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NEHRU DYNASTY: VURN GANDHI'S MUSLIM ROOTS Dr Shahid Qureshi | ||
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The racist mentality of the Indian ruling elite (Gandhis) has made them not only blind but also ignorant with the fact that they might have roots to the very people they are abusing. Varun Gandhi, 29 nephew of Sonia Gandhi, the Italian wife of Rajiv Gandhi and current leader of the Congress party in India. Varun was arrested and charged for anti-Muslim campaign speeches that have catapulted him to the centre of the looming elections. He is running as candidate for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in next parliamentary elections. Perhaps Varun Gandhi should check about his real grandfather, how and why he is a Gandhi? May be a possible DNA test? M.
O. Mathai in his book “Reminiscences of the Nehru age” published in
1978 wrote that, ‘the death of Feroze came as a relief to Nehru and
Indira. The death of Feroze in 1960 before he could consolidate his own
political forces is itself a mystery. Feroze had even planned to
remarry. Those who try to keep tabs on our leaders in spite of all the
suppressions and deliberate misinformation, are aware of the fact that
the second son of Indira (or Mrs. Feroze Khan) known as Sanjay Gandhi
was not the son of Feroze. He was the son of Mohammad Yunus.
Indira
changed her religion, became a Muslim woman, and married Feroze Khan in
a London mosque. Nehru was not happy; Kamala was on deathbed. The news
of this marriage eventually reached Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi
called Nehru and practically ordered him to ask the young-man to change
his name from Khan to Gandhi.
Indira's
second son as originally named Sanjiv. It rhymed with Rajiv, the elder
brother's name. It was changed to Sanjay when he was arrested by the
British police in England and his passport impounded, for having stolen a
car. Krishna Menon was then India's High Commissioner in London. He got
another passport issued with his name changed name to Sanjay.
Incidentally,
Sanjay's marriage with the Sikh girl Menaka (now they call her Maneka
for Indira Gandhi found the name of Lord Indra's court dancer rather
offensive!) took place quite surprisingly in Mohammad Yunus' house in
New Delhi. And the marriage with Menaka who was a model (She had model
for Bombay Dyeing sporting a towel) was not so ordinary either.
Sanjay
was notorious in his own ways and had many a relationships. When Menaka
got pregnant, her father Colonel Anand, threatened Sanjay with dire
consequences if he did not marry her daughter. And that did the trick.
Sanjay married Menaka. It was widely reported in Delhi at the time that
Mohammad Yunus was unhappy at the marriage of Sanjay with Menaka;
apparently he had wanted to get him married with a Muslim girl of his
choice. And it was Mohammad Yunus who cried the most when Sanjay died in
the freak plane accident.
Mohammad
Yunus in his book, 'Persons, Passions & Politics' one discovers
that baby Sanjay had been circumcised following Islamic custom, although
the reason stated was phimosis. It was always believed that Sanjay used
to blackmail Indira Gandhi and due to this she used to turn a blind eye
when Sanjay Gandhi started to run the country as though it were his
personal fiefdom. Was he black mailing her with the secret of who his
real father was? When the news of Sanjay's death reached Indira Gandhi,
the first thing she wanted to know was about the bunch of keys which
Sanjay had with him.”
Nehru
was no less in his own ways. At least one case is very graphically
described by M.O. Mathai in his "Reminiscences of the Nehru Age", page
206. Mathai writes: "In the autumn of 1948 (India became free in 1947
and a great deal of work needed to be done) a young woman from Banaras
arrived in New Delhi as a Sanyasini named Shraddha Mata (an assumed and
not a real name). She was a Sanskrit scholar well versed in the ancient
Indian scriptures and mythology. People, including MPs, thronged to her
to hear her discourses.
At
the very beginning of his book, THE NEHRU DYNASTY, astrologer K.N.Rao
mentions the names of Jawaharlal's father and grandfather. Jawaharlal's
father was Motilal and Motilal's father was one Gangadhar Nehru. And we
all know that Jawaharlal's only daughter was Indira Priyadarshini Nehru;
Kamala Nehru was her mother, who died in Switzerland of tuberculosis.
She was totally against Indira's proposed marriage with Feroze. Now, who
is this Feroze? He was the son of the family grocer. The grocer
supplied wines, etc. to Anand Bhavan, previously known as Ishrat Manzil,
which once belonged to a Muslim lawyer named Mubarak Ali. Motilal Nehru
was earlier an employee of Mubarak Ali.
Rajiv's
father Feroze was Feroze Khan before he married Indira, against Kamala
Nehru's wishes. One frequently hears that Rajiv Gandhi's grandfather was
Pandit Nehru. But then we all know that everyone has two grandfathers,
the paternal, and the maternal grandfathers. In fact, the paternal
grandfather is deemed to be the more important grandfather in most
societies. Why is it that no one here find Rajiv Gandhi's paternal
grandfather's name?
It
appears that the reason is simply this. Rajiv Gandhi's paternal
grandfather was a Muslim gentleman from the Junagadh area of Gujarat -
Nawab Khan who had married a Parsi woman after converting her to Islam.
This is the source where from the myth of Rajiv being a Parsi was
derived.
Indira
was chased out of the Shantiniketan University by Gurudev Rabindranath
himself for misdemeanour; the lonely girl was all by herself, while
father Jawaharlal was busy with politics & women; while Kamla Nehru
was in hospital. Feroze Khan, the grocer's son was then in England and
he was quite sympathetic to Indira.
