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Newsmaker : CPP Chairperson#SoniaGandhi Makes Instagram Debut ; Shares First Look Of Her Much Awaited Memoir – ‘Belonging: A Journey of Love’
The memoir chronicles Sonia Gandhi’s journey, from her childhood in post-war Italy and her romance that brought her to India to the personal losses that profoundly shaped her life and her relationship with her adopted country.
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Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has joined the social media platform Instagram and shared her first video, offering a first look of her upcoming memoir, ‘Belonging: A Journey of Love’.
In her first Instagram post, Sonia Gandhi expressed gratitude while sharing the first look of the book.
“It is a story of love, duty, loss and finding a place to belong. I look forward to sharing it with you,” the post read.
She immediately followed the Instagram accounts of her son Rahul and daughter Priyanka, along with that of the party. The number of followers of her account multiplied at a fast pace and within a few hours, her account has over 110K followers. All top Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, who are on Instagram started following the former Congress president’s account.
“It is a story of love, duty, loss and finding a place to belong. I look forward to sharing it with you,” she said. In the video, Gandhi is seen receiving the first copies of her book and sharing sweets with her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on the occasion. Gandhi points out that the book has a lot of photographs. The video garnered over 180K likes in a matter of hours.
In her second post, Gandhi shared a picture of her scanning through the book.
The memoir chronicles Sonia Gandhi’s journey, from her childhood in post-war Italy and her romance that brought her to India to the personal losses that profoundly shaped her life and her relationship with her adopted country.
In the memoir, the 79-year-old Congress veteran, who holds the distinction of being the party’s longest-serving president, revisits her childhood in Italy, her relationship with former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi during their time at Cambridge, and the assassinations of her mother-in-law, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and her husband, Rajiv Gandhi.
Sharing the video clip posted by her, Congress general secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh said, “The long-awaited memoir of Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party, will be out on November 10th.”
The long-awaited memoir of Smt. Sonia Gandhi Chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party will be out on Nov 10th. https://t.co/iS90Cezg6X
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) October 22, 2026