 good for you not the nation
@@senthilnathanb1420 explain ? So you are ok if a foreign company makes money in Indian market? .
@@senthilnathanb1420 adani operates his business/ ports more efficiently than any other Indian operator. If you need info on this, check out prof Ashwath Damodaran from NYU Stern who has a video on adani / Hindenburg report. It was completely a farce.
@@manu18190 I have a problem with my Prime Minister acts in the interests of a particular business group !
By when we can see the full interview on the app
Bhai.. subscribe karle... Full interview abhi k abhi mil Jayega .. wait na kariyo.... It's really a great insight about our ex PMs... worth watching...
I see many comments extolling Indira as a strong PM. These people tend to forget that she used her will only to protect her power not India!
Who can forget the emergency.
what about 1972 ?
Did protected India and herself because there was no separation, she lived for the country.
Best PM's Vajpayee and Narashima Rao.(of course all attributed to Brahminical Patriarchy and not the individual).
Prime ministers of gravitas Nehru, Indira Gandhi and N. Modi. Prime ministers who made a difference Rajiv Gandhi & Manmohan Singh.
typical lutyen media views. inflation, unemployment were highest during Indira Gandhi era and economic growth were lowest. but media will NOT talk about it. Modi was treated extremely unfairly by media and he is right in NOT engaging them
When did Modi hold a press conference and he actually answered questions
He never will...the shadows of that interview with Karan Thapar will haunt him for the rest of his life.
@@jenniferlyngdoh7608 modi can tear apart anyone, like he did it with rajdeep and barkha, thing is he doesn't believe in PCs, he knows the masses and talks directly to them.
@@shivanshu111अच्छा मज़ाक कर लेते हो।
@@ankuj7808 majak to tumhare sath hoga 2024 mein shayd 2029 mein bhi
The only statement i remember.what Modi said in front of Media is Dosti Bane Rahegi infront of Karan Thapar.
Thanks 👍👍👍
Amazing points by an experienced journalist!
Madam Neerja interviews regarding her book is available without any subscription on all different media .keep your interview for yourself.
She nailed it on the head. If it was an undeclared emergency, we wouldn't be sitting and talking together like this. We shouldn't so irresponsibly use the term emergency. The fact that you are sitting out there , alive and not in jail, and you have a platform proves there is freedom
This idiotic statement from boomer uncles - oh you have the ability to criticise so clearly there is freedom. To talk about what cannot be said is the proof of freedom? You all have decided to live happily in Orwel’s 1984. She literally says politicians are doing one-way communication. The public servants have decided they are not accountable to questioning, they won’t hold press conferences, they won’t hold debates in parliament, all the national media is bought out by friends of modi and they push endless drivel at people. How many journalists and activists are in jail without trial right now? The shrinking space for freedom is the time to raise alarms- how would anyone speak after we reach worst case scenario. Apparently you all want to live in Orwellian India
Try to say something about a politician in front of him or her !
@@dia606go see debates every day there are bjp member MPs MLAs debating over current issues from one nation one election to ucc .
S1upid brain. Just knows nothing
It's a form of undeclared emergency, the symptoms of an emergency are clearly visible though, and suffice to say we are progressing towards that 'absolute' under the guise or facade of being a democracy, my apologies, 'Mother of Democracy!'
It's Jekyl and Hyde for the World at large, but here in our country, we all know it's a carnival, it's all a game of masks and every so often a gregarious circus!
Sadly, but truly, the 'jokers' own the Circus!
So should we wait till that time comes? Already so many journalists are behind bars. People who dare speak truth to power are being mishandled and pressured. Emergency is not a on off state its a process.
She has good political acumen.. Love listening to her
Impeccable
🔥🔥🔥WHY DID INDIRA GANDHI NOMINATED HERSELF FOR BHARAT RATN!
Thanks for correction on emergency part..
