Ex-Union minister rakes up Congress chief’s Italian origin
Natwar Singh. (photo: PTI/File)
New Delhi: Former Union Cabinet minister and onetime confidant of the Nehru-Gandhi clan who fell out with them and left the party after being forced out of the UPA-1 government in 2005 over the Volcker report into the Iraqi oil-for-food scam, launched yet another scathing attack on Sonia Gandhi on Thursday.
Raking up her Italian origin, he described her as “ruthless”, and said in a television interview on his book, “No Indian would treat a man who was loyal to the family for 45 years, who had been very close to her... It is just not done in India. There is a part of her which is ruthless.”
Asked if that was Mrs Gandhi’s Italian part, he shot back asking what else could it be: “Some part of it is not Indian.”
Mr Singh also added: “Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi or Rajiv Gandhi would not be like that.” Asked if he was fonder of Rajiv Gandhi than Sonia, he snapped back that this was so because “he did not behave like his wife did”.
In his book, Mr Singh made some startling disclosures on Operation Brasstacks, the IPKF operation in Sri Lanka against the LTTE and the larger diplomatic, strategic and political ramifications it had for the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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