“The Chinar leaves” – Indira Gandhi’s premonition

“The Chinar Leaves” by Veteran Congress leader ML Fotedar, to whom late Indian Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi during her visit to Srinagar in 0ctober 1984, had shared her premonition that “Priyanka her granddaughter will shine and the next century will be the new generation, as people will see me in her” and  as she may not live long and her preference to have Priyanka groomed to assume reins of the Congress party in India.

This book published by Harper Collins, comes at a time when the Congress Party is in shatters and there are calls to bring Priyanka into active politics.

Fotedar’s  latest book documents facts about  a will Indira Gandhi dictated to him two days before her murder.

“I may not live long. But you must watch over her –Priyanka- as she grows, and you will see her shine on the national horizon” Fotedar quotes Indira as telling her a few days before her death, where she shared with him how clearly she saw the glorious future of Priyanka.