Sonia Gandhi: Three Lies

Ms. Sonia Gandhi’s background as publicized by her and her Congress Party is based on three lies in order to hide the ugly reality of her life.

First, her real name is Antonia not Sonia. This was revealed by the Italian Ambassador in New Delhi in a letter dated April 27, 1983 to the Union Home Ministry which letter has not been made public. Antonia is Sonia’s real name as stated in her birth certificate.

Sonia is the name given to her subsequently by her father, Stefano Maino [now deceased]. He had been a prisoner of war in Russia during World War II. Stefano had joined the Nazi army as a volunteer, as many Italian fascists had done. Sonia is a Russian not Italian name. While spending two years in a Russian jail, Sonia’s father had become quite pro-Soviet, especially after the liberating US army in Italy had confiscated all fascists’ properties including his.

Second, Sonia was not born in Orbassano as she claims in her bio data submitted to Parliament on becoming MP, but in Luciana as stated in her birth certificate. She perhaps would like to hide the place of her birth because of her father’s connection with the Nazis and Mussolini’s Fascists, and her family’s continuing connections with the Nazi-Fascists underground that is still surviving in Italy since the end of the War. Luciana is where Nazi-Fascist network is headquartered, and is on the Italian-Swiss border. There can be no other explanation for this otherwise meaningless lie.

Third, Sonia Gandhi has not studied beyond High School. But she has falsely claimed in her sworn affidavit filed as a contesting candidate before the Rae Bareli Returning Officer in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, that she qualified and got a diploma in English from the prestigious University of Cambridge, UK.

SONIA'S INTRODUCTION INTO INDIA

Ms. Sonia Gandhi upon learning enough English, became a waitress in Varsity Restaurant in Cambridge town. She first met Rajiv when he came to the restaurant in 1965. Rajiv was a student in the University, but could not cope with the academic rigour for long. So he had to depart in 1966 for London where he was briefly in Imperial College of Engineering as a student. Sonia too moved to London, and according my information, got a job with an outfit run by Salman Thassir, a debonair Pakistani based in Lahore, and who has a export-import company headquartered in Dubai but who spends most of his time in London. This fits the profile of a ISI functionary.

Obviously, Sonia made enough money in this job to loan Rajiv funds in London, who was living beyond his allowances [Indira herself had expressed anguish to me on this score in late 1965 when I was a young Harvard professor of economics. She had invited me to a private tea at the Guest House in Brandeis University where she was staying].

Rajiv’s letters to Sanjay filed in Delhi High Court by P.N. Lekhi clearly indicate that he was in financial debt to Sonia because he requested Sanjay also in UK then, and who obviously had more access to money, to pay off the debt.

However, Rajiv was not the only friend Sonia was seeing those days. Madhavrao Scindia and a German by name Stiegler are worth mentioning as other good friends of Sonia. Madhavrao’s friendship continued even after Sonia’s marriage to Rajiv. Scindia in 1982 was involved in a traffic accident near IIT, Delhi main gate while driving a car at 2 AM. Sonia was the only other passenger. Both were badly injured. A student of IIT who was burning midnight oil was out for a cup of coffee. He picked them up from the car, hailed an auto rickshaw and sent an injured Sonia to Mrs Indira Gandhi’s house since she insisted in not going to a hospital. Madhavrao had broken a leg and in too much pain to make any demand. He was taken to hospital by the Delhi Police who had arrived a little after Sonia had left the scene.

In later years, Madhavrao had become privately critical of Sonia, and told some close friends about his apprehensions about her. It is a pity that he died in mysterious circumstances in an as yet uninvestigated aircrash of his private plane in the year 2001. Mani Shankar Aiyar and Shiela Dikshit were to be on that flight too, but were asked to stay behind at the last moment.

The circumstance under which Rajiv hastily married Sonia in a Church in Orbassano is controversial, but that was his personal matter which has no public significance. What however is of public significance is that Indira Gandhi who was initially dead set against the marriage for reasons known to her, relented to hold a registry marriage with Hindu ceremonial trappings in New Delhi only after the pro-Soviet T.N. Kaul prevailed upon her to accept the marriage in “the larger interest of cementing Indo-Soviet Friendship”. Kaul would not have intervened unless the Soviet Union had not asked him to.

SONIA'S KGB CONNECTIONS

Such has been the patronage from the beginning extended to Sonia Gandhi and her Italian family from the Soviets. When a Prime Minister of India’s son dates a girl in London, the KGB which valued Indo-Soviet relations, would naturally investigate her. They had, and found out that she was the daughter of Stefano, their old reliable Italian contact. Thus, Sonia married to Rajiv, meant deep access for the Soviets, into the household of the Indian Prime Minister. Hence cementing the Rajiv-Sonia relations was in the Soviet national interest and they went to work on it. And they did, through their moles in the Indira Gandhi camp.

After her marriage to Rajiv, the Soviet connection with the Mainos was fortified and nurtured by generous financial help through commissions and kick-backs on every Indo—Soviet trade deal and defence purchases. According to the respected Swiss magazine, Schweitzer Illustrate [November 1991 issue] Rajiv Gandhi had about $2 billion in numbered Swiss bank accounts—which Sonia inherited upon his assassination.

SONIA'S CONTEMPT FOR LAWS OF INDIA

After Sonia married Rajiv, she and her Italian family aided by friend and Snam Progetti’s New Delhi resident Ottavio Quattrocchi, went about minting money with scant regard for Indian laws and treasures. Within a few years the Mainos rose from utter poverty to become billionaires.

