This is the election time and am sure you will all wince reading
what is written below in Dr. Swamy’s own words. But please
make an exception this elections. Get this rotten dynasty out of
India.
“Patriotic Indians should thank the then President of India, Bharat
Ratna Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam for having the courage by citing a
legal hitch to dissuade Ms. Sonia Gandhi from staking her claim to
form the Government in May 2004. She therefore did not as
expected (which she later twisted to her favour by citing it as a
sacrifice, when she actually had no choice!) on May 17th become
the Prime Minister of 1 billion plus people of India. It can now be
said that the nation has been saved from a monumental,
devastating, and permanent injury to India’s national interest and
patriotic psyche of Indians. And therefore every effort that can be
made in a democracy should be made to ensure that Ms. Sonia
Gandhi is permanently out of reckoning for any public office. For
those who instinctively understand that, this Note is to explain the
factual basis for this conclusion, and suggest what patriotic
Indians can do now.
My opposition to Ms. Sonia Gandhi is not merely because she is
Italian-born. 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 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 to my knowledge, correctly acted on a
proviso to Section 5 of the Indian Citizenship Act[1955] which
empowers the Union Home Ministry to lay down conditions that
apply to Indian citizenship acquired by foreigners by registration,
which conditions would be based on the principle of reciprocity,
viz., 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 told her 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 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 constitutional
appointment in the Supreme Court just as I had in 2001 when the
Tamil Nadu Governor illegally swore in Ms Jayalalitha as Chief
Minister. In that case, the Supreme Court had after hearing me and
many other institutional luminaries, upheld my contention that
mere majority in the House is insufficient for being sworn in to a
constitutional office. There must be no disqualification as well. Ms.
Jayalalitha had therefore to step down because she was
disqualified by a conviction handed by a trial court in the TANSI
corruption case filed by me as private complaint [she
subsequently was acquitted by the Madras High Court, and hence
became eligible the next 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 in the Sonia matter 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 also a reprieve more because of what national
security risk was averted. To comprehend that risk, we must first
understand who Sonia Gandhi really is and what danger she, her
family and her friends in Italy hold for India’s national security.
Even for an Indian born citizen, we find it difficult to know a
person’s true background, but for an Italian born it is extremely
hard because of the remote access for most people to Italy in
language and familiarity. This note is about that danger that Sonia
represents to the nation, which the people need to know.
Ms. Sonia Gandhi’s background as is publicized by her and her
Congress Party today, is based on three lies to hide the ugly reality
of her life.
First, her real name is Antonia not Sonia. The Italian Ambassador
in New Delhi revealed this in a letter dated April 27, 1983 to the
Union Home Ministry which has not been made public. Antonia is
Sonia’s real name in her birth certificate. Sonia is the name given
to her subsequently by her father, Stefano Maino [now deceased]
following his return from Russia where he had been a prisoner of
war. Stefano had joined the Nazi army as a volunteer. 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, she was not born in Orbassanoas she claims in her bio
data submitted to Parliament on becoming MP, but in Luciana as
stated in her birthcertificate. She perhaps would like to hide the
place of her birthbecause of her father’s connection withthe Nazis
and Mussolini’s Fascists, and her family’s continuing connections
with the Nazi-Fascists underground that is still surviving since
1945 in Italy. 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. She has
falsely claimed in her affidavit filed as a contesting candidate before
the Rae Bareli Returning Officer in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections,
that she qualified and got a diploma in Englishfrom the prestigious
University of Cambridge, UK. 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 adopted home town of Orbassabo]. Poverty those
days 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. Her
father was a mason and mother a share cropper. Sonia thus went
to the town of Cambridge and first learnt some English in a
teaching shop called Lennox School [which has since 1970 been
wound up]. That is all her “education” is-learnt enough English
language to get domestic help jobs. But in Indian society
education is highly valued. Thus, to fool the Indian public, Sonia
Gandhi willfully fibbed 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]. In popular parlance, this is called 420 or 10
“numberi” [not to be confused with 10 Janpath].
These three lies indicate that Ms. Sonia Gandhi has something to
hide, or has a hidden agenda for India. We need to find out more
about her.
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. Rajivwas a student
in the University, but could not cope withthe 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 an ISI functionary.
