1984 Intelligence Alert Pulled Rahul, Priyanka Out Of School: Sonia Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi were pulled out of their boarding schools in the middle of their academic term and brought back to Delhi after intelligence reports warned of a plot to kidnap them in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star, their mother and former Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi has written in her memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love.The warning came from RN Kao, a former intelligence chief and security adviser to then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who assessed that the children could no longer be protected at their residential schools, Sonia Gandhi wrote in the book.Walking into her mother-in-law's study after dinner one evening as usual, Sonia Gandhi and her husband, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, were asked by Indira Gandhi to sit down before she addressed them in a more sombre tone."I want to talk to you both about something that's been worrying me these past few days.

I've been told by Mr Kao that there are reports that the children (Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi) might be kidnapped.