There was no area that was left out for the rip-off. On November 19, 1974, as fresh entrant to Parliament, I had asked the then Prime Minister Ms. Indira Gandhi on the floor of the House if her daughter-in-law, Sonia Gandhi, was acting as an insurance agent of a public sector insurance company [Oriental Fire&Insurance], giving the Prime Minister’s official residence as her business address, and using undue influence to get insured the officers of the PMO, while remaining as an Italian citizen[thus violating FERA]. There was an uproar in Parliament, but Mrs. Indira Gandhi had no alternative but to cut her losses. She made a rare admission in a written reply a few days later that it indeed was so, and that it was by mistake, but that Sonia had resigned from her insurance agency[after my question]. But Sonia was incorrigible. Her contempt for Indian law continued to manifest.

The Supreme Court Justice A.C. Gupta Commission set up by the Janata Party government in 1977 came out with a voluminous report on the Maruti Company then owned by the Gandhi family, and has listed eight violations of FERA, Companies Act, and Foreigners Registration Act by Sonia Gandhi. She was never prosecuted, but can still be prosecuted because under Indian law, economic crimes are not subject to the statute of limitation.

In January 1980, Indira Gandhi returned as Prime Minister. The first thing Sonia did was to enroll herself as a voter. This was a gross violation of the law, enough to cause cancellation of her visa [since she was admittedly an Italian citizen then]. There was some hullabaloo in the press about it, so the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer got her name deleted in 1982. But in January 1983, she again enrolled herself as a voter even while as a foreigner [she first applied for citizenship in April 1983].

More recently, A.G. Noorani is his book: Citizen’s Rights, Judges, and State Accountability records [page 318] that Ms. Sonia Gandhi had made available to a foreign national the secret papers of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru obviously illegally in her possession, and comments as follows:
“Sonia Gandhi has no right to hold them in her possession at all, let alone decide whom to accord permission for access to them”

Such is her revealed disdain for Indian laws and that is her mindset even today. She suffers from a neo-imperialist mentality.

SONIA GANDHI IS THE MODERN ROBERT CLIVE

The bottom line observed in Sonia’s mindset is that she can disregard Indian laws with impunity. If cornered or if she becomes vulnerable to prosecution, she can always run back to Italy. In Peru, President Fujimori who all along claimed to be “born Peruvian”, when faced with a corruption charge fled to Japan with his loot and reclaimed his Japanese citizenship. That is Sonia’s bottom line fall-back option too.

In 1977, when the Janata Party defeated the Congress at the polls, and formed the government, it widely known and published that Sonia with her two children abandoned Indira Gandhi, and ran to the Italian Embassy in New Delhi and hid there. Rajiv Gandhi was a government servant then[as an Indian Airlines pilot], but he too tagged along and hid in that foreign embassy ! Such was her baneful influence on him. Rajiv did snap out Sonia’s influence after 1989, but alas he was assassinated before he could rectify the situation.

Those close to Rajiv knew that he was planning set things right about Sonia after the 1991 elections. He held her to blame for all the financial scandals that led to his defeat at the 1989 polls. She knew of it too because he had told her on his trip to Soviet Union in February 1991. Ever wonder why Sonia’s closest advisers are those whom Rajiv literally hated? Ambika Soni is one such name. Ever wonder why she has asked the President of India to set aside on a mercy petition the Supreme Court judgment directing that Rajiv Gandhi’s LTTE killers be hanged, when she was not similiarly moved for Satwant Singh who killed Indira Gandhi or even recently for Dhanajoy Chattopadhyaya ? The explanation for this special consideration for the LTTE perhaps lies in what Rajiv had told her about their future. May be therefore Sonia feels obliged to the LTTE for the assassination. More on this later.

Those who have no love for India will not hesitate to plunder her treasures. Mohammed Ghori, Nadir Shah, and the British scum in the East India Company such as Robert Clive, made no secret of it. But Sonia Gandhi has been more discreet, but as greedy, in her looting of Indian treasures. When Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were Prime Ministers, not a day passed when the PM’s security did not go to the New Delhi, or Chennai international airport to send crates and crates of Indian antiques and other treasures, unchecked by customs, to Rome. Air India and Alitalia were the chosen carriers. For organizing all this, Mr. Arjun Singh first as CM, later as Union Minister in charge of Culture, was her hatchet man.

Indian temple sculpture of gods and goddesses, antiques, pichwai paintings, shatoosh shawls, coins, and you name it, were transported to Italy to be first displayed in two shops owned by her sister, Anuskha alias Alessandra Maino Vinci. These shops located in blue-collar areas of Rivolta[shop name: Etnica] and Orbassano [shop name: Ganpati] did little business because which blue collar Italian wants to buy Indian antiques ? The shops were there to make false bills, and thereafter these treasures were taken to London for auction by Sotheby’s and Christies.

Some of this ill-gotten money from auction went into the bank accounts of Rahul Gandhi in the National Westminister Bank and Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, London branches, but most of it found it’s way into the Gandhi family account in the Bank of America in Cayman Islands. Rahul’s expenses and tuition fees for the one year he was at Harvard, was paid from that Cayman Island account.

What kind of people are these Gandhi-Mainos that bite the very hand of Bharat Mata that fed them and gave them a good life? How can the nation trust or tolerate such greedy thieves of national treasures?

Since I failed to persuade the Vajpayee government to defend India’s treasures from plunder by the Mainos, I approached the Delhi High Court in a PIL. The first Bench of the court issued notice to the Government, but since the Indian government dragged it’s feet, the Court directed the CBI to seek Interpol’s and Italian government’s help. The Italian government justifiably asked for a Letter Rogatory for which a FIR is a pre-requisite. But the Interpol did oblige and submitted two voluminous reports on the shops which the Court directed the CBI to hand over to me. But CBI has so far refused, and has claimed privilege!

This question will be argued out at the next hearing of my PIL.

