Dear Sanjay,

I am of the opinion that no single person is responsible for all the muck that
is spread everywhere, like you pointed out in greater details to Sonia Gandhi.
The fate of billions of people in India has repeatedly been thrashed by just a
few handful of people in this country that you can count on figner tips....You
can find them in every walk of life and they control power positions, high
administrative and legislative posts, law and order, police, administration,
media, business and the power brokers..to just name a few. Such groups have made
a deep penetration and work with their hidden agenda to keep people ever away
from the golden future the common men and women of India deserved and had
aspired for such a long time now.

Do we 99 crores of Indians, collectively have no power left, to defeat and
unmask just a 4 to 5 lakh of criminals and thugs, who guised as religious,
political tycoons, swamis and their brokers have illegally encroached and are
holding their illegitimate monarchy over Indian religion, politics, industry,
media and education sector. It is not a crime for a common man on the street to
dream big and think about development and progress of India and no one can stop
a simple honest, poor comon man to become a legislative or a member of
parliament.Common Public has now to bear the burden of governing themselves on
their shoulders. Now, instead of remaining dependent on this select group of
extremists and terrorists, who have miserably failed in their duty to provide
Indian people of their right for a better future and dashed the hopes of a
common man time and again, they have to stand on their own feet.
Be fearless and Courageous- to bring 'dutycracy' instead ' democracy' which has
become a dead corpse now how we conducted ourselves during last 56 years...
BRING DUTYCRACY INSTEAD OF DEMOCRACY

Ashok Sharma



gahjn Sanjay <kozak_vodka@...> wrote:
A fledgling Indian dot com company called Tehelka.com made a big
splash by releasing a tape involving a few BJP and Samata party
functionaries and some retired defense men. It went on to claim that
it had 'exposed' massive corruption within the defense establishment,
including India's Defense Minister George Fernandes. The Indian print
media and television, especially Tehelka.com's sponsor Zee TV,
prominently featured the story, sensationalizing it in the bargain.
The Congress (and the Communists) immediately demanded that the
Vajpayee Government resign on 'moral grounds', citing national
security as the reason. The loudest voice was that of Sonia Gandhi,
who went on to call Vajpayee a gaddar (traitor).

It was absurd in the first place for the Congress and the Communists
to don the mantle of national security, let alone morality. Congress
gave away a large part Kashmir and all of Tibet; the Communists have
openly supported Chinese attacks on India, not to mention the Razakar
atrocities and the Partition. And Sonia Gandhi, following her now
infamous tea party, immobilized the Government long enough to
facilitate the Pakistanis to infiltrate in Kargil. (Pakistan rewarded
her by prominently featuring her anti-Government speeches on Pak TV
during the Kargil War.)
But then events took a bizarre turn. Her former ally Subramanian
Swamy issued a press statement claiming that Sonia Maino (her real
name) and the Maino family had been paid agents of the notorious
Soviet intelligence agency KGB. Swamy of course is not the most
credible person in the world, but this time around it was different.
He referred interested parties to the now open Soviet Archives and
also to a book written by a distinguished Russian journalist. This
led to panic in the Sonia camp. According to some reports she sent an
SOS to her son Rahul to give up his job in London and join her in her
time of distress. (A report is that Rahul who has dropped out of
several colleges has no job, but that is a different story.)

Immediately after the Swamy revelation, the Congress refused to allow
the Parliament to meet. This is strange to say the least. With the
supposedly 'explosive' Tehelka tapes, any opposition party would be
itching for a debate in the Parliament. If anything, it should be the
NDA (including the BJP) that would want to avoid debate- as the
Congress did after the Bofors scandal. But of course, once Parliament
meets, there is nothing to stop the BJP (or anyone else) from raising
questions about the Sonia-KGB connection. This behavior of Congress -
running away from any debate in Parliament - lends substance and
credibility to Swamy's charge.

