National Herald case against Sonia, Rahul Gandhi: Political vendetta or sensational expose?
New Delhi: If reports are to be believed, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy was not always anti the Nehru-Gandhi family.
He was sent to prison by Indira Gandhi during the Emergency, but he ended up representing her in border talks with China and later becoming very close to her son, Rajiv.
Today, the leader is only infamous for spewing venom against the family and getting the family behinds bars seems to be only motive, reports scroll.in
A Delhi court on Thursday summoned Congress Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul, party general secretary Oscar Fernandes, former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Motilal Vora and three others, including a private firm, in a criminal case filed by Swamy for alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds in acquiring ownership of the now defunct daily National Herald.
The incident has once again set the scene for a face-off between the Congress and BJP.
Metropolitan magistrate Gomati Manocha said the complainant, Mr Swamy, had successfully established a prima facie case against all the six persons and the private firm under Sections 403, 406 and 420, read with Section 120-B, of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
“Hence, let all the six persons and the private firm be summoned on the next date of hearing,” the magistrate said, while fixing August 7 as the next date of hearing.
Young Indian Ltd was incorporated in 2010 to take over the "debt" of AJL, the publisher of the National Herald.
On June 26, 1975, the nation woke up to Gandhis sending people to jail outside the rule of law. On June 26, 2014 the Gandhis woke up to....?
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) June 27, 2014Swamy has repeatedly said in the media that he is aware the skeletons rattling around their cupboards.
In 1999, the IIT and Harvard-educated economist was shunned by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who refused to take him in his government.
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 once said that Priyanka Gandhi was on alcohol when asked about her election speeches.
Swamy has also attempted to prove in court that Sonia had lied in her election affidavit and her educational qualifications.
He argued that Gandhi hadn’t received a diploma from Cambridge University.
In 2011, Swamy filed an application to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him for permission to prosecute Sonia Gandhi under the Prevention of Corruption Act for a number of issues, including the Bofors scam and the Iraq oil-for-food scandal.
Rajiv Shukla of Congi told TDK that a NDA Minister told him that my complaint would be dismissed. So TDK went abroad. Did Shukla bluff her?
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) June 27, 2014Watch: Subramanian Swamy slamming Sonia and Rahul Gandhi