Sonia Gandhi Memoir calls Godhra train fire ‘Disputed’ despite 31 convictions: What were Penguin fact checkers doing?

A controversial passage in Sonia Gandhi’s newly released memoir has triggered fresh questions over the accuracy of its account of the 2002 Godhra train burning. In Belonging: A Journey of Love, Sonia Gandhi describes the burning of four coaches of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra on February 27, 2002, in which 59 passengers, including Hindu pilgrims and kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya, were killed. However, one sentence in her account has drawn particular attention. She writes that “the case of

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