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SONIA GANDHI, A REALITY CHECK
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SONIA GANDHI, A REALITY CHECK.
INTRODUCTION
Patriotic Indians should thank the President of India for having the courage, by
citing a legal hitch, to dissuade Ms. Sonia Gandhi from staking her claim to
form the government on May 17th this year. She therefore, despite all the
contrived media hype, did not, and could not, become the Prime Minister of 1
billion plus people of India.
It can now be said that Bharat Mata has been saved from a monumental,
devastating, and permanent injury to her national interest and to the patriotic
psyche of Indians.
Therefore, it should be the resolve of every Indian to make any and every effort
that can be made in a democracy, to ensure that Ms. Sonia Gandhi is kept
permanently out of reckoning for any public office. For those who instinctively
understand that imperative, this Note has been written to explain the factual
basis for this rational determination, and suggest what patriotic Indians can do
now to implement that democratic and patriotic resolution.
My opposition to Ms. Sonia Gandhi is not merely because she is Italian---born,
although that by itself is a major issue. In other democratic countries,
including in Italy, such an issue [of foreign-born aspiring to be head of
government]would not even arise at all because the issue has already been
settled by incorporating into law that a person cannot hold the highest public
office unless he or she is native born.
In India there is no such law but the President, according my knowledge, has
correctly acted on a proviso to Section 5 of the Indian Citizenship Act[1955]
which requires the Union Home Ministry to lay down conditions to Indian
citizenship acquired by foreigners by registration, condition based on the
principle of reciprocity[see annexure 1 & 2]. In Ms Gandhi’s case, such of those
conditions that apply to Indians on becoming citizens of Italy, would apply to
her.
The President reportedly had communicated to Ms. Gandhi on the afternoon of May
17, 2004, that if she insisted on being invited to form the government, he would
want first to clarify, on a reference to the Supreme Court, whether in view of
this proviso her appointment as PM could be successfully challenged in the
court.
It is fair to assume that this report of the President’s decision is correct,
since the President had before him my petition dated May 15, 2004 [see
Annexure-3] making just that point--- that Ms. Gandhi’s citizenship is
conditional, and in particular she cannot be the PM legally.
The President had also given me an appointment at 12.45 PM on May 17, 2004 to
explain my submissions in person, which I did. I also told him that I would
challenge such a unconstitutional appointment in the Supreme Court just as I had
in 2001 when Ms Jayalalitha was illegally sworn in as Chief Minister by the
Tamil Nadu Governor.
In that case, the Supreme Court had after hearing me and many other
constitutional luminaries, upheld my contention that mere majority in the House
is insufficient for being sworn in to a constitutional office, and that the
constitutional appointing authority must ensure that there are no
disqualifications as well. Ms. Jayalalitha had therefore to step down because
she had been disqualified by her conviction in a trial court in the TANSI
corruption case [filed by me as a private complaint]. She was subsequently
acquitted by the Madras High Court, and hence became eligible the following
year.
I also cited to the President a 1962 Allahabad High Court case which held that
this proviso in the Citizenship Act was binding and lawful.
The nation by the stalling of Sonia becoming Prime Minister of India, has thus
got an unexpected but temporary reprieve, a reprieve received not only because
her citizenship of India by registration is not equal to one by birth even by
Indian law, but a reprieve more because of the national security risk that was
averted.
To comprehend that risk, we must however first understand who Sonia Gandhi
really is and what kind of danger she, her family and her friends in Italy, hold
for India’s national security. Very little is known about the Mainos’ murky
past, and the little that we are told about Sonia are lies. In other words,
Indians do not know who Sonia really is or what she represents [see Annexure-4].
Even for an Indian born citizen, we find it difficult to know a person’s true
background, but for a foreign-born it is extremely hard because of the
remoteness of the place and the language barrier for most people, in this
case---Italian.
