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The book "V P Singh, Chandrashekhar, Sonia aur Main" is one the unsaid and untold authentic historical piece of document penned by Santosh Bhartiya who is famous for his dare and credibility in the world of political journalism.

The books is a must worth-read for every Indian who wants to measure the fathoms of Indian politics. This book gives a new perspective to the reader to understand the political environment of yester years. The content is written in a manner which can change the vision and stereotyped image what one generally have about V .P Singh, Chandrashekar, but about everyone who was the part of the political system of 80s. In fact, the reader will be astounded, amazed, surprised and taken aback by the unusual and unexpected revelations of political leaders, bureaucracy and business tycoons of that era.

He reveals that "Once got so angry that he punched hard on the table before him. V .P Singh felt it was useless to wait, he turned back after saying namaste. [page 81] Then further writes Santosh Bhartiya, “that evening of 22nd May 1987 had started writing the future of Rajiv Gandhi and the future of ”.

It is written that how and when Mulayam Singh played an important role in breaking the government. When and how ten thousand farmers along with VP Singh had given their arrest by doing Satyagraha. [ page 283] Raj Babbar was worried that from where people would come to welcome ‘him’ the next day? Then on what condition did he take help from Bala Sahib Thackeray? [ page 94 ]. While writing all these incidents, there is mention of an incident which reveals his bonding with actress Rekha, writes that "Next day I went to Taj then within five minutes Rekha Ji came down and sat in my Fiat car UHF-1 to hit the streets of Delhi" [ page 66)

The most shocking incident written in this book is where Santosh ji writes about an incidence when Rajiv Gandhi was a former Prime Minister and he came to live at 10 Janpath. One day Amitabh Bachchan came to meet Rajiv Gandhi. When he left after ten minutes, Rajiv Gandhi said, "He is a snake". When Rajiv Gandhi said this, there was a journalist present who was seen more around Rajiv Gandhi in those days. [ page 57]

In this book, the balanced personality of the politicians and the game of equations of their policies and diplomacy has been written very effectively. As it is written on one page that "Chandrashekhar never considered VP Singh as a leader but used him as a strategy to win elections". [ page 255 ] In one place it is written that "snakes were being released in ‘his’ meetings, an attempt was made to push ‘him’ at the railway station". [ page 135] A chapter titled "Bofors" mentions "actually Ottavio Kvatrocchi, an Italian frequent visitor to the Prime Minister's house, was the director of all this drama, Rajiv Gandhi never came to know that when and how his house and office were used in the Bofors deal." [ page 69]. In this book, for the first time that exact incident, the country will be able to know how became the Prime Minister after all. [ page 470 ]

Santosh Bhartiya reveals the sensational conversation between Chandrashakhar and , it is written that where Chandrashakhar said Atal ji that "You also leave the BJP, I also know you leave the party and ask as well to leave the Congress, and let all three of us travel around the country and prepare public for a new political change. On this Atal ji had said that "Chandrasekhar you are absolutely right but you do not know RSS, they won’t leave me alive, if I joined you by separating from RSS". [ page 435 ]

Another astonishing incident is written that why and how Sonia Gandhi had distanced herself from Amitabh Bachchan, it is written that after the death of Rajiv Gandhi, "One day Sonia Gandhi told Amitabh Bachchan that she was very worried about Rahul's fees as she doesn’t have any money left. And can he just arrange the fees? To this Amitabh Bachchan replied, "Lalit Suri and messed up the money, nothing is there, but I will do something." Two days later, he sent a cheque for one thousand dollars to Sonia Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi returned that cheque to Amitabh. Sonia Gandhi could never forget this incident and considering it as an insult, she trashed Amitabh Bachchan from her life forever. [ page 59]

Making some revelations about the business world, Santosh Bhartiya writes that “An incident made Dhirubhai the biggest enemy of VP Singh.” What was that incident is written in a very interesting style in the book. [ page 53 ]

Santosh Bhartiya writes that the memories associated with every character in this book are not mere memories, but they are documents of the political period of which has been the most stirring. He writes that VP Singh, Chandrashekhar and Sonia Gandhi, these three personalities were deprived of the respect which they should have received. Santosh Bhartiya writes that Sonia Gandhi should be praised that even the greed of becoming the Prime Minister could not tempt her. Her wisdom made the UPA run for ten years. If she wanted, instead of Narasimha Rao, she herself could have become the Prime Minister. [ page 471]

It is one the most beautifully, non-politically written political history. The books falls under Modern Political history or Contemporary Indian Political History. , Moraji Desai, Satyapal Malik, , Mahant Avaidyanath, Swami Chinmayanand, Kamal Morarka, Dr. Manzoor Alam, Sopal Shastri, Devi Lal, Advani, Shatrughan Sinha, , NT Rama Rao, , Sunil Shastri , , Kanshi Ram, Saratchandra Sinha, Ramkrishna Hegde, The political journey of leaders and actors with huge personalities like , , Sanjay Singh, , Narayan Dutt Tiwari, Ashok Singhal, , Nawaz Sharif, Dr. Manmohan Singh and Jayaprakash Narayan is recorded. The editor has written so well that after reading this book, it is as if you have come through a time.