“Why Rahul Gandhi needs to get out of Lutyens Delhi for a while”, First Post, April 25, 2023:
“If Rahul Gandhi really wants to make the most of ‘losing’ his Lutyens Delhi perch, he should desist from settling back into another Lutyens Delhi perch—his mother’s. Instead, he should consider living like an ordinary Indian for the first time in his life, in another part of Delhi.
After a similar loss his sister Priyanka Vadra had merely moved down the road to Sujan Singh Park; he should be braver. This could be his Siddhartha moment.
The attraction of living with mom is manifest, especially since Sonia Gandhi has been living all by herself in the 15,181 sqm 10 Janpath compound since 2004—after Rahul Gandhi was allotted a Lutyens bungalow of his own on Tughlaq Lane after becoming a member of Parliament. His sister Priyanka had already moved into yet another Lutyens bungalow in 1997 on getting married, a privilege not given to anyone else before—or since….”
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