Saturday, July 30, 2011
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muslimbhagawat 7 hours ago
Protest the anti-Hindu 'Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence
Bill, 2011'
By Francois Gautier
I am a westerner and a born Christian. I was mainly brought up in catholic
schools, my uncle, Father Guy Gautier, a gem of a man, was the parish head of
the beautiful Saint Jean de Montmartre church in Paris ; my father, Jacques
Gautier, a famous artist in France, and a truly good person if there ever was
one, was a fervent catholic all his life, went to church nearly every day and
lived by his Christian values.
There are certain concepts in Christianity I am proud of : charity for others,
the equality of system in many western countries, Christ’s message of love and
compassion….Yet, I am a
little uneasy when I see how much Christianity is taking over India under the
reign of Sonia Gandhi :
According to a 2001
census, there are about 2.34 million Christians in India,not even 2.5% of the
nation, a negligible amount. Yet there are today five Christian Chief ministers
in Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
One should add that the
majority of politicians in Sonia Gandhi’s closed circle are either Christians
or Muslims. She seems to have no confidence in Hindus.
1.Ambika Soni, a Christian, is General
Secretary of the Congress and a very powerful person, with close access to
Sonia Gandhi.
2.Oscar Fernandez is Union Programme
Implementation Minister. Margaret Alwa is the eminence grise of Maharashtra.
3.Karnataka is virtually controlled by
AK Anthony, whose secretaries are all from the Southern Christian association.
4.Valson Thampu, a Hindu hater, is
Chairman NCERT curriculum Review Committee.
5.John Dayal, another known Hindu
baiter, has been named by Sonia Gandhi in the National Integration Council ;
and
Kancha Ilaya, who hates Hindus, is
being allowed by the Indian Government to lobby with the UN and US Congress so
that caste discrimination in India is taken-up by these bodies. (One can also
add to list Ajit jogi, and Digvijay Singh both Christian converts & also
Prannoy Roy, his niece Arundhati ‘Suzanna’ Roy )
I have nothing
personally against Sonia Gandhi, in fact she probably is a good person to win
the allegiance of so many and certainly a loving mother. I share with her a
love for India, like her I have lived in this country for over 30 years and
like her I have married an Indian.
But nevertheless,
since she is at the top, Christian conversions in India seem to have gone in
overdrive.More than 4,000 foreign Christian missionaries are involved in
conversion activities across different states.
In Tripura, there were no Christians
at independence; there are 120.000 today, a 90% increase since 1991.
The figures are even more striking in
Arunachal Pradesh, where there were only 1710 Christians in 1961, but 1.2
million today, as well as 780 churches!
In Andhra Pradesh, churches are
coming-up every day in far flung villages and there was even an attempt to
set-up one near Tirupati. Many of the North-East separatist movements, such as
the Mizo or the Bodos, are not only Christian dominated, but also sometimes
function with the covert backing of the missionaries.
In Kerala, particularly in the poor
coastal districts, you find “miracle boxes” put in local churches: the gullible
villager writes out a paper mentioning his wish: a fishing boat, a loan for a
pukka house, fees for the son’s schooling… And lo, a few weeks later, the
miracle happens ! And of course the whole family converts, making others in the
village follow suit. During the Tsunami, entire dalit villages in Tamil Nadu
were converted to Christianity with the lure of money.
It is true that there have been a few
backlashes against missionaries and nuns, particularly the gruesome murder of
Staines and his two sons. But Belgium
historian Konenraad Elst laments that "When over a thousand Hindus are
killed and a quarter million Hindus ethnically cleansed in Kashmir, the world
media doesn’t even notice, but watch the worldwide hue and cry when a few local
riots take place and a few missionaries are killed by unidentified tribal
miscreants. Christian Naga terrorists have been killing non-Christians for
decades on end, and this has never been an issue with the world media, except
to bewail the “oppression” of the Nagas by “Hindu India” .
More than 20,000 people have lost their lives to insurgency in Assam and
Manipur in the past two decades. As recently as last week, four paramilitary
Assam Rifles soldiers were killed in an ambush yesterday by the outlawed United
National Liberation Front (UNLF).
The other day I was at the Madras Medical center, the foremost heart hospital
in Madras. Right when you enter the lobby, you find a chapel, inviting
everybody to pray, there are pictures and quotations of Christ everywhere and a
priest visits all the patients, without being invited at all.