It is all very insightful, but I will always be hesitant to cast someone just because of family background. The same goes to businesses in India. Leadership is not rotated on the basis of talent. You are automatically eligible to be the face of a party/company based on your inheritance. I have my suspicions reserved.
Very astute comment!
This is India power works not skills and she is not God to tell truth
Great video
Much respect to Neerja Chaudhari ji .what fascinates me about social media that everyday you get to know that a new book is launched to understand , to deliberate
I proud of you news laundry
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From the grapevine close to the Gandhis, I heard that Arun Nehru and Arun Singh swindled the Bofors kickback. It was meant for Congress party funds. Both the Aruns disappeared from public life after the incident.
What is the point if they disappear? They made money to last a few generations. No action by CBI, IT, ED etc.
Sonia Gandhi and her children don't have greed for power . Indians should support them to save democracy .
They are not capable to lead a country either... Try leading a state first..
Kuch bhi 😂
Yes that's ways every PMO file was passed through national advisory committee headed by her or her aide be it national security files or other top secret files.
And that famous MOU between S Gamdhi and CCP of China .😊
I don't support democracy bcoz I don't like gandhi family
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Manisha only u have the guts to do newsance in Modi's undeclared emergency. Kudos ! 👏👏👏
Typical chamcha .😂😂😂😂
She and her alikes are so disgruntled with modi for not allowing chamchas like her to prosper
@@Real982axboss he is di licker
emergency yet people here are bashing the current establishment 👌🏽
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Newslaundry aka presstitution.
Please send me a link
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wow waiting for this! the price of the book is little bit more
Why dont u 1st upload on the app..
5:16 Noticed at this question the full answer has been selectively and mischievously cut out...
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It really surprises me , some people who are for democracy,
how easily asks about what if Sanjay Gandhi had become prime minister? not even the smallest hesitation.
Nothing against or with a party but isn't ironic that a single family controlled the power over a billion people for decades.
And you still can't get enough of it and yes all the others are conditioned only a few of you guys remained the carriers of wisdom.
This is sycophancy on another level. Congress was and is such a big party with so many good leaders. But they kept talking about Rahul Gandhi and Gandhi family. That's the problem here. I like newslaundry but this suck up a not good for their journalism.
Pv narshimarao , and atal vajpayee ji best prime ministers india ever had .
Nehru, Indra, Rajiv, VP Singh, MANMOHAN.
@@saravanamg7593 indira gandhi would be ashamed at today’s congress party 🫠😝
@@saravanamg7593Nehru, Rajiv, Manmohan are all failures. VP Singh too.
Narsimha Rao, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira were the real deal. All of them had a better leadership and ability to take tough decisions.
Puke worthy choice
This lady is a congress fan....
This much is enough I got idea what will be next conversation is worth watching free
sorry my condition is miserable I am struggling lot
jOKERS !!!!
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Awesome journalism by goti media
Plz explain about the corruption scandals that happened between 2004 and 2014.
Which scandals? Supreme Court hasn't proven anyone guilty
@@srikanthsv79 you have to prove which scandals didn't happen between 2004 and 2014 ? what improvement congress has done in 65 yeaers of rule?
@@ragavendhiranvb1147 as a South Indian with no BJP they have done a lot, bringing the nation to 12th I'm economy from not even being existent is a lot & SC hasn't proven any scams same as they haven't proven Modi guilty for Godhra riots
@@srikanthsv79 modiji best pm burnol parcel to you
@@ragavendhiranvb1147 as a South Indian nope, why are we developed? Because we don't have him, yes?
Who does not know what is real emergency are talking about emergency. 😂😄
Desh mein dange ho rahe hai, emergency hi toh hai
@@endisnear306ganu 1984 89 numerous roits happened even before mudi
What about that chuttyia swere swere
@@NoSingh-rx3mv what will I do with past riots... If govt can't control the present riots means it's nalla
@@endisnear306 what roits you're talking about?? Bengal or Delhi?
