New Delhi [India], October 22 (ANI): Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Thursday joined the social media platform Instagram and shared her first video, offering a first look of her upcoming memoir, 'Belonging: A Journey of Love'.

In her first Instagram post, Sonia Gandhi expressed gratitude while sharing the first look of the book.

"Hello everyone, I'm truly grateful to share this moment with you all; the first look of Belonging: A Journey of Love," she wrote in the caption.

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"It is a story of love, duty, loss and finding a place to belong. I look forward to sharing it with you," the post read.

The memoir chronicles Sonia Gandhi's journey, from her childhood in post-war Italy and her romance that brought her to India to the personal losses that profoundly shaped her life and her relationship with her adopted country.

In the memoir, the 79-year-old Congress veteran, who holds the distinction of being the party's longest-serving president, revisits her childhood in Italy, her relationship with former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi during their time at Cambridge, and the assassinations of her mother-in-law, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and her husband, Rajiv Gandhi.

Publisher Alfred A Knopf announced on August 18 that 'Belonging: A Journey of Love' would be published on November 10.

Alfred A Knopf is an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Its parent company is Bertelsmann AG, an international media company.

Born in Italy, Sonia Gandhi was a 19-year-old student in Cambridge, England, when she met Rajiv Gandhi in 1965. The couple exchanged vows on February 25, 1968.

Recently, on the 82nd birth anniversary of his father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Leader of Opposition (LoP) Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi expressed excitement about his mother's book.

'I am happy, and so proud, that your story--'Belonging: A Journey of Love'--will finally be read by the millions of people who love you. I know how hard it was for someone as private as you to tell the world your beautiful story. Today, on his birthday, I can see Papa smiling and looking down proudly at his beautiful Sonia,' the Congress leader added. (ANI)