Rahul Gandhi cites ex-Army chief’s 2023 ‘book available now’ post to question publisher’s statement

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday cited a December 2023 social media post by former Indian Army chief MM Naravane announcing that his memoir was “available now”, PTI reported.

This came after the publisher of the book, Penguin Random House India, said on Monday that the memoir had not yet been published.

On Tuesday, Gandhi told reporters outside Parliament that he believes the word of the former Army chief over the publisher.

Gandhi read a December 15, 2023, post by Naravane on social media platform X, which said: “Hello friends. My book is available now. Just follow the link. Happy reading. Jai Hind.”

A screenshot shared by Naravane in the tweet showed a post by Penguin India, which had announced that readers could “pre-order” the book.

“Penguin is saying the book is not published,” PTI quoted Gandhi as saying. “The book is available on Amazon. General Naravane has tweeted, as I just read to you, that please buy my book. He tweeted this in 2023. Do you believe Penguin over Mr Naravane? I believe Mr Naravane.”

The Opposition leader said that some statements made by Naravane in the book were inconvenient to the Union government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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