The CBI has also been caught lying in court by telling the judges that Alessandra Maino is a name of a man, and Via Bellini 14, Orbassano is a name of a village[not the street address of the Maino’s residence]. Although the CBI counsel had to apologise later to the court stating he had made a mistake, he has been promoted to Additional Solicitor General by the new government! Why was he appointed as the CBI’s counsel by the Vajpayee government in the first place? The Vajpayee-Sonia mutual assistance pact is thus in full view in this episode.

But the most sinister aspect of Sonia Gandhi’s links is her connection with terrorists. I am still working on it, but she has had long connection with the Habash group of Palestinians [PFLP], and has funded Palestinian families that lost their kith and kin in a suicide bombing or hijacking episode. This fact, Rajiv Gandhi himself told me and was confirmed to me [the funding aspect] by Yassir Arafat when I met him in Tunis on October 17, 1990 at the request of Rajiv Gandhi. Rajiv and I were good friends from 1978, but became very close friends after V.P. Singh had betrayed him in 1987. We met practically every day, mostly in the early hours from 1AM to 4AM, discussed, chatted and gossiped on every topic. It was at my suggestion that Rajiv made Chandrashekhar the PM. And contrary to public impression, he was not mainly responsible for fall of Chandrashekar government[of which I was a Minister].

Besides the Palestinian extremists, the Maino family have had extensive business dealings with Saddam Hussein, and surprisingly since 1984 with the LTTE [“the Tamil Tigers”]. Sonia’s mother Paola Predebon Maino, and businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi are the main contacts with the Tigers. The mother used the LTTE for money laundering and Quattrocchi for selling weapons to earn commissions. Sonia’s conduit to the LTTE has been and is through Arjun Singh who uses Bangalore as the nodal point for contact.

There is a string of circumstantial evidence pointing to the prima facie possibility that the Maino family may have contracted with the LTTE to kill Rajiv Gandhi. The family may have assured the LTTE that nothing would happen to them because they would ensure it is blamed on the Sikhs or the evidence so much fudged that no court would convict them[ the LTTE intercepted transcripts show this expectation of the LTTE]. But D.R. Karthikeyan of the CBI who led the SIT investigation got the support of Narasimha Rao, cracked the case, and succeeded in getting the LTTE convicted in the trial court, which conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1999.

Although on the involvement of some members of the Congress Party in the assassination, DRK soft peddled it ignoring a number of leads perhaps because he did not want political controversy to put road blocks on his investigation as a whole.

The Justice J. S. Verma Commission, which was set up as the last official act of the Chandrashekhar government before demitting office on June 21, 1991, did find that the Congress leaders had disrupted the security arrangements for the Sriperumbudur meeting. The Commission wanted further probe into it but the Rao government rejected that demand. In the meantime under Sonia’s pressure, the Jain Commission was set up by the Rao government, which tried to muddy the waters and thus exonerate the LTTE. But the trial court judgment convicting the LTTE came earlier than the Commission could conclude, and that sinister effort therefore too failed.

Nowadays, Sonia is quite unabashed in having political alliance with those who like MDMK, PMK, and DMK praise Rajiv Gandhi’s killers. No Indian widow would ever do that. Such circumstances are many, and raise a doubt. My investigations into Sonia’s involvement in Rajiv’s assassination is therefore necessary. I am also author of a best seller titled Assassination Of Rajiv Gandhi—Unasked Questions and Unanswered Queries[published by Konark in 2000] in which I have given some indications of this possible conspiracy.

Is it not significant that the political career graph of Sonia Gandhi advances concomitantly with a series of assassinations and apparently accidental deaths?

How did Sanjay’s plane on June 23, 1980 nosedive to a crash and yet the plane fuselage failed to explode upon impact? There was no fuel ! How was that possible since flight register shows full tank before take-off ? Why was there no inquiry conducted ?

Is it not a fact that Indira Gandhi died because of loss of blood from the wounds and not directly due to a bullet impacting her head or heart ? Then is it not strange that Sonia had insisted that the bleeding Indira be driven to Lohia Hospital-- in the opposite direction to AIIMS which had a contingency protocol set up for precisely such an event ? And after reaching Lohia Hospital, did not Sonia change her mind and demand that they all drive to AIIMS thus losing 24 valuable minutes ?

The same kind of mystery surrounds the sudden deaths of Sonia’s other political roadblocks such as Rajesh Pilot, Jitendra Prasad, and Madhavrao Scindia. Such untimely deaths happened in the dark ages in Italy. Should we allow it to happen in India like dumb cattle going to slaughter?

WHAT PATRIOTIC INDIANS CAN DO

We have to ensure that the Maino clan does not stay in power. Dr. Manmohan Singh may be PM, which is a small relief, but he is not a fighter. The real power in government today is wielded by the Maino mafia gang. Can they be dethroned? I argue that they must be, for India’s integrity and democracy.

In Indian democracy, other than by losing majority, only a shocking scandal can unseat a government. Today’s priority is however not for toppling the Congress government as such, since Manmohan Singh is a decent and scholarly person, but in driving the Maino clan out of India. If the only way that can be done is by toppling the Singh government, then so be it. But the successor government should be such that it will not protect Sonia and her clan as Vajpayee’s did.

It will although not be long before Sonia will give Manmohan Singh marching orders, and he will march out meekly. We should not expect him to resist. Thus time with patriotic Indians is limited.

With Sonia’s defacto government in place, it is also unrealistic to expect that I can get an early victory in the courts on the KGB and antique smuggling cases. The most potent scandal at hand, therefore, that can dislodge the Maino clan[including Rahul and Priyanka] lies in exposing their existing Italian citizenship. That will galvanise the people.

