Hyderabad, Nov. 12 -- For a group of Lambadi women in undivided Andhra Pradesh, Sonia Gandhi's identity was closely tied to that of her mother-in-law, former prime minister Indira Gandhi.

In her memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love, Sonia recalls how the women promised to vote for the Congress because she was 'Indira amma's daughter-in-law'. The Hindu highlighted this anecdote in its report on the memoir."

Recalling her Jan Sampark programme in the undivided Andhra Pradesh following the Karnataka campaign in 2004, Gandhi says her stop was at Hyderabad's Gandhi Bhawan, the party headquarters as she goes on to describe the building.

Moving onto Vijaywada from there, she says she was welcomed with slogans of "Indira Amma", in her mother-in...