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Balloons, cake and empty chairs: Sonia recalls Rahul’s lonely 7th birthday

Sonia Gandhi recalls that only one friend attended Rahul Gandhi's seventh birthday celebration in 1977. The episode showed how Indira Gandhi's electoral defeat exposed the family's children to…

Balloons, cake and empty chairs: Sonia recalls Rahul's lonely 7th birthday
Balloons, cake and empty chairs: Sonia recalls Rahul's lonely 7th birthday — image via India Today India — Credit: Storywire

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Sonia Gandhi recalls that only one friend attended Rahul Gandhi's seventh birthday celebration in 1977. The episode showed how Indira Gandhi's electoral defeat exposed the family's children to political hostility.

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