In 1992, Sonia had revived her citizenship of Italy under Article 17 of the Italian Citizenship Law [Act 91 of 1992]. Rahul and Priyanka were born Italian citizens because Sonia was Italian when she gave birth to them[Italian law based on jure sanguinis]. Hence, they continue be Italians since they have never renounced their citizenship upon becoming 21 years old. Both, Rahul and Priyanaka have been traveling abroad on Italian passports. They may now acquire Venezuela passports too, since Rahul Gandhi’s wife, Veronica, is a Venezuelan. That means one more foreign bahu for us tolerant Indians. The Maino-Gandhis are certainly getting Indian society globalised in their own selfish way.

To end Bharat Mata’s shame and pain, what can patriotic Indians do in a democracy?

As a first step there is an urgent need to document the facts about their citizenship on notarized paper, for which we need to set up a network in London, Milan, Hongkong, and in Venezuela. Those persuaded by my above stated facts and arguments may join in and help set up this network. Other steps can come later once this is accomplished.

Excerpts from http://janataparty.org/sonia.html

Source: http://scripadvice.blogspot.com/2011/08/excerpts-from-httpjanatapartyorgsoniaht.html

15 August: Worst Day in Indian History

I think the truth of partition on 14.8.1947 and what followed is not very well known to people of India and it is a huge task but the loot, plunder, rape, gang rapes of women and girls of minority communities must be told and retold in all the languages of India so that it reaches the common man.

According to a B.B.C. documentary shown in 1984 over two million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims were killed during partition of India and many millions were made homeless refugees and lost their belongings but “bastard” Nehru, the “Mahatma”, their All-India Congress Party and the All-India Muslim League with their Maulana Abul Kalam AZAD, Hassain Shahid Suhrawardi and Liaqat Ali Khan, etc., were all engaged in scheming to destroy the Unity of Nation.

Hussain Shahid Suhrawardi, then C.M. of West Bengal, incited bloody riots in NOAKHALI District of Bengal in August 1946.

Hindu and Sikh girls and women were paraded naked in several towns and cities of Pakistan and many were molested and raped in the open while Gandhi and Nehru were chanting the slogan of “Hindu-Muslim Bhai Bhai!” They had no shame.

On independence day when refugees were streaming into Delhi, Nehru was kissing the foot of Lady Edwina Mountbatten and her daughter at Red Fort, Delhi, at midnight on August 14/15,1947.

India was independent on 15.8.1947 but he made Lord Mountbatten the first Governor General of free India so that he could continue his romance with Lady Mountbatten, a disgrace to his Congress Party and the nation. The time is fast approaching when Nehru’s oil painting in India’s Parliament in New Delhi will be destroyed and the event celebrated across the nation.

On the first day of independence India's Head was Lord Mountbatten that was a bad start for India. The nation will one day uproot the “Samadhi” of Gandhi at Raj Ghat and throw the contents of Nehru’s residence at Trimurti Bhawan, New Delhi, in the gutter of history.

Jawahar Lal Nehru: A Real Story

At the very beginning of his book,'The Nehru Dynasty',Astrologer K.N. Rao mentions the names of Jawaharlal's father and grandfather. Jawaharlal's father was believed to be Motilal and Motilal's father was one Gangadhar Nehru.
We all know that Jawaharlal's only daughter was Indira Priyadarshini Nehru; Kamala Nehru was her mother, who died in Switzerland of tuberculosis. She was totally against Indira's proposed marriage with Feroze.

Why? No one tells us that!

Now, who is this Feroze? We are told by many that he was the son of the family grocer. The grocer supplied wines, etc.. to Anand Bhavan (previously known as Ishrat Manzil)

What was the family grocer's name?

One frequently hears that Rajiv Gandhi's grandfather was Pandit Nehru. But then we all know that everyone has two grandfathers, the paternal and the maternal grandfathers.
In fact, the paternal grandfather is deemed to be the more important grandfather in most societies.

Why is it then, nowhere, we find Rajiv Gandhi's paternal grandfather' s name? It appears that the reason is simply. Rajiv Gandhi's paternal grandfather was a Muslim gentleman from the Junagadh area of Gujarat .

This Muslim grocer by the name of Nawab Khan, had married a Parsi woman after converting her to Islam.
This is the source where from the myth of Rajiv being a Parsi was derived. Rajiv's father Feroze, was Feroze Khan before he married Indira, against Kamala Nehru's wishes.
Feroze's mother's family name was Ghandy, often associated with Parsis and this was changed to Gandhi, sometime before his wedding with Indira, by an affidavit.
The fact of the matter is that (and this fact can be found in many writings) Indira was very lonely. Chased out of the Shantiniketan University by Guru Dev Rabindranath himself for misdemeanour, the lonely girl was all by herself, while father Jawaharlal was busy with politics, pretty women and illicit sex, the mother was in hospital.
Feroze Khan, the grocer's son was then in England and he was quite sympathetic to Indira and soon enough she changed her religion, became a Muslim woman and married Feroze Khan in a London mosque.

Nehru was not happy, Kamala was dead already or dying. The news of this marriage eventually reached Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (better known as Mahatma Gandhi) .
andhi urgently called Nehru and practically ordered him to ask the young man to change his name from Khan to Gandhi. It had nothing to do with change of religion, from Islam to Hinduism for instance. It was just a case of a change of name by an affidavit. And so Feroze Khan became Feroze Gandhi.

The surprising thing is that the apostle of truth, the old man soon to be declared India 's Mahatma and the 'Father of the Nation' didn't mention this game of his in the famous book, 'My Experiments with Truth'. Why?

When they returned to India , a mock 'Vedic marriage' was instituted for public consumption.
On this subject, writes M.O. Mathai (a long-time Private Secretary of Nehru) in his renowned (but now suppressed by the GOI! ) 'Reminiscences of the Nehru Age' on page 94, second paragraph: ' For some inexplicable reason, Nehru allowed the marriage to be performed according to Vedic rites in 1942. An inter-religious and inter-caste marriage under Vedic rites at that time was not valid in law. To be legal, it had to be a civil marriage .'

