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My experience with Sonia Gandhi
Ms Harsha Oza
BJP Today
June 16-30, 1999
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Title: My experience with Sonia Gandhi Author: Ms Harsha Oza Publication: BJP Today Date: June 16-30, 1999 Sonia Gandhi, together with her children Rahul and Priyanka, accompanied Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his official visit to Stockholm in January 1988. As per prescribed protocol, I, as the wife of Indian Ambassador, was required to escort and accompany Sonia Gandhi on her visits to art galleries, museums, schools, etc., as per separate programme arranged for her by the Swedish authorities, While Rajiv Gandhi was occupied with his schedule of official meetings and discussions with his counterparts. My odyssey started with the arrival of the VVIP visitors from India on a dark and chilly January night of Stockholm when outside temperature was -20 degrees centigrade and the tarmac of the Stockholm airport was slippery with snow. As per prearranged car plan for the drive from the airport to the hotel, Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson was to accompany Rajiv Gandhi in one car, and, I was supposed to sit with Sonia Gandhi in the next car, as Ingvar Carlsson had no wife. Rahul and Priyanka were to sit in a separate card behind Sonia Gandhi's car. Just as I was about to get into the car after Sonia Gandhi got in, she pulled Rahul and Priyanka in her car and made them to sit next to her. That not only threw the entire car plan into confusion, but also left me stranded on the tarmac in freezing cold as the carcade started moving as soon as the VVIPs got into their cars. Fortunately, my husband, whose car was three-four cars behind Sonia's, saw what had happened, slowed down his car and quickly pulled me in without breaking the flow of the moving carcade. On arrival at the hotel, I thought I would properly introduce myself to Sonia Gandhi and familiarize her with some details of the special programme arranged for her. I was told that the hour was late and she was tired. I was asked to come a bit early next day and meet her before proceeding for the first item on the programme. Accordingly, next day I went to the hotel at least an hour ahead of the schedule of the first item on the programme. I conveyed through her secretary of my arrival and intent to meet her for a few minutes before starting for the programme. I was not called in. Nor was I offered any place to sit and wait. I kept hanging out in the lobby outside her suite. She came out just in time to leave the hotel for the scheduled programme and rushed straight to the elevator surrounded by the SPGS. She went past me, but did not recognize me. I followed her to the elevator and barely managed to squeeze into the crowded elevator jostling with numerous SPGS. We got out of the elevator and got into separate cars; she with Rahul and Priyanka, and I by myself She went around the museum without speaking to me at all. At the end of the visit, we went back to our respective cars and to the hotel and the elevator and she rushed straight to her suite and I was again left in the lobby. Just as there were no 'Hi' or 'Hello' at the start, there were no good-byes at the end of the visit. The same drill was repeated for the afternoon schedule of the programme, except that when we got out of the elevator in the lobby of the hotel, a number of waiting media people and photographers started clicking their cameras and asking questions about her children, their age, schooling, hobbies, etc. Sonia Gandhi did not reply to any of those questions and continued to push ahead towards the car. Finally, an exasperated journalist looked at the 'Bindi' on my forehead and asked about its significance. It was not at all a new or strange, question to me as I had answered it several times to several people in our diplomatic roam-about. So, I quickly answered saying that traditionally it was a symbol of a married woman whose husband was alive but now-a-days, it had become a fashion mark. I saw a frown coming on Sonia's face and a certain degree of impatience with my talking to the reporters. Her reaction was translated into action by a young SPG who shoved and elbowed me away from the journalist in a very rough manner which almost hit and hurt my jaw. I yelled at the SPG fellow and asked him to behave properly with an Ambassador's wife. Sonia Gandhi saw all this but did not say anything to the rude SPG. I felt humiliated and mad. That night I came home in tears and told my husband not to involve me in any of the programme activities of Sonia Gandhi. My husband immediately got in touch with Sharada Prasad, the veteran information Secretary to P.M., and narrated my plight to him. Sharada Prasad personally expressed his regret at my experience and tried to comfort me by saying that Sonia Gandhi was known to be aloof by nature but was not arrogant and did not mean to humiliate anybody or show contempt for others. I was inclined to believe him. But next evening after the official banquet
I saw Sonia Gandhi joking and talking, laughing loudly and jabbering away in Spanish with the wife of Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid. She looked a different Sonia Gandhi altogether. I was then convinced that although she enjoyed trappings of power which went with being Indian Prime Minister’s wife, she could not relate comfortably to Indians, I felt that although she had made India her home, her heart was not in India and that she would be better off being in the land of her birth and the environments of her upbringing.
