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FACTOID ON SONIA GANDHI
20th May 1999 Raja Simhan T E @thehindu.co.in
hi, thought, i'll share with everybody. raja FACTOID ON SONIA GANDHI ======================= This is some information on prospective PM of India - Sonia Gandhi that every Indian and atleast every India lover must know. 1. Sonia Gandhi is ONLY a high school graduate. Cambridge University has confirmed that they have no Sonia Maino on their alumni list. 2. Her sister, Nadia Manio, reached New Delhi, after Vajpayee govt. fell, to be by her side amidst reports that she might soon become India's prime minister. 3. Should Sonia Gandhi become prime minister, her relatives in Italy would be fully entitled to round-the-clock protection by the Black Cat commandos at the Indian tax-payers's expense. 4. She worked as an au-pair maid in UK while taking classes to learn English in some no name school 5. During the 1971 war, while all Indians stood ready to fight for the Indian cause Sonia Maino and her husband Rajiv Gandhi went on vacation in Italy. 6. In 1977, when Indira Gandhi and Congress lost elections, Sonia Gandhi with her children and husband in tow took refuge of Italian embassy in New Delhi and Indira Gandhi, Sanjay and his Indian wife Maneka had to convince her to return. 7. Sonia married Rajiv in 1968 and was eligible to become Indian citizen 5 years later yet she did NOT become Indian citizen till 1984 (i.e. 16 years after her marriage). This late bloom of Sonia's love for India also was out of political consideration. In 1984, Rajiv, was heir apparent and most likely next prime minister. It would be awkward for a PM to have a foreigner wife. Voila, Sonia became an Indian overnight. 8. She has not given a single interview or offered any ideas on a single issue facing India now. Her only qualification is that she married a Gandhi. No newspaper has taken up the issue, no political party is opposing this, people are falling in line as if this is nothing unusual. Have we forgotten history, it was this Indian passiveness that led to India becoming a British slave. A Nuclear Weapons state, the biggest democracy on planet and a foreigner will walk in to the highest office without having contested an election, without having ever talked to the media on any issue as if it were a piece of cake. Are we going to witness this mockery of Indian State, are we really a bunch of such slaves who, despite freedom of speech will not speak out. Do we need another round of `Civilizing'. Any Basu, any Mulayam, born in the heat and dust of India preferable to the `Senora' as our leader. It is said that former prime minister HD Deve Gowda acted as if he was prime minister of Karnataka while another P.M. I.K. Gujral acted like a foreign minister. Now Congress is busy promoting a former au-pair maid and a house wife for Prime-ministership only on the basis of her last name. Since politicians of a particular type are busy trying to pull a fast one on Indian public.
