Congress memoirs: Sonia Gandhi reveals family split over Emergency, crying over Babri Masjid demolition, and Modi's authoritarian rule in New Delhi. New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi believes the Congress has been “too complacent” and there was a “laissez-faire kind of attitude” in tackling BJP and that keeping Sanjay Gandhi “in check” during the Emergency could have prevented “much of the damage" that followed.