Veteran Congress leader Margaret Alva on Saturday said she was "pained" to see attempts to create "controversies" over her book Courage and Commitment, asserting she has not attacked party chief Sonia Gandhi in it.
"The book is simply the story of my life — from 1942 to 2014 detailing its trials and triumphs. It was meant to show how a woman, a minority, from a small town middle class family grew up and survived in the turbulent politics of her times, without the backing of money power or business lobbies," Alva said in a statement.
She further said, "I am pained to see the controversies sought to be created over excerpts from my book Courage and Commitment attributing motives to what I have said."
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Alva said she met Gandhi and presented her the first copy of the book, before it went public.
In the book, she threw light on a range of interesting issues, incidents and topics including Gandhi's uneasy relationship with P V Narasimha Rao.