Sonia Gandhi Recalls Begging Rajiv Not to Become PM

In her upcoming memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love, Sonia Gandhi recounts begging Rajiv Gandhi not to accept the prime ministership after Indira Gandhi's assassination on October 31, 1984. She warned, "They will kill you, too," but Rajiv said he had a duty to fulfil and was sworn in that evening at 40. He was assassinated in 1991.