This note is thus an aide d’memoir of certain verifiable facts that taken
together constitute the danger that Sonia Gandhi represents for the nation. And
that is the real Sonia and what she represents.
-- Three Lies --IntroductionSonia's introduction into IndiaSonia's KGB
connectionsSonia's contempt for laws of IndiaSonia Gandhi is the modern Robert
CliveWhat patriotic Indians can do
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 [see Annexure-5] 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 [see Annexure-6] 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.
Earlier, in 1999 in her biographical data given under her signature to the Lok
Sabha Secretariat and which was published in Parliament’s Who’s Who, she had
made the same false claim [see Annexure-7].
But later she wrote to the Lok Sabha Speaker, after I had pointed it out to him
in a written complaint of a Breach of Ethics of the Lok Sabha, that it was a
“typing mistake”. This qualifies her for inclusion thus in the the Guinness Book
of World Records as the longest typing mistake in history.
The truth is that Ms. Gandhi has never studied in any college anywhere. She did
go to a Catholic nun--run seminary school called Maria Ausiliatrice in Giaveno
[15 kms from her adopted home town of Orbassabo]. Poverty those days had forced
young Italian girls to go to such missionaries and then in their teens go to UK
to get jobs as cleaning maids, waitresses and au pair. The Mainos were poor
those days. Sonia’s father was a mason and mother a share cropper [now the
family is worth at least $ 2 billion: (see Annexure-10)].
Sonia thus went to the town of Cambridge UK and first learnt some English in a
teaching shop called Lennox School [which has since 1990 been wound up]. That is
her “education”--- enough English language to get domestic help jobs.
But since in Indian society, education is socially highly valued, thus to fool
the Indian public, Sonia Gandhi wilfully lied about her qualifications in
Parliamentary records [which is a Breach of Ethics Rules] and in a sworn
affidavit [which is criminal offence under IPC, severe enough to disqualify her
from being MP]. This also violated the spirit of the Supreme Court judgment
requiring candidates to reveal their educational qualification on an affidavit
[see Annexure-8].
These three lies indicate that Ms. Sonia Gandhi has something to hide, or has a
hidden agenda for India to brazenly fool Indians for some ulterior purpose. We
therefore need to find out more about her.
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 [see
Annexure-9] 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; see Annexure-10]
Rajiv Gandhi had about $2 billion in numbered Swiss bank accounts—which Sonia
inherited upon his assassination.
Dr. Yevgenia Albats, Ph.D[Harvard], is a noted Russian scholar and journalist,
and was a member of the KGB Commission set up by President Yeltsin in August
1991. She was privy to the Soviet intelligence files that documented these deals
and KGB facilitation of the same. In her book—“The State Within a State: The KGB
in the Soviet Union”, she even gives the reference numbers of such intelligence
files[see Annexure-11] which can now be accessed by any Indian government
through a formal request to the Kremlin.
The Russian Government in 1992 was confronted with the Albats’ disclosure by the
media. The official spokesperson of the government confirmed the veracity of the
disclosure [which was published in Hindu in 1992; see Annexure-12]. The
spokesperson defended such financial payments as necessary in “Soviet
ideological interest”. Part of the funds were used by the Maino family to fund
loyal Congress party candidates in the General Elections [see Annexure-13].
When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, things changed for Ms. Sonia
Gandhi. Her patron nation had been disbanded into 16 countries. The rump that
became Russia was in a financial mess and disorder. So, Ms. Sonia Gandhi
switched and became a supporter of another communist country much to the
annoyance of the Russians.
The national security ramification of this ‘annoyance’ is now significant: The
President of Russia today is Putin, a former dyed-in-the-wool KGB officer. Upon
Dr. Manmohan Singh’s government taking office, Russia called back it’s career
diplomat Ambassador in New Delhi and immediately posted in his place, as the new
Ambassador, a person who was the KGB station chief in New Delhi during the
1970s.