It's a known fact that after Rajiv's birth Indira and Feroze lived separately, but they were not divorced. Feroze used to harass Nehru frequently for money and also interfere in Nehru's political activities. Nehru got fed up and left instructions not to allow him into the Prime Minister's residence Trimurthi Bhavan.

Mathai writes that the death of Feroze came as a relief to Nehru and Indira. The death of Feroze in 1960 before he could consolidate his own political forces, is itself a mystery. Feroze had even planned to remarry.

Those who try to keep tabs on our leaders in spite of all the suppressions and deliberate misinformation, are aware of the fact that the second son of Indira (or Mrs .Feroze Khan) known as Sanjay Gandhi was not the son of Feroze. He was the son of another Muslim gentleman, Mohammad Yunus.

Here in passing, we might mention that the second son was originally named Sanjiv. It rhymed with Rajiv, the elder brother's name. It was changed to Sanjay when he was arrested by the British police in England and his passport impounded, for having stolen a car.
Krishna Menon was then India 's High Commissioner in London . He offered to issue another passport to the felon who changed his name to Sanjay. Incidentally, Sanjay's marriage with the Sikh girl Menaka (now they call her Maneka for Indira Gandhi found the name of mythological Lord Indra's Court dancer rather offensive !!) took place quite surprisingly in Mohammad Yunus's house in New Delhi
The marriage with Menaka who was a model (She had model for Bombay Dyeing wearing just a towel) was not so ordinary either. Sanjay was notorious in getting unwed young women pregnant. Menaka too was rendered pregnant by Sanjay.

It was then that her father, Colonel Anand, threatened Sanjay with dire consequences if he did not marry her daughter and that did the trick.

Sanjay married Menaka. It was widely reported in Delhi at the time that Mohammad Yunus was unhappy at the marriage of Sanjay with Menaka. Apparently he had wanted to get him married with a Muslim girl of his choice. It was Mohammad Yunus who cried the most when Sanjay died in the plane accident.

In Yunus's book, 'Persons, Passions & Politics' one discovers that baby Sanjay had been circumcised following Islamic custom, although the reason stated was phimosis. It was always believed that Sanjay used to blackmail Indira Gandhi and due to this she used to turn a blind eye when Sanjay Gandhi started to run the country as though it were his personal freedom.. Was he black mailing her with the secret of who his real father was? When the news of Sanjay's death reached Indira Gandhi, the first thing she wanted to know was about the bunch of keys which Sanjay had with him.

Nehru was no less a player in producing bastards. At least one case is very graphically described by M.O. Mathai in his 'Reminiscences of the Nehru Age', page 206.

Mathai writes:
'In the autumn of 1948 a young woman from Benares arrived in New Delhi as a sanyasini named Shraddha Mata (an assumed and not a real name). She was a Sanskrit scholar well versed in the ancient Indian scriptures and mythology. People, including MPs, thronged to her to hear her discourses. One day S.D. Upadhyaya, Nehru's old employee, brought a letter in Hindi from Shraddha Mata. Nehru gave her an interview in the PM's house. As she departed, I noticed (Mathai is speaking here) that she was young, shapely and beautiful. Meetings of Nehru with her became rather frequent, mostly after he finished his work at night. During one of Nehru's visits to Lucknow , Shraddha Mata turned up there and Upadhyaya brought a letter from her as usual. Nehru sent her the reply and she visited Nehru at midnight...' Suddenly Shraddha Mata disappeared.

In November 1949 a convent in Bangalore sent a decent looking person to Delhi with a bundle of letters. He said that a young woman from northern India arrived at the convent a few months ago and gave birth to a baby boy. She refused to divulge her name or give any particulars about herself. She left the convent as soon as she was well enough to move out but left the child behind.

She however forgot to take with her a small cloth bundle in which, among other things, several letters in Hindi were found. The Mother Superior, who was a foreigner, had the letters examined and was told they were from the Prime Minister.

The person who brought the letters surrendered them...'I (Mathai) made discreet inquiries repeatedly about the boy but failed to get a clue about his whereabouts. Convents in such matters are extremely tight-lipped and secretive.

Had I succeeded in locating the boy, I would have adopted him. He must have grown up as a Catholic Christian blissfully ignorant of who his father was.'

Coming back to Rajiv Gandhi, we all know now that he changed his so called Parsi religion to become a Catholic to marry Sania Maino of Turin , Italy . Rajiv became Roberto. His daughter's name is Bianca and son's name is Raul. Quite cleverly the same names are presented to the people of India as Priyanka and Rahul.

What is amazing is the extent of our people's ignorance in such matters. The press conference that Rajiv Gandhi gave in London after taking over as Prime minister of India was very informative. In this press conference, Rajiv boasted that he was NOT a Hindu but a Parsi. Mind you, speaking of the Parsi religion, he had no Parsi ancestor at all. His grandmother (father's mother) had turned Muslim after having abandoned the Parsi religion to marry Nawab Khan.

It is the western press that waged a blitz of misinformation on behalf of Rajiv. From the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, the big guns raised Rajiv to heaven. The children's encyclopaedias recorded that Rajiv was a qualified Mechanical Engineer from the revered University of Cambridge . No doubt US kids are among the most misinformed in the world today! The reality is that in all three years of his tenure at that University Rajiv had not passed a single exam. He had therefore to leave Cambridge without a certificate.

