Michelle Bachelet, the former head of United Nations Human Rights received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2024 from Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi on 19th November. She also served as Chile’s only female president, from 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 2018.

“Bachelet has seen, first-hand, loss, oppression, torture and exile in her early years. It is a remarkable coincidence how both these women were born and raised in times of strife. Their country, their people, their family and they themselves were victims of subjugation,” Sonia claimed while trying to draw parallel between the awardee and India’s former prime minister.

The event transpired in the presence of 1984 anti-Sikh riots accused Jagdish Tytler. Meanwhile, Bharatiya Jana

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