Blackmailing his mother Indira Gandhi, Sanjay was running the Government!
Sanjay Gandhi or Sanjeev Gandhi? It is a fact that Sanjay Gandhi constantly blackmailed his mother and was indirectly controlling the Government. He behaved as if the ‘country was his personal property’. Indira Gandhi chose to ignore his misdeeds. The reason why Indira tolerated Sanjay’s behaviour was because he knew who his father was and he used that to blackmail her. When Indira learnt of Sanjay’s death her first question was, ‘Where are his keys and his wrist watch?’ Were some deep secrets about the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty hidden in those objects? (An unbiased pamphlet published in the interest of Indian society, Author: R. V. Bhasin, Advocate, Supreme Court)
It has been controversially suggested that Sanjay exercised a deep emotional control over his mother, which was often misused. Some, including Khushwant Singh, have claimed that he tapped his widowed mother’s apparent loneliness to build his influence and control over political affairs and national policy.
