Former Minority Minister and former Deputy Chairperson of Rajya Sabha Najma Heptulla has made a big revelation about Congress leader Sonia Gandhi in her autobiography. In 1999, when she was appointed president of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU), she called UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to give her the good news, writes Nazma Heptulla.
He hoped that Sonia Gandhi would be happy to hear the news, but her employee said on the phone that madam is busy. After this he kept waiting on the phone for an hour but Sonia Gandhi did not talk to him. Let us tell you that due to differences with Sonia Gandhi, Heptulla left the Congress party and joined BJP in 2004. Recently his autobiography ‘In Pursuit of Democracy, Beyond Party Lines’ has been published. He said that this is a great opportunity to become the President of IPU. This opportunity to reach from the Parliament of the country to the Parliament of the world was very important for me. Describing this incident in his autobiography, Heptulla has written that he had first called the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee from Berlin. When Atal ji heard this news, he was very happy and said that this is an honor for India. It is a matter of great pride for a Muslim woman from India to hold this position.
