Singh (83), who quit Congress in 2008 after he had to resign from the UPA-I Government in 2005 over his alleged involvement in Iraqi food-for-oil scam, also said Indian Peace-Keeping Force(IPKF) was sent to Sri Lanka in 1987 by the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi without "clear briefings and objectives" and that his Lankan policy ended in his assassination.
When asked in an interview to Karan Thapar on Headlines Today if he was fonder of Rajiv than Sonia, he snapped back saying it was so because "he did not behave like his wife did".
Asked if that was her Italian part, he shot back, asking what else can it be, adding, "some part of it is not Indian".
"Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi would not be like that," he added.
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He had claimed yesterday that Sonia declined to become Prime Minister in 2004 because of strong opposition from her son Rahul Gandhi who feared she would be killed like his father if she accepted the post. It was not due to her "inner voice", as she had then claimed, he had said.
Singh was speaking about his autobiography titled "One Life is Not Enough: An Autobiography", which is due to be released soon.
One claimed to be a socialist while one was an inept political "wheeler-dealer" and the third was a meddling nuisance, Singh said.
He identified two of them as Gopi Arora and Arun Nehru, both dead, but declined to name the third one as he was very old and the matter was not so important now.
Singh also claimed that 'Operation Brasstacks', which brought India and Pakistan close to war, was cooked up by then Minister of State for Defence Arun Singh and then Army Chief K Sundarji and that they kept Rajiv "in the dark".