In view of Dr. Albats revelation, it stands to reason that the new Ambassador
would have known first hand about Sonia’s connections with the KGB. He may have
in fact been her “controller” and local contact. The new Indian government today
which is defacto Sonia’s, cannot afford to annoy him or even disregard Russian
demands that come from him. The Sonia coterie will obviously seek to placate him
so as not to risk exposure. Is this not a major national security risk for India
and a delicate matter for the nation’s sovereignty?
Of course, all Indians would like good normal and healthy relations with Russia.
Who can forget their assistance to us in times of need? Today’s Russia is the
residual legatee of that Soviet Union which helped India. But just because of
that, should we tolerate those in our government set up having clandestine links
with a foreign spy agency? In the United States, the government did not tolerate
an American spying for Israel even though the two countries are as close as any
two countries can be. National security and friendship are as different as chalk
and cheese.
In December 2001, I had filed a Writ Petition in the Delhi High Court with the
photocopies of the KGB documents, and sought a CBI investigation which the
Vajpayee Government was stoutly refusing. Earlier, Minister of State for CBI,
Vasundara Raje[now Rajasthan CM], on my letter dated March 3, 2001, had ordered
the CBI to investigate. But after Sonia Gandhi and her party stalled the
proceedings of Parliament on this issue, the then Prime Minister Vajpayee
overruled and cancelled Vasundara’s direction to the CBI.
The Delhi High Court in May 2002 issued a direction to the CBI to ascertain from
Russia the truth of my charges. The CBI procrastinated for two years, and
finally told the Court that without an FIR registered, the Russians will not
entertain any such query. But who stopped the CBI from registering an FIR? The
Vajpayee government! And why? Thereby hangs another tale.
The next hearing of the case is imminent. But now Sonia is in the driver’s seat,
and the CBI has been reduced in independence even further.
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 [see Annexure-14].
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] (see Annexure-15).
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 [see Annexure-16] 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 [see
Annexures-17].
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 [see Annexure-18], 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]. (see Annexure-19) 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. (See annexure- 20)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.
R. Singh
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Janshakti
SONIA GANDHI, A REALITY CHECK.
INTRODUCTION
Patriotic Indians should thank the President of India for having the courage, by
citing a legal hitch, to dissuade Ms. Sonia Gandhi from staking her claim to
form the government on May 17th this year. She therefore, despite all the
contrived media hype, did not, and could not, become the Prime Minister of 1
billion plus people of India.
It can now be said that Bharat Mata has been saved from a monumental,
devastating, and permanent injury to her national interest and to the patriotic
psyche of Indians.
Therefore, it should be the resolve of every Indian to make any and every effort
that can be made in a democracy, to ensure that Ms. Sonia Gandhi is kept
permanently out of reckoning for any public office. For those who instinctively
understand that imperative, this Note has been written to explain the factual
basis for this rational determination, and suggest what patriotic Indians can do
now to implement that democratic and patriotic resolution.
My opposition to Ms. Sonia Gandhi is not merely because she is Italian---born,
although that by itself is a major issue. In other democratic countries,
including in Italy, such an issue [of foreign-born aspiring to be head of
government]would not even arise at all because the issue has already been
settled by incorporating into law that a person cannot hold the highest public
office unless he or she is native born.
In India there is no such law but the President, according my knowledge, has
correctly acted on a proviso to Section 5 of the Indian Citizenship Act[1955]
which requires the Union Home Ministry to lay down conditions to Indian
citizenship acquired by foreigners by registration, condition based on the
principle of reciprocity[see annexure 1 & 2]. In Ms Gandhi’s case, such of those
conditions that apply to Indians on becoming citizens of Italy, would apply to
her.
The President reportedly had communicated to Ms. Gandhi on the afternoon of May
17, 2004, that if she insisted on being invited to form the government, he would
want first to clarify, on a reference to the Supreme Court, whether in view of
this proviso her appointment as PM could be successfully challenged in the
court.