Educational
institutes and orphanages run by Christian organisations have become big
business in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and other states.
In Pondicherry, where I am often, schools run by Adventists force their pupils,
mostly Hindus, to say Christian prayers every day and attend mass. They are
constantly fed anti Hindu slogans and biases under different forms, whether it
is in history books, or discourses by priests during religious classes. Even in
the elite schools or colleges, such as Saint Stephen in Delhi, Saint Xavier in
Calcutta or Loyola college in Madras, where no direct proletization is
attempted, Hindu pupils
are subtly encouraged towards scepticism of their own religion, and admiration
of whatever is Western.
One should also say that it’s a one way traffic: remember the furore when MM
Joshi wanted the Saraswati hymn to be sung at a Chief Ministers’ meet on education?
And imagine the uproar in secular India if portions of the Bhagavad Gita, this
Bible for all humanity, were read at the beginning of the day in public schools?
Sonia Gandhi said during the last National Integration Council meeting : “We are
committed to ideological battle against communal forces which seek to destroy
our diversity and polarise us. Certain parties promote polarisation and
confrontation. And there are certain regimes in India which promote
communalism.
But is not actually the
Congress under Mrs Gandhi, which is promoting communalism, by insidiously
installing Christians and Muslims (and Marxists) everywhere, propping up
Christian states, allowing a free hand too missionnaries and pressing for
reservations for Christian Dalits and Muslims, as recently done in AP, in a
nation of 850 million Hindus ?
In my country, France, a
Christian majority nation , it would be unthinkable to have Hindus – or even
Indian born French for that matter – in so many positions of power. Impossible
also to find a non-elected, non French, non-Christian person being the absolute
ruler of the country behind the scene as Sonia Gandhi is in India.
Indians like
to say that the greatness of India is that it accepts a foreigner and a
Christian like Sonia Gandhi.But is’nt it rather a weakness and an aberration?
Can’t we find a worthy leader amongst one billion Indians? This is an India
where you see today Swami Avimukteshwarananda Saraswati of Dwarka Peeth, made
to disembark from an Indian Airlines flight for carrying his holy dand, a thin
bamboo stick which is a symbol of their spiritual designation, inside the
aircraft cabin.
Are we heading
then towards a Christian India under Sonia Gandhi’s helm? It would be a
tremendous loss not only to India, but also to the world. For in India, you
find the only living spirituality left on this planet.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Another black day-What are IB and RAW doing? Cannot they mingle with the terrorists and kill them or at least know when they are going to strike and w
This is another black day for all of us. Form hereon there will be more candle light marches, even more dossiers exchanged, the Government will continue to play passing the parcel with our neighbours endlessly, the Government will stage a dramatic halt in the peace talk initiatives and then reinitiate them (like we always do in a few months), they will play every single game that there is to play, from dumb charade to blind man’s buff, but we will never ever pin the donkey’s tail. This is reality and we the resilient citizens are expected to go with the flow. We will continue to do what we do best, we will move on with our lives, just as we did in the past, allowing our short term memories to dissolve in the frothy wake of our own helplessness while the Government will cower and hide tying to find every single reason that there probably is to not take a more aggressive stand on the issue.
I also believe that the Chief Minister of Maharashtra was not at the blast sites instantly, why? I would have expected him to be taking stock of the situation first hand and extending support. Is it because of the fear of undetonated explosives in the vicinity? Of course! What about the safety of all the nameless and faceless multitudes who scrambled back to their homes on crowded public transports last evening not knowing when the next explosion will be triggered? I can only but imagine the fear that would have been instilled in them at that surreal time. The Home Minister has once again praised the resilience of Mumbaikars but would even one Mumbaikar proudly put his head high up in the air and pat the Home Minister or the Chief Minister or for that matter any Minister on his back and say “You are doing a good job Sir”. I cannot even remember when was the last time our Prime Minister’s voice was heard, even if there is pin drop silence I cannot hear the man in Manmohan Singh speak. Can you? Right now, the silence is deafening.