Obviously, Sonia made (or was given) enough money in this job
to loan Rajiv funds in London, who was obviously living beyond
his allowances [Indira herself expressed anguish to me on this
score in late 1965 when she invited me to a private tea at the
Guest House in Brandeis University]. Rajiv’s letters to Sanjay, who
was also in London then, clearly indicate that he was in financial
debt to Sonia because he requested Sanjay 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 Sonia. It is a pity that
he died in mysterious circumstances in an air crash, which if
investigated thoroughly, without biases, I am sure would
eventually lead to startling revelations.
The circumstance under which Rajiv hastily married Sonia in a
Church in Orbassano is controversial but that was his personal
matter that has no public significance. But what 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 asked him
to.
Such has been the extensive patronage from the beginning
extended to Sonia Gandhi from the Soviets. When a Prime
Minister of India’s son dates a girl in London, the KGB which
valued Indo-Soviet relations, obviously would investigate her and
find out that she was the daughter of Stefano, their old reliable
Italian contact. Thus, Sonia with Rajiv meant deeper access to 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 then existing 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 kickbacks on every Indo,Soviet trade deal and
defence purchases. According to the respected Swiss magazine,
Schweitzer Illustrate [November 1991 issue], Rajiv Gandhi had
about $ 2 billion in numbered Swiss bank accounts,which Sonia
inherited upon his assassination. 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 Soviet Union, she even
gives the file numbers of such intelligence files, which can now be
accessed by any Indian government through a formal request to
the Kremlin. The Russsian Government in 1992 was confronted by
the Albats’ disclosure; they confirmed it through their official
spokesperson to the press [which was published in Hindu in
1992], defending such financial payments as necessary in “Soviet
ideological interest”. When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991,
things changed for Ms. Sonia Gandhi. Her patrons evaporated.
The rump that became Russia was in a financial mess and
disorder. So Ms. Sonia Gandhi became a supporter of another
communist country 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 as the new
Ambassador a person who was the KGB station chief in New Delhi
during the 1970s. In view of Dr. Albats confirmed 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”. The new Indian government which is
defacto Sonia’s, cannot afford to annoy him or even disregard
Russian demands coming from him? They will obviously placate
him so as not to risk exposure. Is this not a major national
security risk and a delicate matter for the nation?
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 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 cancelled Vasundara’s direction to the CBI. The Delhi
High Court issued a direction to the CBIto ascertain from Russia
the truth of my charges. The CBI procrastinated for three years,
and finally told the Court without an FIR registered the Russians
will not entertain any such query. But who stopped the CBI from
registering an FIR? The next hearing of the case is on September
8th.
After Sonia married Rajiv, she went about minting money with
scant regard for Indian laws and treasures. Within a few years the
Mainos went from utter poverty to billionaires. There was no area
that was left out for the rip-off. On November 19, 1974, as fresh
entrant to Parliament, I 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 insure all the officers of the PMO while
remaining an Italian citizen [thus violating FERA]? There was
uproar in Parliament, but Mrs. Indira Gandhi had no alternative but
to cut her losses. She made a rare admission that it was so, and
that it was by mistake, but that Sonia had resigned from her
insurance agent status [after my question]. But Sonia was
incorrigible. Her contempt for Indian law continued to manifest.
The 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 be still prosecuted because under Indian law, economic
crimes 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! Such is her revealed disdain for Indian laws and that is her
mindset even today.
The bottom line observed in Sonia’s mindset is that she can
always run back to Italy if she becomes vulnerable at anytime. In
Peru, President Fujimori who all along claimed to be “born
Peruvian”, faced with a corruption charge fled to Japan with his
loot and reclaimed his Japanese citizenship.
In 1977, when the Janata Party defeated the Congress at the polls,
and formed the government, 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 it. Those close to Rajiv knew
that he was planning set things right about Sonia after the 1991
elections. She did too know of it because he had told her. Ever
wonder why Sonia’s closest advisers are those whom Rajiv
literally hated? Ambika Soni is one such name. Ever wonder why
she 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 to death, when she was not similarly moved for
Satwant Singh who killed Indira Gandhi or recently for Dhanajoy
Chattopadhyaya? The explanation for this special consideration for
the LTTE lies in what Rajiv had told her in 1990.
