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All India Congress Committee
Author_Rasheed Kidwai
Author_Sushilkumar Shinde
candid memoir
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chief minister
child labourer
controversial trials
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Indian politics
Maharashtra
political journey
Product details
- ISBN 9789369890804
- Weight: 202g
- Dimensions: 140 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jul 2025
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Paperback
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Veteran politician Sushilkumar Shinde's career trajectory is unrivalled in Indian politics. Beginning life working as a child labourer and as a ward boy to make ends meet, he went on to hold some of the highest offices in the land: the chief minister of Maharashtra, the Union home minister, All India Congress Committee general secretary and the UPA's vice-presidential candidate. In this candid memoir written with Rasheed Kidwai, he takes us though the highs and lows of his fifty-year-long political journey: from being 'discovered' by Sharad Pawar and fighting his first few elections to his subsequent rise to the pinnacles of power.
Rasheed Kidwai is a journalist, author and political analyst. He is a visiting fellow at the Observer Research Foundation [ORF]. A former associate editor of The Telegraph, Kidwai tracks government, politics, community affairs and Hindi cinema, and has written several books on these topics. Sushilkumar Shinde is a veteran politician who served as the Minister of Home Affairs (2012-14) and Minister of Power (2006-12) and the Leader of the House in Lok Sabha. He served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2003 to 2004.