The political system reeks and it is reflective in the intelligence failure. There is little point in Delhi shuffling a pack of worn out, dirty cards and pulling out one Joker after another from the pack. It has been eternity since I have seen an Ace being pulled out and having an expectation of such would mean I am living in utopia. The innocent people who died yesterday have sacrificed their lives, like sacrificial lambs they have been slaughtered again because of the failure of the state machinery. There is no denying the fact there is indeed a lack of both intelligence failure and inadequate law enforcement measures. Post 26/11, for a few months or so, security was beefed up in critical areas across the country. But, with time, the lapse has been quite evident. In the initial days after 26/11 the security at airport terminals too ran high when a platoon of them would adequately man critical locations. I seriously doubt if this is the current situation. As recently as three days back when I flew out of Bangalore, the barracks that manned the main entrance at the airport had but a solitary security personnel chatting on his mobile phone while another was almost dozing. Yes, it is impossible to guard every nook and corner and this is where critical information from intelligence becomes a lifesaver. The United States has done extremely well on this front to ensure that there has been no repeat after 9/11. And again there is strong leadership in the United States that takes control of the nation and officials who do what they are meant to be doing unlike in our case where the Prime Minister has devoted and continues to devote almost all his time and energy on coalition politics.
My heart goes out to Mumbai, which continually faces the brunt of venom spewed by mindless maniacs over and over again. Mumbaikars are expected to be calm, they are expected to be strong and when the Government makes all these expectations on innocent citizens, it is about time we levy some major expectations on our governance as well. It is about time the Government is made accountable for every life that has been lost. No longer is silence a virtue; it is time to speak up. Our lives are not cheap like the way the Governance always makes it out to be. The longer the silence, the fatter Kasab seems to be also getting in jail."
What are IB and RAW doing? Cannot they mingle with the terrorists and kill them or at least know when they are going to strike and where so that the terrorists could be defeated? And what is the use of keeping Afzal Guru and Kasab alive when they have already been sentenced to death? Are we waiting for another Kandhar episode?
Satbir Singh Bedi
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Five Healthy Foods to Eat at your Workstation
We've all heard it times and again that sitting all day long at the desk isn't really good for the health. Sadly, there aren't any feasible alternatives to this mode of working. While you can't just leave your job, you can surely do something which is beneficial for your health. Eating the right kind of fruits can help you overcome the negative effects of sitting like a robot all day.
Here are five power foods you can enjoy while sitting at your desk. They can work wonders for your heart, blood pressure, and can even improve your memory and concentration.
Walnuts
Some new researches have pointed out that walnuts have more (and better quality) antioxidants than almonds, peanuts, pistachios and many other nuts. All nuts have been found to improve lipids and can reduce the risk of heart diseases. Walnuts have also been found to enhance cognitive and motor function in animals with Alzheimer's. Experts recommend seven walnuts a day.
Cup of Green Tea
Polyphenols, one of the major ingredients of green tea, is known to help repair the damaged DNA and stimulate the immune system. Besides, research shows that green tea also helps in reducing the risk of cancers, including skin cancer and prostate cancer.
Popcorn
If there ever was a list of healthy snacks, this is definitely going to be on the list. In fact, many say that popcorn is the healthiest snack available. It is 100 percent whole grain and is big on fiber and antioxidants. If you can air-pop your popcorn and add a minimal quantity of salt, you'd have the best popcorn, say experts. If your office has a microwave, just make sure you bring a pack of low sodium popcorn to work.
Dark Chocolate
This, too, contains those powerful antioxidants called Polyphenols which combat the risk factors (like oxidation of LDL cholesterol) for heart diseases and also inhibit clotting. Studies have also indicated that consuming a small bar of dark chocolate daily can reduce blood pressure in people with mild hypertension. Caffeine, another active ingredient of dark chocolate, can give you that much-required kick and a boost in concentration levels.
Fruits
Not only they help you conquer that “false hunger”, they are also brimming with nutrients which are needed to keep you going all day. You can choose between apples, bananas, mangoes, oranges, papayas etc. but make sure you carry some fruits to the officeSaturday, April 23, 2011
Italian by birth and Roman Catholic by baptism
SONIA GANDHI AND THE HIDDEN TRAIL
I was surprised when the Congress party gave me a Padma Shri – I am the only foreign journalist to ever get it. For, in my forty years of political reporting in India, I have always been a vocal critic of the Nehru dynasty. Someone even called me recently: “ a vitriolic British journalist, who in his old age chose to live back in the land he never approved”.