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My experience with Sonia Gandhi : Ms Harsha Oza
The Holy Roman Catholic Ex Escort from Italy.
My experience with Sonia Gandhi
Ms Harsha Oza
BJP Today
June 16-30, 1999
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Title: My experience with Sonia Gandhi Author: Ms Harsha Oza Publication: BJP Today Date: June 16-30, 1999 Sonia Gandhi, together with her children Rahul and Priyanka, accompanied Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his official visit to Stockholm in January 1988. As per prescribed protocol, I, as the wife of Indian Ambassador, was required to escort and accompany Sonia Gandhi on her visits to art galleries, museums, schools, etc., as per separate programme arranged for her by the Swedish authorities, While Rajiv Gandhi was occupied with his schedule of official meetings and discussions with his counterparts. My odyssey started with the arrival of the VVIP visitors from India on a dark and chilly January night of Stockholm when outside temperature was -20 degrees centigrade and the tarmac of the Stockholm airport was slippery with snow. As per prearranged car plan for the drive from the airport to the hotel, Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson was to accompany Rajiv Gandhi in one car, and, I was supposed to sit with Sonia Gandhi in the next car, as Ingvar Carlsson had no wife. Rahul and Priyanka were to sit in a separate card behind Sonia Gandhi's car. Just as I was about to get into the car after Sonia Gandhi got in, she pulled Rahul and Priyanka in her car and made them to sit next to her. That not only threw the entire car plan into confusion, but also left me stranded on the tarmac in freezing cold as the carcade started moving as soon as the VVIPs got into their cars. Fortunately, my husband, whose car was three-four cars behind Sonia's, saw what had happened, slowed down his car and quickly pulled me in without breaking the flow of the moving carcade. On arrival at the hotel, I thought I would properly introduce myself to Sonia Gandhi and familiarize her with some details of the special programme arranged for her. I was told that the hour was late and she was tired. I was asked to come a bit early next day and meet her before proceeding for the first item on the programme. Accordingly, next day I went to the hotel at least an hour ahead of the schedule of the first item on the programme. I conveyed through her secretary of my arrival and intent to meet her for a few minutes before starting for the programme. I was not called in. Nor was I offered any place to sit and wait. I kept hanging out in the lobby outside her suite. She came out just in time to leave the hotel for the scheduled programme and rushed straight to the elevator surrounded by the SPGS. She went past me, but did not recognize me. I followed her to the elevator and barely managed to squeeze into the crowded elevator jostling with numerous SPGS. We got out of the elevator and got into separate cars; she with Rahul and Priyanka, and I by myself She went around the museum without speaking to me at all. At the end of the visit, we went back to our respective cars and to the hotel and the elevator and she rushed straight to her suite and I was again left in the lobby. Just as there were no 'Hi' or 'Hello' at the start, there were no good-byes at the end of the visit. The same drill was repeated for the afternoon schedule of the programme, except that when we got out of the elevator in the lobby of the hotel, a number of waiting media people and photographers started clicking their cameras and asking questions about her children, their age, schooling, hobbies, etc. Sonia Gandhi did not reply to any of those questions and continued to push ahead towards the car. Finally, an exasperated journalist looked at the 'Bindi' on my forehead and asked about its significance. It was not at all a new or strange, question to me as I had answered it several times to several people in our diplomatic roam-about. So, I quickly answered saying that traditionally it was a symbol of a married woman whose husband was alive but now-a-days, it had become a fashion mark. I saw a frown coming on Sonia's face and a certain degree of impatience with my talking to the