Of Indira, Rajiv and Sanjay: Decoding Pranab Mukherjee’s memoir

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Updated On Jan 28, 2016 12:05 pm IST

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Pranab Mukherjee, then a cabinet minister in the Indira Gandhi government, justifies Operation Bluestar, the 1984 military action to flush out terrorists from the Golden Temple in Amritsar. (HT File Photo)

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Pranab Mukherjee, then a cabinet minister in the Indira Gandhi government, justifies Operation Bluestar, the 1984 military action to flush out terrorists from the Golden Temple in Amritsar. (HT File Photo)

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“By May 1984, it became increasingly clear that there was no alternative but military action to flush out the terrorists within the Golden Temple-particularly as the negotiations and discussions had not yielded the desired results,” writes Pranab Mukherjee in his memoir. (HT File Photo)

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“By May 1984, it became increasingly clear that there was no alternative but military action to flush out the terrorists within the Golden Temple-particularly as the negotiations and discussions had not yielded the desired results,” writes Pranab Mukherjee in his memoir. (HT File Photo)

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File photo of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, President Pranab Mukherjee and Sardar Buta Singh.

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File photo of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, President Pranab Mukherjee and Sardar Buta Singh.

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File photo former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao being given a warm send off by Pranab Mukherjee and former UP governor Motilal Vora at the Delhi airport, in 1995. (HT File Photo)

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File photo former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao being given a warm send off by Pranab Mukherjee and former UP governor Motilal Vora at the Delhi airport, in 1995. (HT File Photo)

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The hours between Indira Gandhi’s assassination and the naming of Rajiv Gandhi as the next prime minister have often been the subject of intense political speculation, including suggestions that Pranab Mukherjee may have made a move for the coveted post. (Virendra Prabhakar/HT File Photo)

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The hours between Indira Gandhi’s assassination and the naming of Rajiv Gandhi as the next prime minister have often been the subject of intense political speculation, including suggestions that Pranab Mukherjee may have made a move for the coveted post. (Virendra Prabhakar/HT File Photo)

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Film actor Amitabh Bachchan and Rajiv Gandhi at his mother Indira Gandhi’s funeral. (HT File Photo)

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Film actor Amitabh Bachchan and Rajiv Gandhi at his mother Indira Gandhi’s funeral. (HT File Photo)

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President Pranab Mukherjee, in the second part of his memoir, heaps praise on late Congress leader Sanjay Gandhi and calls him the principal architect, along with his mother, of the party’ victory in 1980 general elections. (HT File Photo)

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President Pranab Mukherjee, in the second part of his memoir, heaps praise on late Congress leader Sanjay Gandhi and calls him the principal architect, along with his mother, of the party’ victory in 1980 general elections. (HT File Photo)

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PV Narasimha Rao releases the memoir of PC Alexander, a powerful bureaucrat during Indira Gandhi’s tenure as the prime minister, in New Delhi. (HT File Photo)

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PV Narasimha Rao releases the memoir of PC Alexander, a powerful bureaucrat during Indira Gandhi’s tenure as the prime minister, in New Delhi. (HT File Photo)

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