Sonia too had the same benevolent treatment. She was stated to be a student in Cambridge . Such a description is calculated to mislead Indians. She was a student in Cambridge all right, but not of the University of Cambridge , but of one of those fly by night language schools where foreign students come to learn English. Sonia was working as an 'au pair' girl in Cambridge and trying to learn English at the same time. And surprise of surprises, Rajiv was even cremated as per Vedic rites in full view of India's public.
This is the Nehru dynasty that India worships and now a foreigner leads a prestigious national party because of just one qualification being married into the Nehru family. Maneka Gandhi, though Indian, herself is being accepted by the non-Congress parties not because she was a former model or an animal lover, but for her links to the Nehru family.

Saying that an Italian (or any foreigner) should not lead India will amount to narrow mindedness, but if Sania Maino (now Sonia) had served India like, say, Mother Teresa or Annie Besant, i.e. in any wayon her own rights, then all Indians should be proud of her just as how proud we are of Mother Teresa.

OR
Saying that any other party which comes to rule India is better is again equally worse.

The point is Indians who nominate the people to stand in these elections; and the people who vote their rulers (i.e. the authorities) must know that truth eventually come out some day. Don't allow the famous land of India (our motherland) to be looked down by others

Hunger India

Two year old Ramsu is a young life ebbing away, thanks to insensitivity of the government. Two out of three children are mal-nourished in the country. In certain areas, as many as 50% infants die of hunger which is usually disguised by the more decent word "malnutrition". One out of every four mothers dying of hunger in the world is an Indian - a record which puts to shame the distinction of being one of the highest food producers. Food, which we Netizens take for granted, is an alien word for a sizeable Indian underclass.

Selling of children in return for 300 rupees is not uncommon in parts of India. That at least keeps the hearth warm for the remaining. Thousands of women are pushed into prostitution by the need to keep the wolf from the door. Humans compete against dogs and stray cows for their share of food found in the heaps of garbage. Imagine your own siblings or children in their place and you will only just begin to confront the reality.

Green revolution (food) and white revolution (milk) may have given the government an 'achievement' to pull in votes with, but an average Indian is entitled to only one cup of milk every three days, an egg every five, a banana or a coconut once in 10 days. Thus he would manage to stave off malnutrition, to the enormous relief of the government which can then safely go back to counting the poor. Or the deaths of poor due to 'diseases' which we all know is another word for 'hunger'. Rotting of millions of tonnes of foodgrain is just another statistics for the politicians - an achievement in fact for them to brag about the self-sufficiency in food production.

Justice System

In India today we witness crimes being committed, but there is no criminal! During the first half of 2006, India’s justice delivery system was put in the dock and adjudged guilty. In a series of high-profile cases, the criminals have not been brought to book and there is widespread perception that the system has not delivered. Indeed, there is a near total failure of the system.

Witnesses who turn hostile have now become a regular feature, clearly pointing to the role of money and muscle-power. It seems that the effects of money and influence extend beyond the witnesses. Often, the accused are the kin of politicians and other powerful people.

A combination of shoddy investigation, poor prosecution, sheer inefficiency, corrupt authorities and general insensitivity in the society have ensured that the criminals go scot-free.

The impression seems to have grown amongst the well connected that they can get away with anything. Sadly, they seem to be right. It is difficult to recall an instance of anyone from the power-class being convicted - despite dozens of cases of corruption, rape, rioting and even murder.

The police - by and large - are willing recipients, as is much of the bureaucracy and politicians. As a result, the law and law-enforcers are neither feared nor respected.

India’s judiciary has, for long, been respected for its independence, erudition, and vision. The highest court has delivered many landmark judgments and has sometimes been a more powerful voice of the people than their elected representatives. Yet, the overall system is so overburdened, its arteries so clogged, that its heart is in danger.

Cases that linger for a decade or more - thanks to endless adjournments, transfers, vacations and procedural flaws - make courts the place to delay justice rather than to seek it. Add bribery, threats, false cases and hostile witnesses, and what you get is a mockery of justice. Little wonder, then, that those who can take the law into their own hands do so.

A number of reports and commissions have made some excellent recommendations for desperately needed police reform. However, the absence of people’s pressure has made it easy for politicians with vested interests to scuttle any reform.

Meanwhile, those whose voices carry weight with the government have focused on all other aspects - from privatisation and economic reform, to FDI and labour reform - but not on the pressing need for radical reform of the justice system.

The corporate world - and, indeed, all of the educated India - must realise that if there is one show-stopper for an economy on the roll, one deterrent to investment and one storm to end their shining party, it is social upheaval.

If over 160 districts in the country are “Naxal-affected”, at least part of this growing spread of violent armed action is due to the perceived lack of a fair and equitable justice system. The answer to Naxalism is social and economic justice, not merely more police forces.

1984 violence against Sikhs, forced exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir and their genocide, intrusion of foreigners in North East and sufferings of natives are some manifestation of the system not being made accountable. It is time we woke up.

The Judiciary - Hopes and Fears

When one examines the hopes and fears that one has from judiciary, it is necessary to define the role that one expects the judiciary to play in the country. Apart from dispensing justice in individual disputes brought before it, the judiciary is expected to be the guardian of the Constitution and is supposed to protect the fundamental rights of the people and implement the rule of law. This in particular means that that the judiciary is expected to protect the civil rights under Articles 14 (equality), 19 (speech, movement, profession etc.) and 21 (life and liberty), not just in the narrow literal sense, but also in the liberal purposive sense in which the Supreme Court itself has interpreted these rights. Thus, the Judiciary is expected to protect the rights of the common people of the country to a free and dignified life where every citizen is guaranteed the means of securing the basic necessities of leading a dignified life, such as food, clothing, housing, healthcare and education etc. The judiciary is also expected to ensure that the executive and the legislature function within their powers and do not encroach on the fundamental rights of the people.

