Patriotic Indians should thank the President of India for having the courage
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yogesh saxena
Jul 3, 2010, 1:35:57 PM7/3/10
to rastraveer_maharaja_suheldev
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.
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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
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.
INTRODUCTION
Annexure 1 : Section 5 of the Indian Citizenship Act with the proviso
emphasizing reciprocity and letters to Shri L.K.Advani from
Dr.Subramanian Swamy on this subject.
Annexure 4 : Cover story “In Maino Country” in Frontline dt. April-
May, 1998 and an article in Rediff.com titled “From waitress to world
leader” dt. May 17, 2004.
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.
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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
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.
INTRODUCTION
Annexure 1 : Section 5 of the Indian Citizenship Act with the proviso
emphasizing reciprocity and letters to Shri L.K.Advani from
Dr.Subramanian Swamy on this subject.
Annexure 4 : Cover story “In Maino Country” in Frontline dt. April-
May, 1998 and an article in Rediff.com titled “From waitress to world
leader” dt. May 17, 2004.
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