It is fair to assume that this report of the President’s decision is correct,
since the President had before him my petition dated May 15, 2004 [see
Annexure-3] making just that point--- that Ms. Gandhi’s citizenship is
conditional, and in particular she cannot be the PM legally.
The President had also given me an appointment at 12.45 PM on May 17, 2004 to
explain my submissions in person, which I did. I also told him that I would
challenge such a unconstitutional appointment in the Supreme Court just as I had
in 2001 when Ms Jayalalitha was illegally sworn in as Chief Minister by the
Tamil Nadu Governor.
In that case, the Supreme Court had after hearing me and many other
constitutional luminaries, upheld my contention that mere majority in the House
is insufficient for being sworn in to a constitutional office, and that the
constitutional appointing authority must ensure that there are no
disqualifications as well. Ms. Jayalalitha had therefore to step down because
she had been disqualified by her conviction in a trial court in the TANSI
corruption case [filed by me as a private complaint]. She was subsequently
acquitted by the Madras High Court, and hence became eligible the following
year.
I also cited to the President a 1962 Allahabad High Court case which held that
this proviso in the Citizenship Act was binding and lawful.
The nation by the stalling of Sonia becoming Prime Minister of India, has thus
got an unexpected but temporary reprieve, a reprieve received not only because
her citizenship of India by registration is not equal to one by birth even by
Indian law, but a reprieve more because of the national security risk that was
averted.
To comprehend that risk, we must however first understand who Sonia Gandhi
really is and what kind of danger she, her family and her friends in Italy, hold
for India’s national security. Very little is known about the Mainos’ murky
past, and the little that we are told about Sonia are lies. In other words,
Indians do not know who Sonia really is or what she represents [see Annexure-4].
Even for an Indian born citizen, we find it difficult to know a person’s true
background, but for a foreign-born it is extremely hard because of the
remoteness of the place and the language barrier for most people, in this
case---Italian.
This note is thus an aide d’memoir of certain verifiable facts that taken
together constitute the danger that Sonia Gandhi represents for the nation. And
that is the real Sonia and what she represents.
-- Three Lies --IntroductionSonia's introduction into IndiaSonia's KGB
connectionsSonia's contempt for laws of IndiaSonia Gandhi is the modern Robert
CliveWhat patriotic Indians can do
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 [see Annexure-5] 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 [see Annexure-6] 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.
Earlier, in 1999 in her biographical data given under her signature to the Lok
Sabha Secretariat and which was published in Parliament’s Who’s Who, she had
made the same false claim [see Annexure-7].
But later she wrote to the Lok Sabha Speaker, after I had pointed it out to him
in a written complaint of a Breach of Ethics of the Lok Sabha, that it was a
“typing mistake”. This qualifies her for inclusion thus in the the Guinness Book
of World Records as the longest typing mistake in history.
The truth is that Ms. Gandhi has never studied in any college anywhere. She did
go to a Catholic nun--run seminary school called Maria Ausiliatrice in Giaveno
[15 kms from her adopted home town of Orbassabo]. Poverty those days had forced
young Italian girls to go to such missionaries and then in their teens go to UK
to get jobs as cleaning maids, waitresses and au pair. The Mainos were poor
those days. Sonia’s father was a mason and mother a share cropper [now the
family is worth at least $ 2 billion: (see Annexure-10)].
Sonia thus went to the town of Cambridge UK and first learnt some English in a
teaching shop called Lennox School [which has since 1990 been wound up]. That is
her “education”--- enough English language to get domestic help jobs.
But since in Indian society, education is socially highly valued, thus to fool
the Indian public, Sonia Gandhi wilfully lied about her qualifications in
Parliamentary records [which is a Breach of Ethics Rules] and in a sworn
affidavit [which is criminal offence under IPC, severe enough to disqualify her
from being MP]. This also violated the spirit of the Supreme Court judgment
requiring candidates to reveal their educational qualification on an affidavit
[see Annexure-8].