When a history is written of the last twenty years of Indian
politics, Sonia Gandhi's name is likely to be associated above all
with the Bofors scandal. This could of course be overtaken by
Subramanian Swamy's sensational revelations, if they prove to be
true. But this is only one episode in a long pattern, which had a
single goal - acquisition of money for herself and her Italian
family. Several of her relatives - including her cousin and
Quttrocchi's wife Maria - are wealthy beyond their wildest dreams
thanks to Sonia's Indian connection.
Sonia Gandhi's attachment to money is legendary- understandable in a
person of her socio-economic background. For a person of her
background, the highest aspiration is to escape from her depressing
surroundings, which of course she has done with spectacular success.
This no doubt accounts for her extraordinary attachment to money, as
well as her admiration for get-rich-quick artists like Paul Marcinkus
(more later) and Ottavio Quattrocchi. This is a typically lower
middle class Italian trait. But she also controls vast financial
resources through her trusts and foundations- and now the Congress
party. Some of it at least came from the KGB, if Swamy is to be
believed. Obviously she had to give something in return.
It goes without saying that the trusts and foundations controlled by
Gandhi should be properly audited. As far as the finances are
concerned, since there was no governmental oversight for many years,
we can be reasonably sure that a good part of the money has found its
way into illegal channels where profits are very much higher. This is
invariably the case all over the world. Keeping this possibility in
view, it is worth taking a look at some potential sources of money
and possible subversion.
Years ago, well before Rajiv entered politics, Sonia used to be the
managing director of a company called Maruti Technical Services. This
was illegal since she was still an Italian citizen at the time, but
let that pass. One of her more unconventional enterprises was the
export of coffins to a company called Tribute Caskets in Kansas City,
United States. The vice president (or some high official) of Tribute
was a woman known as Virginia Cover de Rodrigues. She was an unusual
woman, with known connections to several Latin American dictators,
notably Manuel Noriega of Nicaragua. Noriega is of course a notorious
drug lord, now serving a long sentence in a Miami prison. What is
interesting is that the relationship between Gandhi and de Rodrigues
blossomed to the point where de Rodrigues was the beneficiary of
millions of dollars paid through an account bearing the name Svenska.
It was also the account used to channel Bofors kickbacks.
Then there is the strange case of Archbishop Marcinkus, former
president of the Vatican Bank, and now wanted by the police in Italy
and the United States. The Vatican Bank was a hotbed of drug money
laundering operations. Its chief Marcinkus is (or was) 'spiritual
advisor' to Sonia's family. In 1986, when he could not set foot in
Italy or America for fear of arrest, he received red-carpet treatment
in India. He conducted Catholic service at 10 Janpath for Sonia.
Marcinkus was also involved in several Latin American banks
controlled by a Sicilian Mafia lord by name Michel Sindona - known
also as 'the Shark'. Sindona, the Shark, an advisor to the Vatican
and a personal friend of Pope Paul VI, died in an Italian prison,
poisoned by unknown hands. Just before his death, he gave a statement
accusing the Vatican of the crime.
At least one other high Vatican official was involved in Latin
American drug wars. This was Cardinal Posadas-Ocampo of Mexico who
was an agent of the notorious Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar, and
possibly also of Noriega. In May 1993, Posadas-Ocampo - known as
the 'Drug Cardinal' - was assassinated at the Gudalajara airport in
drug-infested Central Mexico. The Cardinal was closely associated
with several Latin American banks controlled by Sonia's friend
Marcinkus and the late Sindona. Mexican Church officials stated that
he was killed because he was trying to arrange safe asylum in Mexico
for his patron Pablo Escobar. Escobar himself was later gunned down
in a battle with the Colombian drug enforcement authorities, showing
that he was badly in need of a safe haven. This, the good Cardinal
was trying to arrange, before he was assassinated.
Then there is the stranger case of the late Agha Hassan Abedi, the
founder of the Pakistani Bank known as BCCI (Bank of Credit and
Commerce International) - another drug money laundering outfit. Where
the Vatican Bank was active in Europe and America, the BCCI
specialized in the Asian drug market. Abedi's reach extended to the
U.S. also. He even had the former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford
as his lobbyist for a fee of nearly $100 million! This was exposed in
U.S. Congressional hearings, and Clifford was disgraced.
What has this got to do with the Gandhis of India? For a start Abedi
happened to be a major donor to the Indira Gandhi Memorial
Foundation, later controlled by Sonia. The first Indira Gandhi Peace
Prize was awarded to Yasser Arafat, with money donated by Abedi! In
addition, several members of the Gandhi trusts have close ties to
Pakistan. A high official of the Nehru Museum and Library is a
Pakistani who claims to be a Marxist. Sonia Gandhi's close associate
and official spokesman Mani Shankar Aiyar has consistently taken pro-
Pakistani positions on most issues - from the Jinnah House in Mumbai
to Kashmir. In one of his columns, he went so far as to suggest that
Kashmir could be handed over to Pakistan with the expectation that
Pakistan would help India get oil from the Central Asian Republics!
(The Pakistani Archives, if opened some day like the Soviet Archives,
should have many interesting secrets to reveal.)
More recently, something else was brought to my attention by a person
who used to work at the Italian Embassy in Delhi. This was when
Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister. In those days, Sonia openly
displayed her contempt for India and Indians, and went to cultural
events at the Embassy consciously dressed in the European style. A
particularly close friend of Rajiv and Sonia was the Cultural Attaché
at the Italian Embassy. This man was later removed by the Italian
Government for using his diplomatic status to smuggle antiques out of
India. His modus operandi was to ship valuable Indian antiques in
diplomatic courier bags. My friend informed me that some of these
smuggled antiques ended up in a curio shop in Orbassano in Italy, run
by Sonia's relatives. (Orbassano, near Turin, is Sonia's native
place.) A few journalists that tried to ask questions at the shop
were unceremoniously thrown out.
Golden goose
It was probably knowledge of this murky past - and the dangers of
placing national security in her hands - that made former Congressmen
Sharad Pawar and Purno Sangma break away from the Sonia group and
form their Nationalist Congress Party. In fact, Sangma explicitly
told Sonia, "We know nothing about you." Sangma and co had probably
hoped that there are enough Congress leaders imbued with the national
spirit to follow them. But they reckoned without the venality and the
cowardice that characterize the breed of sycophants that make up the
Sonia Congress. To them Sonia Gandhi is the goose that lays the
golden egg. When a mere typist in her office like Vincent George
could amass crores, what must it be like for others in her court?
Her fear of exposure helps account for much of her recent behavior,
including her entry into politics. It tells us why this housewife who
had shown no interest in politics, suddenly took over the Congress,
and embarked on an arduous election campaign to keep the BJP away
form office. This was not to save the Congress but to save herself -
especially her past from exposure. The next few weeks and months
should be quite interesting. The real question: can India afford to
place everything including nuclear weapons in the hands of a near
illiterate adventuress trying to save herself from disgrace?




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