Read it...... the idiot Swamys act On Thursday, a metropolitan magistrate in New Delhi summoned Congress party president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi in connection with a land-grabbing case that Swamy filed. Yet this is by no means the first case he has filed against them.In 1999, when Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was insistent that he did not want Swamy in his government, the IIT and Harvard-educated economist decided he was going to take on the National Democratic Alliance.Swamy hosted a tea party at the Ashok hotel in New Delhi, inviting both All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief J Jayalalithaa and Sonia Gandhi. The two worked out a deal, and Jayalalithaa brought down the Vajpayee government. But Gandhi’s attempts at cobbling a government together then failed. Soon after this, Swamy fell out with both the Congress chief and Amma.Since then, Swamy has placed his bets firmly on the right, leading the crusade against the perceived corruption of the Nehru-Gandhis. Some of his allegations have been rather wild: he’s claimed Sonia has tried to have him killed, that she blackmailed Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and that she had connections to the Soviet intelligence agency KGB. He does seem to believe them himself though; some of the wilder allegations have even made their way to into the legal petitions that Swamy has filed against the family.National Herald CaseIn 2011, Swamy filed a case alleging that the Congress party extended a loan by way of another company towards Associated Journals Pvt Limited, a company that had been set up by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1937 that ran several newspapers, including theNational Herald, once one of India’s better newspapers but defunct since 2008 scroll.in/article/668297
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 04:36:41 +0000
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