reporters. Her reaction was translated into action by a young SPG who shoved and elbowed me away from the journalist in a very rough manner which almost hit and hurt my jaw. I yelled at the SPG fellow and asked him to behave properly with an Ambassador's wife. Sonia Gandhi saw all this but did not say anything to the rude SPG. I felt humiliated and mad. That night I came home in tears and told my husband not to involve me in any of the programme activities of Sonia Gandhi. My husband immediately got in touch with Sharada Prasad, the veteran information Secretary to P.M., and narrated my plight to him. Sharada Prasad personally expressed his regret at my experience and tried to comfort me by saying that Sonia Gandhi was known to be aloof by nature but was not arrogant and did not mean to humiliate anybody or show contempt for others. I was inclined to believe him. But next evening after the official banquet
I saw Sonia Gandhi joking and talking, laughing loudly and jabbering away in Spanish with the wife of Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid. She looked a different Sonia Gandhi altogether. I was then convinced that although she enjoyed trappings of power which went with being Indian Prime Minister’s wife, she could not relate comfortably to Indians, I felt that although she had made India her home, her heart was not in India and that she would be better off being in the land of her birth and the environments of her upbringing.
Madame Sonia Gandhi Life Story (Ex Escort )
I did not create it..Just copied it so that we don’t lose this page..Then people who want to confirm the data check Dr Swamy Jantaparty website and also need to read the case which was filed in USA and later dismissed by the US court
http://www.ekakizunj.com/Sonia_Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi was born as Edvige Antonia Albina Maino on December 9, 1946. A naturalized citizen of India, she has become a very powerful figure in Indian politics. She is the President of Indian National Congress, one of the major political parties of India. She is Italian-born daughter-in-law of the late Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi She is the wife of Rajiv Gandhi who is a former Prime minister of India and also an accused in the Bofors scam
The Indian media rarely publishes articles on Sonia Gandhi. This article is based largely on the exposes by Dr. Subramanian Swamy on websitehttp://janataparty.org/sonia.html
Contents
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- 1 Personal profile
- 2 Educational qualifications
- 3 Prime minister episode
- 4 Falsification of personal details
- 5 Scindia episode
- 6 Swiss bank accounts
- 7 KGB records
- 8 Breach of Indian laws
- 9 Bofors scam and freeing Quattrocchi
- 10 Antique shops in Italy
- 11 Oil licenses to ENI Italy
- 12 References
Personal profile
Father’s Name Late Mr. Stefano Maino
Mother’s Name Mrs. Paola Predebon
Date of Birth 12/9/1946
Birth Place Lusiana, Vicenza, (Italy)
Maritial Status Widow
Date of Marriage 2/25/1968
Spouse Name Late Shri Rajiv Gandhi
No. of Children No.of Sons:1 No.of Daughters:1
State Name Uttar Pradesh
Party Name Indian National Congress
Present Address 10, Janpath,New Delhi – 110 011Tels. (011) 23014161, 23012656
Email id soniagandhi@sansad.nic.in
Educational qualifications
Sonia Gandhi doesn’t have a valid degree. She was a waitress when Rajiv Gandhi met her. Her formal education is (i) Three years course in foreign languages (English & French) completed in 1964 at Istituto Santa Teresa, Turin, Italy (ii) Certificate in English from Lennox Cook School, Cambridge, U.K. completed in 1965
Prime minister episode
Following the unexpected defeat of the NDA, Sonia Gandhi was widely expected to be the next Prime Minister of India. On 16 May, she was unanimously chosen to lead a 15-party coalition government with the support of the left, which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). The President APJ Abdul Kalam reportedly had communicated to Ms. Gandhi on the afternoon of May 17, 2004, that if she insisted on being invited to form the government, he would want first to clarify, on a reference to the Supreme Court, whether in view of this proviso her appointment as PM could be successfully challenged in the court.
