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“My mother refuses to take a holiday”

Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has not taken a break in the past five years and she will not listen even to her children when it comes to work, her son and MP Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday.

In an informal chat with journalists at a luncheon hosted by AICC Media Committee chairman M. Veerappa Moily here, Mr. Gandhi said: “My sister Priyanka and I have been telling her for the last five years to take a holiday. But she refuses to do so.”

When a journalist suggested that he be persistent, Mr. Gandhi said his persistence would not work with his mother when she made up her mind on something. “My sister and I have tried every trick in the book,” he said.

He jokingly asked journalists to put pressure on her to take a holiday. Mr. Gandhi was responding to a question on Ms. Gandhi’s recent ill health because of which she was hospitalised.

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