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'I Wish I Hadn't Opened My Mouth' Rajiv Gandhi Regretted Sacking Foreign Secretary In 1987, Reveals Sonia Gandhi

New Delhi, Nov 11: Then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had told his wife Sonia that he had committed a "blunder" by sacking then foreign secretary A P Venkateswaran at a press conference in 1987 and wished that he hadn't opened his mouth. Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has narrated the incident in her newly released memoir "Belonging: A Journey of Love" while talking about Rajiv's temper. "There were…

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