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Until then, Indira's elder son had been a shy, soft-spoken Indian Airlines pilot with no political interests or ambitions...
Undeterred, 300 members of Parliament, all from Indira's party, sent a petition urging him to take Sanjay's place. The more Rajiv refused, the more he was accused of wielding power behind the scenes. Ultimately, he could no longer withstand the pressure and, in June 1981, stood for a by-election in Uttar Pradesh and won his brother's seat in Parliament as well as Sanjay's place on the executive committee of the party's youth wing...
...after Indira expelled her from the house they had long shared because of her political activities, the family firm began to dissolve into a family feud. Maneka set up her own party, known as the National Sanjay Platform, and her camp began talking of Maneka's son by Sanjay, Feroze Veruna, as a future candidate for Prime Minister. The boy is, to be sure, only five years old, but he enjoys what may be the most powerful political qualifications in India: the name of Gandhi and the ancestry of Nehru...
...Indira Gandhi...
...interviewer once asked Indira Gandhi if it was true, as he had heard from one of her aunts, that she had been the family pet. "Would you say," he pressed on, "you were a spoiled child...