In India naturalised citizens are not barred from becoming the Prime minister. But President has correctly acted on a proviso to Section 5 of the Indian Citizenship Act[1955] which requires the Union Home Ministry to lay down conditions to Indian citizenship acquired by foreigners by registration, condition based on the principle of reciprocity . In Ms Gandhi’s case, such of those conditions that apply to Indians on becoming citizens of Italy, would apply to her.
Falsification of personal details
First, her real name is Antonia not Sonia. This was revealed by the Italian Ambassador in New Delhi in a letter dated April 27, 1983 to the Union Home Ministry which letter has not been made public. Antonia is Sonia’s real name as stated in her birth certificate. Second, Sonia was not born in Orbassano as she claims in her bio data submitted to Parliament on becoming MP, but in Luciana as stated in her birth certificate. Third, Sonia Gandhi has not studied beyond High School. But she has falsely claimed in her sworn affidavit filed as a contesting candidate before the Rae Bareli Returning Officer in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, that she qualified and got a diploma in English from the prestigious University of Cambridge, UK.
Earlier, in 1999 in her biographical data given under her signature to the Lok Sabha Secretariat and which was published in Parliament’s Who’s Who, she had made the same false claim. But later she wrote to the Lok Sabha Speaker, after Swamy had pointed it out to him in a written complaint of a Breach of Ethics of the Lok Sabha, that it was a “typing mistake”. Strange but true.
Scindia episode
Madhavrao Scindia and a German by name Stiegler are worth mentioning as other good friends of Sonia. Madhavrao’s friendship continued even after Sonia’s marriage to Rajiv. In later years, Madhavrao had become privately critical of Sonia, and told some close friends about his apprehensions about her. It is a pity that he died in mysterious circumstances in an as yet uninvestigated aircrash of his private plane in the year 2001. Mani Shankar Aiyar and Shiela Dikshit were to be on that flight too, but were asked to stay behind at the last moment.
Swiss bank accounts
A stunning exposure on Sonia Gandhi’s secret billions in Swiss banks came, surprisingly, from Switzerland itself, where the world’s corrupt stash away their booty. In its issue of November 19, 1991, Schweizer Illustrierte, the most popular magazine of Switzerland, did an exposé of over a dozen politicians of the third world, including Rajiv Gandhi, who had stashed away their bribe monies in Swiss banks. Schweizer Illustrierte, not a rag, sells some 2,15,000 copies and has a readership of 9,17,000 — almost a sixth of Swiss adult population. Citing the newly opened KGB records, the magazine reported ‘that Sonia Gandhi the widow of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was controlling secret account with 2.5 billion Swiss Francs (equal to $2.2 billion) in her minor son’s name’. The $2.2 billion account must have existed from before June 1988 when Rahul Gandhi attained majority. y any calculation the present size of the $2.2 billion secret funds of the family in Swiss banks seems huge — anywhere between Rs 43,000 plus to some Rs 84,000 crore!
KGB records
Another expose emanating from the archives of the Russian spy outfit KGB, is far more serious. It says that the Gandhi family has accepted political pay-offs from the KGB — a clear case of treason besides bribe. In her book The State Within a State: The KGB and its Hold on Russia-Past, Present, and Future, Yevgenia Albats, an acclaimed investigative journalist, says: “A letter signed by Victor Chebrikov, who replaced Andropov as the KGB head in 1982 noted: ‘the USSR KGB maintains contact with the son of the Premier Minister Rajiv Gandhi (of India). R Gandhi expresses deep gratitude for the benefits accruing to the Prime Minister’s family from the commercial dealings of the firm he controls in co-operation with the Soviet foreign trade organisations. R Gandhi reports confidentially that a substantial portion of the funds obtained through this channel are used to support the party of R Gandhi’.” (p.223). Albats has also disclosed that, in December 2005, KGB chief Victor Chebrikov had asked for authorisation from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, “to make payments in US dollars to the family members of Rajiv Gandhi, namely Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Ms Paola Maino, mother of Sonia Gandhi.” And even before Albats’ book came out the Russian media had leaked out the details of the pay-offs. Based on the leaks, on July 4, 1992, The Hindu had reported: “the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service admits the possibility that the KGB could have been involved in arranging profitable Soviet contract for the company controlled by Rajiv Gandhi family”.
