Political Firestorm Erupts: Rahul Gandhi and the 'Mystery' Memoir
Political Firestorm Erupts: Rahul Gandhi and the 'Mystery' Memoir NEW DELHI, Feb 11, 2026 — The ongoing Budget Session of Parliament has transformed into a high-stakes legal and political battleground. Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi finds himself at the center of a fresh controversy involving an unpublished memoir by former Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane (Retd.). The situation escalated significantly this week after the Delhi Police Special Cell registered an FIR regarding the "leak and illegal circulation" of the manuscript, titled Four Stars of Destiny. The Core of the Conflict The dispute began when Rahul Gandhi attempted to quote from the memoir in the Lok Sabha to criticize the government’s handling of the 2020 India-China standoff. While the government, led by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, maintains that the book has not been published and lacks mandatory Ministry of Defence (MoD) clearance, Gandhi has publicly brandished a physical copy of t...