It started with Operation Blue Star. I was one of the few western correspondents who criticized Indira. As I have said since then numerous times, the attack on the Golden Temple and the atrocities that followed the army operations, produced in all sections of the Sikhs a sense of outrage that is hard today to alleviate. I believed then that the large majority of Hindu India, even if politically hostile to Indira Gandhi, openly identified with – and exulted in – her will to overwhelmingly humble a recalcitrant minority.
As everybody knows, Indira Gandhi helped my fame grow even more, by wanting to imprison me during the Emergency she clamped and finally throwing me out of India for a short while. But the result was that the whole of India tuned in, then and thereafter, to my radio’s broadcasts, ‘The Voice of India’, to hear what they thought was ‘accurate’ coverage of events.
When Rajiv Gandhi came to power, I first believed that he was sincerely trying to change the political system, but he quickly gave-up when the old guard would not budge. I criticized him for his foolish adventure in Sri Lanka, although I felt sorry for him when he was blown to pieces by Dhanu, the Tamil Tiger. It is in Kashmir, though that I fought most viciously against his Govt and subsequent Congress ones for its human right abuses on the Kashmiri Muslims of the Valley. The Congress Governments tried indeed several times to censor me and the army even took prisoner my Kashmiri stringer, whom I had to rescue by the skin of his teeth. I am also proud that I was the first one to point out then, that the Indian Government had at that time no proof of the Pakistani involvement in the freedom movement in Kashmir. Thus I always made it a point to start my broadcasts by proclaiming that « the Indian Government accuses Pakistan of fostering terrorism», or that “elections are being held in Indian-controlled Kashmir”… As I was so popular, all the other foreign journalists used the same parlance to cover Kashmir and they always spoke of the plight of the Muslims, never of the 400.000 Hindus, who after all were chased out of their ancestral land by sheer terror (I also kept mum about it).
As for Sonia Gandhi, I did not mind her, when she was Rajiv Gandhi’s wife, but after his death, I watched with dismay as she started stamping her authority on the Congress, which made me say in a series of broadcasts on the Nehru Dynasty: “It’s sad that the Indian National Congress should be completely dependent on one family; the total surrender of a national party to one person is deplorable. You have to ask the question: what claims does Sonia Gandhi have to justify her candidature for prime-ministership? Running a country is far more complicated than running a company. Apprenticeship is required in any profession — more so in politics”. I heard that Sonia Gandhi was unhappy about this broadcast.
Then, after President Abdul l Kalam called her to the Raj Bhavan and told her what some of us already knew, namely that for a long time, she had kept both her Italian and Indian passports, which disqualified her to become the Prime Minister of India, she nevertheless became the Supreme leader of India behind the scenes. It is then that I exclaimed: “the moribund and leaderless Congress party has lashed onto Sonia Gandhi, who is Italian by birth and Roman Catholic by baptism”. She never forgave me for that. Yet, today I can say without the shadow of a doubt that when history will be written, the period over which she presided, both over the Congress and India, will be seen as an era of darkness, of immense corruption and of a democracy verging towards autocracy, if not disguised dictatorship, in the hands of a single person, a non Indian and a Christian like me. Truth will also come out about her being the main recipient for kickbacks from Bofors to 2G, which she uses to buy votes, as the Wikileaks have just shown.
Finally, I am sometimes flabbergasted at the fact that Indians –Hindus, sorry, as most of this country’s intelligentsia is Hindu – seem to love me so much, considering the fact that in my heydays, I considerably ran down the 850 million Hindus of this country, one billion worldwide. I have repented today: I do profoundly believe that India needs to be able to say with pride, “Yes, our civilization has a Hindu base to it.” The genius of Hinduism, the very reason it has survived so long, is that it does not stand up and fight. It changes and adapts and modernizes and absorbs–that is the scientific and proper way of going about it. I believe that Hinduism may actually prove to be the religion of this millennium, because it can adapt itself to change.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Pained to explain myself time and again on Modi: Hazare - Yahoo! News
Only a few points to ponder for all Congress lovers and Modi bashers.
1. Modi was wrong as a CM since the riots took place during his tenure. To his credite Army was called out the next day to control the situation. If there was any negative role of the government of the day it is being investigated and in most of the cases, Modi version is the right version.