Breach of Indian laws
As insurance agent
Sonia Gandhi, was acting as an insurance agent of a public sector insurance company[Oriental Fire&Insurance] during tenure of Indira Gandhi, giving the Prime Minister’s official residence as her business address, and using undue influence to get insured the officers of the PMO, while remaining as an Italian citizen[thus violating FERA]. There was an uproar in Parliament, but Mrs. Indira Gandhi had no alternative but to cut her losses. She made a rare admission in a written reply a few days later that it indeed was so, and that it was by mistake, but that Sonia had resigned from her insurance agency
A C Gupta Commission
The Supreme Court Justice A.C. Gupta Commission set up by the Janata Party government in 1977 came out with a voluminous report on the Maruti Company then owned by the Gandhi family, and has listed eight violations of FERA, Companies Act, and Foreigners Registration Act by Sonia Gandhi. She was never prosecuted, but can still be prosecuted because under Indian law, economic crimes are not subject to the statute of limitation.
Enrollment as voter while being an Italian
In January 1980, Indira Gandhi returned as Prime Minister. The first thing Sonia did was to enroll herself as a voter. This was a gross violation of the law, enough to cause cancellation of her visa [since she was admittedly an Italian citizen then]. There was some hullabaloo in the press about it, so the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer got her name deleted in 1982. But in January 1983, she again enrolled herself as a voter even while as a foreigner [she first applied for citizenship in April 1983]
http://janataparty.org/annexures/ann15p61.html
Bofors scam and freeing Quattrocchi
After the Congress under Sonia Gandhi came to power in 2004, Quattrocchi was quickly relieved of all hardships.
- In June 2003, a London branch of the Swiss bank BSI AG was found by the Interpol to have two accounts held by Quattrocchi and his wife Maria, containing Euros 3 million and $1 million. These accounts were then frozen upon the request of the CBI. However, on December 22, 2005, the Indian government position changed rather suddenly. The law minister Hansraj Bhardwaj deputed the additional solicitor general of India, Mr. B. Dutta, to London to specifically request release of these accounts. However, it appears that the law ministry never consulted the investigating agency, CBI in this matter
- Even though On 6 February 2007, Quattrocchi was detained in Argentina on the basis of the Interpol warrant, the CBI let him go free by seemingly deliberate errors on its part.
- In April 2009, The Interpol removed the red-corner notice issued against Ottavio Quattrocchi after a request from the Central Bureau of Investigation
- A major chapter in the 25-year-old Bofors saga was closed with a Tis Hazari court here discharging Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi from the payoffs case after allowing the CBI to withdraw prosecution against him.
Antique shops in Italy
Subramaniam Swamy has alleged that Sonia’s mother, Paola Maino, and sister Anushka Winci owned the shops, Etinica in Rivolta and Ganpaty in Orbassano, the Mainos’ hometown in Italy. The CBI had to seek Interpol’s help after the Italian foreign ministry refused to part with the information, saying the matter should be taken up by the “Indian judicial authority directly with (the) Italian judicial authority”.
Oil licenses to ENI Italy
See ENI scam
After the UPA came back to power in 2004, ENI Italy started exploration of oil along the west coast of India and Andaman islands to name few. The company had links with Quattrochi and is rumored to have Massimo Quattrochi in senior advisory position. ENI is the owner of Snamprogetti which got many contracts during the Rajiv Gandhi regime.
