Diwali 1984: Grenade Plot to Wipe Out The Entire Gandhi Parivar, Revealed In Sonia Gandhi's Memoir

One night. One house. The entire Gandhi parivar under one roof: Indira, Rajiv, Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka.It was Diwali, 24 October 1984. As Indira Gandhi lit the first lamp, grenades lay hidden in a room next to the kitchen. According to Sonia Gandhi’s new memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, they were meant to wipe out the whole family that very night.But the attack never came. Sonia writes that the plot was called off at the last minute, for reasons no one knows. 7 days later, Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her own guards.Meghna Deka decodes the night India’s most powerful political family could have been wiped out: what Sonia reveals, the countdown to 31 October, and the questions her memoir leaves unanswered.