@@NoSingh-rx3mv all over...bengal, delhi, nuh, manipur,
What is she trying to say? I think she is not trying to say anything 😂
Old age. Bear with her😂
Lal bahadur shastri ji is best PM of India till date.
I just noticed that the editor is really trying hard to get something or anything anti-modi out of the author but she is answering so truthfully that her questions are failing ...for ex. Comparing emergency to saying an undeclared emergency now ....anyways the author sold me on her answers...
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Now, this is PR for the gandhiji family by the newslaundry. 😅 Whos the godi media now 😅😂
Exactly
@@singing_psittaculagondhi media 😂
Fool people never understand
I am going to list independent and objective media. The Print,Mojo and newslaund* sorry bad cough.
Sponsored by Pappu 😂😂😂
If I ask the Maharashtra students to give just one reason for choosing Indira Gandhi as the best PM, I am not sure how many will be able to answer orally. Forget about writing grammatically in Marathi.
I don't have any reasons to choose Mr. Modi either
@@wewe-fx6unbut 45% other do it doesn't affect
Price of book is much high mam.
whenever any book first arrives, it is released as a hardcover. once some time passes, it'll be released as a paperback, and it will be cheaper
Congress blessed journalist she is
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Would love to see an graphic adaptation.
Wonderful video. Enjoyed it. But I believe you guys should give due credit to your sponsors in your videos. This is unfair to the Chinese Communist Party.
Kuch bhi bakwas karoge matlab
You mean the very party under which companies from China offered huge donations to PM Relief Care Fund!
Now we get it!
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This is the core problem that when she described Sonia's decision it felt like she was talking about a raj gharana or so....this defies the nature of Indian democracy...hame ese log nahin chahiye jo kabil nhi hain lekin sirf raj parivar mai paida hone ke karan pm banne ke davedar hai ...hame zameen se upar utha insaan chahiye ...like chandra gupta maurya and all....this raj gharana mentality is what the young generation of india dislikes leading to voting in favour of the available opposition that is bjp who will choose decide the next pm by ABILITY and not SURNAME
Your view on Jay shah becoming the BCCCI chairman?
@@MaheshSharma-ln7lg is bcci the nation.
Does bcci make important decision for india.
@@iravaanoppih7276 oh so why did dushyant raje get a ticket. Point to nepotism ka hai
@@MaheshSharma-ln7lg is he running the party or is he in line for pm or cm.
???
@@iravaanoppih7276 so you don’t have a problem with nepotism. Then why have such selective outrage. The point with your arguement is that you want to target one particular person only. Why dont you see the nepotism of BJP. Why only people who are running for PM and CM should not practice nepotism?
Freedom with discipline is exercised in Modi's regime that which irritates some.
Discipline??? What kind of discipline?
Please speak up against maliciousness
Who has atleast basic knowledge about Indias post independence episode's they know how Indiara Gandhi saved this country multiple times. My favorite pm is indira Gandhi so father tells me though how she was. Desh ki beti Indira Gandhi
Yeah that time the media was controlled by the government(actually) so people see what media feed them
Lmao
This needs to be in Hindi. Most of the Modi voters are Hindi knowing.
Who told you that? 😂
Undeclared emergency
Indra ji was realy agreat P M
Subramaniam swamy clarified in one his interview, that under the citizenship act of 1956. A foreigner who becomes the citizen of india shall carry the same rights as the indian , who becomes the citizen of the country of the foreigner regarding public office. According to dr.swamy in italy foreigners holding italian citizenship cannot become prime minister. Can any lawyer clarify these statements.
She is a shame. How can a foreigner wish to take an oath as PM of India ? She can go back to Italy and show her political acumen 🙌
Well a naturalised citizen can bro. Now its depends on citizens of a particular constituency or a legislative house to make her an MP.