Indira
changed her religion, became a Muslim woman, and married Feroze Khan in
a London mosque. Nehru was not happy; Kamala was on deathbed. The news
of this marriage eventually reached Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi
called Nehru and practically ordered him to ask the young-man to change
his name from Khan to Gandhi. It had nothing to do with change of
religion, from Islam to Hinduism for instance. It was just a case of a
change of name by an affidavit. And so Feroze Khan became Feroze Gandhi.
The Father of nation didn't mention this game of his in the famous
book, 'My Experiments with Truth'. When Feroze and Indira returned to
India, a mock 'Vedic marriage' was instituted for public consumption.
On
this subject, writes M.O.Mathai (a long time Private Secretary of
Nehru) in his renowned (but now suppressed by the GOI) Reminiscences of
the Nehru Age on page 94, second paragraph: "For some inexplicable
reason, Nehru allowed the marriage to be performed according to Vedic
rites in 1942. An inter-religious and inter-caste marriage under Vedic
rites at that time was not valid in law. To be legal, it had to be a
civil marriage."
It's
a known fact that after Rajiv's birth Indira and Feroze lived
separately, but they were not divorced. Feroze used to harass Nehru
frequently for money and also interfere in Nehru's political activities.
Nehru got fed up and left instructions not to allow him into the Prime
Minister's residence Trimurthi Bhavan.
One
day S.D. Upadhyaya, Nehru's old employee, brought a letter in Hindi
from Shraddha Mata. Nehru gave her an interview in the PM's house. As
she departed, I noticed (Mathai is speaking to her) that she was young,
and beautiful. Meetings with her became rather frequent, mostly after
Nehru finished his work at night. During one of Nehru's visits to
Lucknow, Shraddha Mata turned up there, and Upadhyaya brought a letter
from her as usual. Nehru sent her the reply; and she visited Nehru late
in the night ... Suddenly Shraddha Mata disappeared.
In
November 1949 a convent in Bangalore sent a decent looking person to
Delhi with a bundle of letters. He said that a young woman from northern
India arrived at the convent a few months ago and gave birth to a baby
boy. She refused to divulge her name or give any particulars about
herself. She left the convent as soon as she was well enough to move out
but left the child behind. She however forgot to take with her a small
cloth bundle in which, among other things, several letters in Hindi were
found.
The
Mother Superior, who was a foreigner, had the letters examined, and was
told they were from the Prime Minister. The person who brought the
letters surrendered them..."I (Mathai) made discreet inquiries
repeatedly about the boy but failed to get a clue about his whereabouts.
Convents in such matters are extremely tight-lipped and secretive. Had I
succeeded in locating the boy, I would have adopted him. He must have
grown up as a Catholic Christian blissfully ignorant of who his father
was."
Coming
back to Rajiv Gandhi, we all know now that he changed his so called
Parsi religion to become a Catholic to marry Sania Maino of Turin,
Italy. Rajiv became Roberto. His daughter's name is Bianca and son's
name is Raul. Quite cleverly the same names are presented to the people
of India as Priyanka and Rahul. What is amazing is the extent of our
people's ignorance in such matters.
The
press conference that Rajiv Gandhi gave in London after taking over as
prime minister of India was very informative. In this press conference,
Rajiv boasted that he was NOT a Hindu but a Parsi. Mind you, speaking of
the Parsi religion, he had no Parsi ancestor at all. His grandmother
(father's mother) had turned Muslim after, having abandoned the Parsi
religion to marry Nawab Khan. It is the western press that waged a blitz
of misinformation on behalf of Rajiv.
From
the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post,
the big guns raised Rajiv to heaven. The children's encyclopaedias
recorded that Rajiv was a qualified Mechanical Engineer from the revered
University of Cambridge. The reality is that in all three years of his
tenure at that University Rajiv had not passed a single examination. He
had therefore to leave Cambridge without a certificate.
Sonia
too had the same benevolent treatment. She was stated to be a student
in Cambridge. Such a description is calculated to mislead Indians. She
was a student in Cambridge all right but not of the University of
Cambridge but of one of those fly by night language schools where
foreign students come to learn English. Sonia was working as an 'au
pair' girl in Cambridge and trying to learn English at the same time.
And
surprise of surprises, Rajiv was even cremated as per Vedic rites in
full view of India's public (it was aired live on doordarshan). This is
the Nehru dynasty that quite a few Indians look up at and now an Italian
leads a prestigious national party because of just one qualification -
being married into the Nehru family.
Maneka
Gandhi itself is being accepted by the non-Congress parties not because
she was a former model or an animal lover, but for her links to the
Nehru family. Saying that an Italian should not lead India will amount
to narrow mindedness, but if Sania Maino (Sonia) had served India like
say Mother Teresa or Annie Besant, i.e. in anyway on her own rights,
then all Indians should be proud of her just as how proud we are of Mother Teresa”.
India
is the epicentre of open racism and hidden terrorism on this earth. It
is the only democracy in the world where all its minorities are
suffering be it Dalits, Christians, Sikhs or Muslims. Those who were
great and mighty hid their identities and their children’s identities
like Nehru and Indira.
(Dr Shahid Qureshi is senior award wining investigative journalist and writer on security, foreign policy, and terrorism based in London) The London Post |