2. Riots took place in Mumbai after Babri masjid issue and mumbai bomb blast. Governments at Centre and State were of Congress. Why the secularists jokers do not point to that part.
3. In Delhi it took Congress more than 3 days to call Army which has a major presence in Delhi.
4. This is the secular country where the secular history is taught by issuing summons to the authorities concerned that Mughal or any muslim king rule should not be shown in negative light. This was the order in West Bengal of 1989 vintage.
5. This is perhaps the only country where to talk about the majority is communal and when rank communal statements are made for the minorities it is called secular. Ram Rajya denoting form of govenment than religion is communal
6. Modi should practice a bit of restrain. Him refraining on a situation will create problems for Congress on how to react.
7. Rahul Gandhi becoming the PM of the country will be a disaster for the nation. He has absolutely zero IQ on important issues. His forays in public is more of a PR exercise. Howcome wherever he stops "suddenly" to meet public, media is always present.
8. MMS is warming the chair for Rahul after having led the most corrupt government in Indian history but "MMS is an honest man and of high integrity"
9. Yet awaiting action on his statement during 1998 or 1999 Lok Sabha elections blaming RSS for Delhi anti-Sikh riots.
10. The Anna Hazare movement is a great thing to have happened and Mallika Sarabhai and psuedo secularists and jokers of her like can say whatever they want but public hai yeh sab jaanti hai.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Hindu Revolution: SONIA GANDHI-GODMOTHER OF ANTI-HINDUS
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Is Dr. Singh guilty? You decide
Is Dr. Singh guilty? You decide
Courtesy: Hindi Milap, Hyderabad, December 20, 2010
Once there lived an old and pious man, renowned for his honesty. One day his neighbor, a rich merchant comes to him with a request. The merchant was leaving on a voyage and wants the old man to safeguard his wealth, until his return. The old man agrees and with God as witness promises to protect and safeguard the merchant’s wealth.
The merchant returns and demands his wealth. The old man calls his son, who hands over a quarter of the merchant’s wealth saying that is all there was. The merchant realizing that he has been cheated approaches the King. The King listens to the merchant’s complaint and summons the old man. The old man comes to the court with his son and handing him over to the King says “your majesty, the merchant is right. My son has confessed to the crime. Please punish him.”
The Betal asks Vikramaditya, “What should be the Kings decision.”
1. DoT with Raja at its helm issues an astounding 120 UAS licenses in a single day, January 10, 2008. A feat unsurpassed in the history of Government anywhere in the world. Suspiciously 85 of these licenses are issued to companies which suppressed facts, disclosed incomplete information and submitted fictitious documents.
2. In issuing these licenses neither the High Powered Telecom Commission, which was expressly set up for this nor the Finance Ministry or the Ministry of Law and Justice are consulted. Vital decisions are taken without being deliberated and discussed at inter ministerial forums.
3. In sharp deviation of business practice, the cut off date for receiving applications gets advanced from Oct 1, 2007 to Sept 25, 2007, violating all canons of fair play and ethics.
4. Real estate companies which till date of application had no interest in Telecom are allotted Licenses and spectrum ahead of genuine applicants. These then go on to reap windfalls from foreign players by selling equity.
Unlike the story, this heist of a precious national asset is carried out in full view of Dr. Manmohan Singh and his cabinet colleagues. Newspapers across the country cry out at this outrage in front page headlines.
The Indian Constitution grants the Prime Minister absolute power in running the country. He is the head of the Government and the Union Cabinet functions at his pleasure. As per the Transaction of Business Rules the Prime Minister has the unrestricted right to demand and get any file, any record from any Ministry. Dr. Man Mohan Singh could have at any time stopped this heist of a National asset, yet he chose to remain silent. The Minister’s failure to exercise his constitutional rights has caused irreparable loss to the Nation.
Dr. Singh did not profit personally from Raja’s shenigans, but his failure to act, to honor the oath of office, to protect and safeguard the nation and its wealth is unforgivable. Like the old man, he has sacked Raja from his ministerial berth, but does his culpability end there.
The people of India had entrusted their faith and the future of the Nation in Dr. Manmohan Singh, believing him to be a man of integrity and honesty, and not to Raja. Does dismissing Raja absolve Dr. Singh or like the old man is he guilty of dereliction of duty and failure to safeguard the Nation and its citizens. Does he deserve punishment?
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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