She adopted Indian citizenship due to constitution obligations not by choice. If she feels proud being an Indian wife she took citizenship immediately after marriage. She can make fool few people with PR, not the rest. Hope she will fight Rai Bareli in 2024 election 😄 big surprise is waiting for her
@@sayakbhattacharya6530 Everybody has to go by rule of law, if there are such kind of provision then why can't she be part of it. And I guess a foreigner has to wait some time(somewhere around 5 years or so) to get their citizenship approved except on rare occasions.
@@shankarnayak3015 16 years is not the waiting period to become Indian citizen after marriage. Anyways She did not want to be a Indian citizen because she is not born and brought up, which is quite natural. But the uncanny part is why Congress projects her again and again "Tallest Congress leader" it shows their internal party leadership bankruptcy. She adopted Indian citizenship not to become Indian only to become PM due to constitution obligations. If you are not getting this simple assertion God helps you 🫡 Good luck for 2024 Rai Bareilly
@@sayakbhattacharya6530 look bro I am trying to be apolitical here, that's why I constraint myself to only shame remark. And in our constituency we used to vote for a bjp guy not just in the near 10 years center's terms but before that also, for some developmental reason( presently cabinet min), apart from that I don't know about Rai Bareli. Happy to exchange some msg with you.
Free is good enough thank you 😆
10:49 agenda exposed by their own People ? 😂😂😂😂 Bwahahahahha
Thank God atleast 1 good thing rahul did , stopped sonia to become pm😅
I am not sure she realises the progress India has made without Congress.
Manisha feeling sad y sonia not becoming PM 🤣🤣
It's Manisha who dares to say Undeclared Emergency but even after a senior journalist Nirja ji is afraid by current regime and hence escaped. She doesn't see what happens with brave journalist like Mo Zuber or others who wrote about Roti with salt or the journalist who covered Unnav episode or question asked to Smriti Irani in Amethi...!!
What happened to zuber??? Hes spreading hate openly
@@aniketsawant2240and isn't that what the current regime wants?!
Look who is complaining!
@@alexanderpinto9759lol chamcha
@@mahankalimohankrishnna1012 Mahankaliji, aapke is mahan comment ke liye dhanyavad!
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Mam ke hairs ko dekh kar or baate sunn kar ek cheez yaad aati hai jo mere sir ne boli "mere baal yu he pakk kar safeed nahi hue hai"
If Rahul blacmailed his mother regarding PM post with some drastic step ... the why he wishes to become PM ?
I trust thats the best thing ever rahul did by preventing her mother to become PM. Thanks rahul
Ranga siyar fir rang badal badal ke AA Gaye
Rahul Gandhi sounds like a real piece of work!
Yes he is and he is fighting vigorously against the fake piece of work.
At 10:40, undeclared emergency under modi, what are you smoking? Honestly
Still..i will pray for this channel to grow more and you people attract much viewers/subscribers to your paid contents
~ a right winger bjp fan (not modi's fan)
They will but china don't have TH-cam 😢😢sad
@@amitgomes5249 spot on bro 🤣
Undeclared emergency! hahaha
Plz explain about the bomb blasts that happened between 2004 and 2014
Are you saying the party did it?
Use the concept of firstpost
journalism
Oh I though the then president Abdul Kalam called Sonia Gandhi to the Rashtrapati Bhajan and told her that you cannot become the Prime Minister of India as she was born an Italian citizen and the Italian law does not allow a citizen who is born as a foreign citizen to become the Prime minister and the Indian law says that the law should be reciprocal to any country and thus in India she cannot become a PM. Now I get the bigger point of why it's called newslaundry.
I think you need subscription not because of honest journalism but because of congress is not in power. You will not need subscription once they come into power. But dont ask when. God also dont know that
It was Dr Subramaniam Swamy who wrote to the then President Abdul Kalam to tell him Sonia G was not qualified, according to the constitution of India, to be appointed Prime Minster as she was born an Italian.
Nothing to do with RG altogether, it’s a Congress sob story to cover up her enormous failure to be PM of Bharat!!
The book won't do justice to the title if you don't include Lal bahadur shastri and Morarji Desai