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17: How Sonia Gandhi stopped Dr Singh from resigning

In the latest episode of On The Record, Hindustan Times’ Sunetra Choudhury speaks to ex-deputy chairman of the now-defunct Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia. In his new book “Backstage: The Story behind India’s High Growth Years”, Ahluwalia reveals that after the Rahul Gandhi ordinance-trashing episode of 2013, the then prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh asked him whether he should resign.
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