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 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 unchecked by customs to Rome. Air India and Alitalia were
the carriers. Mr. Arjun Singh first as CM, later as Union Minister in
charge of Culture was her hatchet man. Indian temple sculpture of
gods and goddesses, antiques, pichwai paintings, shatoosh
shawls, coins, and you name it, were transported to Italy to be
first displayed in two shops owned by her sister [i.e., Anuskha
alias Alessandra]. 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 Indian
antiques? The shops were 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
Rahul Gandhi’s National 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 the Cayman Island account. What kind of
people are these Gandhi-Mainos that bite the very hand of Bharat
Mata that fed them and gave them a good life? How can the nation
trust such greedy thieves?
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, which the
Court directed the CBI to hand over to me. But CBI has refused,
and has claimed privilege! 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 to the court stating he made a mistake, he has
been promoted to Additional Solicitor General by the new
government! The Vajpayee-Sonia mutual assistance pact is in full
view. The case now comes up on September 8th.
But the most sinister aspect of Sonia Gandhi’s character is her
connection withterrorists. I am still working on it, but she has had
long connection with the Habash group of Palestinian, and has
funded Palestinian families that lost their kith and kin in a suicide
bombing or hijacking episode. This, Rajiv Gandhi himself told me
and was confirmed to me [the funding] by Yassir Arafat when I
met him in Tunis on October 17, 1990 at the request of Rajiv
Gandhi. Rajiv Gandhi and I were good friends from 1978, but
became very close buddies after V.P. Singh had betrayed him in
1987. We met practically every day, mostly in the early hours
from 1AM to 4AM. It was at my suggestion that he made
Chandrashekhar the PM. And contrary to public impression, he
was not mainly responsible for the fall of Chandrashekhar
government in which I was a Minister.
Besides the Palestinian extremists, the Maino family have had
extensive business dealings with Saddam Hussein, and
surprisingly with the LTTE ["the Tamil Tigers"] since 1984. Sonia’s
mother Paola Predebon Maino, and businessman Ottavio
Quattrocchiwere 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 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. But D.R.
Karthikeyan of the CBI who led the SIT investigation got the
support of Narasimha Rao and cracked the case, and got the LTTE
convicted in the trial court, and which conviction was upheld in
the Supreme Court.
Although on the involvement of Congress Party in the
assassination, DRK soft peddled on a number of leads perhaps
because he did not want political controversy to put roadblocks
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, and that sinister effort
too failed.
Nowadays, Sonia is quite unabashed in having political alliance
with those who praise Rajiv Gandhi’s killers. No Indian widow
would ever do that. My investigations into Sonia’s involvement in
Rajiv’s assassination is therefore still on. 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.
Is it not significant that the political career of Sonia Gandhi
advances concomitantly with a series of assassinations and
apparently accidental deaths? How did Sanjay’s plane nosedive to
a crash and yet the fuselage not explode? There was no fuel! 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 things happened in the dark
ages in Italy. Should we allow it India like dumb cattle?
What Can We 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?
In Indian democracy, only a shocking scandal can unseat a
government other than by losing majority. Today’s priority is 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. It will however not be long before Sonia will give
Manmohan Singh marching orders, and he will march out
meekly. We should not expect him to resist. 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 weapon therefore to dislodge the Maino clan
[including Rahul and Priyanka] is by exposing their Italian
citizenship. In 1992, Sonia revived her citizenship of Italy under
Article 17 of the Italian Citizenship Law [Act 91 of 1992]. Rahul and
Priyankawere born Italian citizens because Sonia was Italian when
she gave birth to them [Italian law based on jure sanguinis].
Hence, they continue be Italians since they never renounced it.
Both have been traveling abroad on Italian passports. They may
now acquire Venezuela passports since Rahul’s girl friend Veronica
is a Venezuelan. That means one more foreign bahu for us
tolerant Indians. The Maino-Gandhis are certainly getting
globalized.
So what can patriotic Indians do? There is an urgent need to
document these facts on notarized paper, for which we need a
network in London, Milan, Hongkong and Venezuela. Those
persuaded by my above stated facts and arguments may join in
and help set up this network.