Sonia Gandhi defends PM in 2G scam
Congress chief and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday came out in strong defence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying that Singh was ?100 per cent overboard? in the 2G scam.
Speaking out for the first time on the 2G Spectrum scam, Gandhi slammed the Opposition for targeting the prime minister for the scam and said it was ?shameful?.
She maintained that Singh was completely ?overboard? as far as the scam was concerned and added that the Congress had won back to power in New Delhi in 2009 under Singh when the Opposition had levied corruption charges against the prime minister.
Attacking the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on its alleged inaction against corruption tainted leaders, Gandhi said the Congress was always swift to act against its leaders with any slur on them.
She cited the examples of former Union ministers Shashi Tharoor and Natwar Singh and former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan against whom the Congress was quick to crack the whip.
?You have seen how we deal with corruption. We take immediate action. We asked Shashi Tharoor to resign. The chief minister of Maharashtra was removed immediately after the US president’s visit,? she said.
?Compare the action taken by the Congress (on corruption) with that by other parties like the BJP. It is for the people to judge, and they will judge us more positively,? Gandhi added, with an apparent reference to BJP?s failure to sack Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa who is facing allegations of involvement in a land scam.
A big shock to every Indians who loves their mother land. Now the congress has to respond to this. This has to viewed from the national security point of view not from political point of view. A neutral enquiry is must and the culprits has to be punished by law and the money has to be recovered. My dear fellow Indians please wake up and do not allow other foriegn ruling\
November 24, 2010.
Dr. Manmohan Singh,
Prime Minister of India,
South Block,
New Delhi.
Dear Prime Minister:
You may by now have realized that the 2G Spectrum scandal is not only bad for the country in the dimension of corruption, but now it emerges that there is a national security dimension too. The RAW, IB, CBI, ED all have enough material which they may have placed before you regarding the dubious aspects of the principal player in this scam.
According to my information two sisters, Anushka and Nadia, of Ms Sonia Gandhi had received sixty percent of the kickbacks in this deal i.e. Rs.18,000 crores each. The frequent travel of Sonia Gandhi and her immediate family to Malaysia, Hongkong, Dubai and parts of Europe including London requires to be probed under the law. What requires your special attention is the mode of the travel, not by commercial airliners, but by jets provided by the corporate sector which itself is illegal under the DGCA Rules. I find that often Ms.Sonia Gandhi and family have traveled to Dubai and then traveled onwards on private jets provided by dubious Arab business interests to Europe. It is not clear on what passport they have traveled. In Dubai they were felicitated by agencies of countries which are hostile to India including that of Pakistan.
You can no more not take a stand when evil is permeating in the country in the form of terrorism, religious conversion and demographic infiltration. The ill-gotten money in billions of dollars equivalent, the money laundering and Participatory Notes have all undermined our national integrity. The time is come for you to take a stand.
I am familiar with the information and data with our intelligent agencies. I also know that you can seek cooperation of other countries especially the United States in pooling information especially from inter Intelligence interaction that take place regularly. I hope therefore you will rise to the need of the hour and take effective steps to set right the sorry state of affairs in the country caused by overtly and covertly resident foreigners. In this connection I would like to meet you at the earliest. My Secretary will be in touch with your Secretariat to fix a time.
Yours sincerely,
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)