References
- http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1509/15090140.htm
- http://gurumurthy.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=129:zeor-tolerance-secret-billions&catid=63:2011&Itemid=154
- http://www.janataparty.org/sonia.html
- http://india.gov.in/govt/loksabhampbiodata.php?mpcode=130
- http://www.telegraphindia.com/1030307/asp/nation/story_1743449.asp
http://www.ekakizunj.com/Sonia_Gandhi
“ How a waitress became a world leader “ and Some truth from our side
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article425542.ece
May 17, 2004
How a waitress became a world leader
By Glen Owen and Nick Meo
SONIA GANDHI, the daughter of an Italian housebuilder, is likely to become’s India’s new Prime Minister this week — the culmination of a political career that had its beginnings in a Greek restaurant in Cambridge.
Mrs Gandhi was an 18-year-old student at a small language college in Cambridge in 1965, making ends meet by working as a waitress in the Varsity restaurant, when she met a handsome young engineering student.
That first encounter with the future Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, has remained imprinted on her mind as the most romantic moment of her life.
“As our eyes met for the first time, I could feel my heart pounding . . . as far as I was concerned, it was love at first sight,” she wrote later in a rare moment of self-revelation.
“I had a vague idea that India existed somewhere in the world with its snakes, elephants and jungles, but exactly where it was and what it was really all about, I was not sure.”
The man she had met in Cambridge belonged to India’s greatest political dynasty — the son of Indira Gandhi and grandson of Nehru. She, on the other hand, was Sonia Maino, the daughter of a modest Roman Catholic family from Orbassano, near Turin.
But as well as being the source of happy memories, her time in Cambridge has in recent weeks created some political difficulties for Mrs Gandhi.
Her entry in the Indian parliamentary Who’s Who contains the false claim that she was a Cambridge University scholar. The mistake has been repeated frequently in the media. George Fernandes, the former Indian Defence Minister and an arch-opponent, has accused Mrs Gandhi of allowing the confusion to arise.
“Cambridge does not have a diploma course in English,” Mr Fernandes said. He added that the incorrect biography showed that Mrs Gandhi was “a woman who lies about even small things”.
Cambridge has confirmed that it has no record of her attending the university.
The row has echoes of Jeffrey Archer, the disgraced Conservative peer who was slow to correct people who believed that he had gone to the historic Wellington College, Berkshire, rather than the minor independent school with the same name near Taunton, Somerset.
Mrs Gandhi’s supporters dismiss the controversy. They say that the entry in the book was either an editorial error or just a “thoughtless mistake”.
They prefer to emphasise that, unlike most Indian politicians, Mrs Gandi has a “clean reputation” and say that she is being singled out for vitriol because of her foreign origins, Catholic religion and gender.
In 1965 Mrs Gandhi was briefly a student at the Bell School of Languages. It is understood that she studied for the Cambridge diploma, a now defunct six-week course in English literature and language for overseas students.
The young Miss Maino took work babysitting and as a waitress at the Greek restaurant — “the only place in Cambridge that you could have something close to home food” — and found life in the university city quite different from small-town Piedmont.
She was eating at the restaurant one evening when Gandhi — whose place at Trinity College had been achieved through family connections with the Master, Lord Butler of Saffron Walden — slipped into the chair beside her. She later told her family: “I’ve fallen in love with an Indian. He is a sportsman. He’s the blue prince I always dreamt of.”
There were difficulties from both families but three years after they met, Sonia and Rajiv married.
Politics was not meant to be their life — Gandhi was an airline pilot — but everything changed when his mother was murdered and his brother, Sanjay, died in an air crash.
Mrs Gandhi, who had become an Indian citizen in 1983, pleaded with her husband not to enter the dangerous maelstrom of Indian political life. But the weight of the Gandhi family history and sense of responsibility compelled him to take the reins of the Congress party in 1984. He was Prime Minister until 1989.
When Rajiv was killed by a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber 13 years ago Sonia retreated into a life of privacy and seclusion.
Coaxed out of her reclusive lifestyle to save the Congress movement, Mrs Gandhi, 57, now finds herself on the brink of power. She will become the fourth Gandhi to hold power in India and the first European to rule since Lord Mountbatten of Burma.
It has been a long journey from the days when she was a carefree teenager who once shocked India by wearing a miniskirt. Today she regards herself as “completely Indian”.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article425542.ece
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