“I asked Rajiv to be frank. I had no love for office or power. I could walk out any time. I was like a sojourner in an inn.”

—  Zail Singh

When there were rumours that there were proposals under consideration by Rajiv Gandhi and his cronies to either send him back to Punjab as Chief Minister or Impeach him as President, in: K.R. Sundar Rajan "Presidential Years:Zail Singh's posthumous defence of his controversial tenure."

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