Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], October 12 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Manishankar Aiyar on Sunday heaped praise on former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi leadership.

Addressing the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival 2025, Aiyar drew sharp contrasts between Rajiv Gandhi 's political choices and the policies of the current administration, which he accused of neglecting India's geographic and social peripheries.

"Unfortunately, almost all his senior colleagues were more interested in party interest than in national interest. And that is why several of them, beginning with Mr VP Singh and continuing with Arif Mohammad Khan who is now a BJP governor and Arun Nehru, above all betrayed him because they would not understand that the party interest can never stand in the way of the national

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