When one examines the performance of the judiciary on the above parameters, particularly its role in this year, one would be sorely disappointed. As an instrument of dispensation of justice in individual cases, the judiciary remains a largely non-functional institution, which is inaccessible and useless for the vast majority of the people. Not more than 2% people of the country can hope to get any meaningful justice through the existing judicial system. While the poor cannot access the system without lawyers whom they cannot afford, even those who can access it, remain stuck in courts for years, by which time the court’s judgement is useless or meaningless to them. On top of all this is the considerable corruption of the judiciary, facilitated by the total lack of transparency and accountability of the judiciary. Thus justice through the present judicial system remains an expensive illusion for the vast majority of even those who have the means to access the system.

The repeated recommendations of the Law Commissions and even the directions of the Supreme Court to substantially increase the number of judges and courts have been ignored by the government with contempt. The Supreme Court has also not bothered to enforce their own orders about this. Both the government and the Higher Courts are equally culpable in not even filling the existing vacancies in the Courts. On an average, more than 20% vacancies exist in courts at all levels and at all times. These vacancies have been steadily increasing during the past year. This is demonstrative of a callous neglect of the need for an effective instrument for the dispensation of justice, on the part of the government and the judiciary.

There is however a silver lining in the shape of the newly passed Gram Nyayalaya Act, which promises to put in, place many more courts at the block and tehsil level. These, because of their supposed simple and informal procedures, should make them accessible to common people without the mediation of lawyers. If properly implemented and actualized, these Gram Nyayalayas can make justice quick and accessible to the common people for at least small disputes and petty crimes, which constitute the majority of the disputes affecting ordinary citizens. These do offer a ray of hope to the people, but given the past record of the government in the lack of priority to the dispensation of justice, its implementation on the ground will require considerable public pressure.

On the other measure of acting as the guardian of the Constitution, the judiciary’s performance has been equally disheartening. Barring a few honourable exceptions, we find that the judiciary has largely failed to protect the fundamental rights of the people and failed to step in when the executive and the legislature have made inroads into it. On Civil liberties, we find that the courts have upheld the validity of totally draconian laws like POTA and the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. They have allowed the victimization and prolonged incarceration of many totally peaceful, committed and selfless activists like Binayak Sen and others, under these draconian laws. Even when innocent persons are victimized for malafide considerations by fabricating evidence, oral or documentary, the judiciary has not taken steps to penalize the police officers responsible for the same. This has resulted in a culture of impunity in the police as a result of which they have been casually picking up and falsely charging human rights and other activists who are questioning the actions of the police and other institutions of the ruling establishment. This victimization, which effectively cripples an activist and ties him down to courts for years, is now taking place on a massive scale across the country. The courts, which are duty bound to stop this, have been turning a blind eye to this massive violation of the most basic rights of these activists. The message going out is that peaceful protest and resistance to establishment policies and actions is useless, forcing many activists to rethink their strategy of peaceful resistance. The past year has only seen the acceleration of this trend of passive acceptance by the courts of the massive and gross violation of the rights of activists. The Chief Justice of India recently in a conference on Terrorism, Human Rights and the rule of law gave a very enlightened speech on these issues and on the obligation of the courts to ensure that Civil rights of alleged terrorists are respected even in the present climate of jingoism. One hopes that the Courts will imbibe the letter and spirit of the Chief Justice’s speech in their rulings in cases involving the Civil liberties of all people, particularly activists.

Though the Supreme Court reopened the trial of the Best Bakery case of Gujarat and has ordered the review of many investigations by a special investigative team, the trials of the major cases of the Gujarat genocide of 2002 have been stayed by the Supreme Court for the last more than 3 years, and it has not found the time to hear it. The Gujarat genocide has been one of the most egregious examples of the violations of the rule of law. It is a crying shame that those exposed to have been responsible for the genocide are not only walking free but are comfortably ensconced in positions of power from where they have been preventing any proper investigations into the mass murders. As a result, Gujarat has been turned into a virtually fascist State where communal polarization is near total with no space for secular politics. Gujarat remains the biggest blot on the landscape for the rule of law in the country. Despite some halfhearted attempts, the failure of the Supreme Court to deal with a State, which has virtually seceded, from the Constitution must count as another blot on its record.

Unfortunately, the role of the courts in protecting the rights of the poor to a dignified life has been no more illuminating. The rapid appropriation of land and resources from the poor by the State for large Companies, domestic and multinational, for SEZs, mining and other forms of commercial development has accelerated during the past year. Far from stopping this blatant transfer of resources from the poor to the rich, the Courts have in fact abetted this loot, by giving permission to companies like POSCO and Sterlite/Vedanta to appropriate vast areas of forest land, being used by thousands of tribal families for their rapacious mining. This massive displacement of the poor and the appropriation of their land and resources coupled with the decimation of agriculture, due to government’s policies, has forced many to commit suicide, and many to migrate to cities, where they have been forced to live in sub human conditions in Jhuggies built on government land. Far from ensuring that they get proper housing, which is their fundamental right, the courts have been treating them like “pickpockets”, and have often ordered the demolition of their Jhuggies, without notice to them, in gross violation of Natural Justice and their fundamental rights. All this is leading to the buildup of massive anger among the poor directed at the government and the courts. It should hardly be surprising that Naxalites are finding more recruits and are gradually increasing their sway in the country.

Part of the reason for this insensitivity of the judiciary towards the poor is the manner of selection and appointment of judges. This has been appropriated by the judiciary who has been making the appointments in an arbitrary, non-transparent and nepotistic manner. The higher judiciary has thus become a self-perpetuating oligarchy. Even when appointments have been shown to be made without even consulting the collegium of senior judges, which was declared to be mandatory, the Supreme Court has not set them aside. They have been stoutly resisting the formation of in independent Judicial Commission, which could select judges on some transparent and rational basis.