These three lies indicate that Ms. Sonia Gandhi has something to hide, or has a
hidden agenda for India to brazenly fool Indians for some ulterior purpose. We
therefore need to find out more about her.
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 [see
Annexure-9] 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; see Annexure-10]
Rajiv Gandhi had about $2 billion in numbered Swiss bank accounts—which Sonia
inherited upon his assassination.
Dr. Yevgenia Albats, Ph.D[Harvard], is a noted Russian scholar and journalist,
and was a member of the KGB Commission set up by President Yeltsin in August
1991. She was privy to the Soviet intelligence files that documented these deals
and KGB facilitation of the same. In her book—“The State Within a State: The KGB
in the Soviet Union”, she even gives the reference numbers of such intelligence
files[see Annexure-11] which can now be accessed by any Indian government
through a formal request to the Kremlin.
The Russian Government in 1992 was confronted with the Albats’ disclosure by the
media. The official spokesperson of the government confirmed the veracity of the
disclosure [which was published in Hindu in 1992; see Annexure-12]. The
spokesperson defended such financial payments as necessary in “Soviet
ideological interest”. Part of the funds were used by the Maino family to fund
loyal Congress party candidates in the General Elections [see Annexure-13].
When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, things changed for Ms. Sonia
Gandhi. Her patron nation had been disbanded into 16 countries. The rump that
became Russia was in a financial mess and disorder. So, Ms. Sonia Gandhi
switched and became a supporter of another communist country much to the
annoyance of the Russians.
The national security ramification of this ‘annoyance’ is now significant: The
President of Russia today is Putin, a former dyed-in-the-wool KGB officer. Upon
Dr. Manmohan Singh’s government taking office, Russia called back it’s career
diplomat Ambassador in New Delhi and immediately posted in his place, as the new
Ambassador, a person who was the KGB station chief in New Delhi during the
1970s.
In view of Dr. Albats revelation, it stands to reason that the new Ambassador
would have known first hand about Sonia’s connections with the KGB. He may have
in fact been her “controller” and local contact. The new Indian government today
which is defacto Sonia’s, cannot afford to annoy him or even disregard Russian
demands that come from him. The Sonia coterie will obviously seek to placate him
so as not to risk exposure. Is this not a major national security risk for India
and a delicate matter for the nation’s sovereignty?
Of course, all Indians would like good normal and healthy relations with Russia.
Who can forget their assistance to us in times of need? Today’s Russia is the
residual legatee of that Soviet Union which helped India. But just because of
that, should we tolerate those in our government set up having clandestine links
with a foreign spy agency? In the United States, the government did not tolerate
an American spying for Israel even though the two countries are as close as any
two countries can be. National security and friendship are as different as chalk
and cheese.
In December 2001, I had filed a Writ Petition in the Delhi High Court with the
photocopies of the KGB documents, and sought a CBI investigation which the
Vajpayee Government was stoutly refusing. Earlier, Minister of State for CBI,
Vasundara Raje[now Rajasthan CM], on my letter dated March 3, 2001, had ordered
the CBI to investigate. But after Sonia Gandhi and her party stalled the
proceedings of Parliament on this issue, the then Prime Minister Vajpayee
overruled and cancelled Vasundara’s direction to the CBI.
The Delhi High Court in May 2002 issued a direction to the CBI to ascertain from
Russia the truth of my charges. The CBI procrastinated for two years, and
finally told the Court that without an FIR registered, the Russians will not
entertain any such query. But who stopped the CBI from registering an FIR? The
Vajpayee government! And why? Thereby hangs another tale.
The next hearing of the case is imminent. But now Sonia is in the driver’s seat,
and the CBI has been reduced in independence even further.
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 [see Annexure-14].
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] (see Annexure-15).
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 [see Annexure-16] 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 [see
Annexures-17].
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 [see Annexure-18], 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]. (see Annexure-19) 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. (See annexure- 20)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.
R. Singh
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
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