The past year has also seen the eruption of a large number of judicial scandals. The Justice Sabharwal case was followed by the Ghaziabad provident fund scam, involving more than 30 judges, including 10 from the higher Courts. Then came the Chandigarh case, where Rs. 15 lacs in cash were delivered by the clerk of the Additional Advocate General of Haryana to the residence of a High Court Judge. This was apparently meant for some other judge and was mistakenly delivered to another. The CBI is still investigating both these cases. Then there was the case of Justice Soumitra Sen of Calcutta who was found by a Committee of 3 judges to have misappropriated large sums of money, which he received as a court receiver. The Chief Justice has recommended his impeachment more than 6 months ago, but nothing has moved on that.

All these cases have highlighted the need for a Constitutional Judicial Complaints commission to investigate allegations against judges and take action against them. This is again being stoutly resisted by the Judiciary which only wants an “in-house body of sitting judges” alone to examine complaints against judges. Bowing to the pressure from the judiciary, the government has introduced the Judges Inquiry Amendment Bill to provide for an in house judicial council to deal with complaints against judges of the higher judiciary. Even if such a bill were passed, it would be a non-starter with virtually no one daring to make complaints before such an in-house body.

The silver lining however is, that the media has finally shed its fear of contempt, and is now gleefully reporting these cases of judicial corruption. Sometimes however, they go overboard by reporting allegations, which may defame innocent judges before their version is heard, and the truth determined. However, the media glare and the attendant public campaign on judicial accountability has certainly succeeded in bringing this issue to the fore and has put pressure on the government and the judiciary to urgently address this issue. I do not think that they can resist this pressure much longer and the day is not far when an independent Judicial Complaints Commission is set up to examine complaints against judges and take action against them.

Rape of India

YOU say that our government is inefficient. YOU say that our laws are too old. YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage. YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke, mails never reach their destination. YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.

YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?

Take YOURSELF on your way to Singapore. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International Best. In Singapore, you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores.

In London you would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange at 10 pounds a month to, "see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else."

In Washington you would not dare to speed and then tell the traffic cop, "Jaanata hai saale main kaun hoon?" Why don't you spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo? Why don't you buy fake certificates in Boston?

We are still talking of the same YOU… YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country why can’t you be the same here in India?

In Singapore or London or Washington, you don't say anything. You DO.

In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done his business. Same in Japan. Will the Indian citizen do that here? We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of them.

When it comes to burning social issues like girl child, dowry and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? "It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone take action?"

So who's going to change the system? What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us, it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities & the government. But definitely not ME and YOU.

Bribery, tax evasion, unlicensed business, unethical practices, etc. have not reached the same dimensions anywhere as they have in India, thanks to each citizen's sense of involvement with the country. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.

Does this article prick your conscience? What are you going to do about it?

The Condition of India

Do you think India is a free country? Think again, because if you study and analyze deeply, with deep regret I say, you would find we are not free yet. Sixty years ago we were made slaves using muscle power and divide and rule policy, and now we are made slaves using new dollars.
How, do you wonder? Think about the youngsters who work in BPO/KPO industry. They are lured by higher salaries and open work environment. But they have to sacrifice their sleep in return. People in the west make us work throughout the day and night just by throwing some dollars and we are so greedy that we readily agree to work in the night shifts just to get some money.
Think about software and IT industry. We think that we are doing great in software and IT too because we are getting enough money that we can enjoy our lives. But what kind of orders are we getting? The stark reality is that we work like machines and do repetitive stuffs. We are not doing anything new that we should be proud of. We are not innovating anything. We are just working as clerks who are given some routine work to complete and then given some money in return.
This way, we cannot progress. India has become a place of high end educated clerks who are mad after money. And there is a breed of dealers and middlemen who get contracts from some foreign countries and get it done in India on cheap rates.
Whoever wants to get his work done for cheap comes to India. And we are very happy that we are getting work, and progressing. Our youth is so oblivious that it cares only for money, power and sex. There is nothing else they can work for and think of. That day is not far when India would be separated into multiple pieces and would be overpowered by other countries. We will just work as laborers throughout our lives chasing fake materialistic luxuries.

Blasting Population

It tracks the thirty-three births a minute, two thousand an hour, forty-eight thousand a day, which calculates to nearly 12 million every year. That is roughly the size of Australia.
For some in India, this popular milestone is cause for celebration. As a current political slogan puts it: “Nothing’s impossible when one billion Indians work together.”
The reality of a billion in India is something else.
“It’s a cause for very serious concern,” says population expert Ashish Bose.
Bose says India has enough food for now, but each birth eats deeper into the country’s shrinking cropland and consumes more of its dwindling water supply. Each illness threatens to swamp the health care system, while millions of unemployed already flood the cities in search of work.
India’s Complex Challenge
Slowing the population growth, says Bose, will be a greater challenge than anything India has ever faced.
“It is as complex as producing a nuclear bomb,” says Bose, “Or shooting off a missile.”

Complex because the cultural roots of population growth in India run so deep.
“God said ‘Go forth and produce’ and we just went ahead and did exactly that,” says Author Shobha De.
De says Indians are aware of the need for birth control, but too many remain ignorant of contraception methods or are unwilling to discuss them. This is also a land still bound to ancient customs, such as producing a son.
“The pressure to produce the son is so predominant,” says De, “that a lot of families have more children than they actually want or can afford.”
300 million living in extreme poverty, while half the populations is still illiterate. More people is exactly what India does not need to celebrate.
“There’s very little to celebrate unless we can provide for our people, and at this point, India cannot,” says De. “I think of it more as a tragedy than something to be proud of.”
In the meantime, that relentless population clock just keeps on ticking and ticking