This news report from The Hindu archives dates back to 23.06.1993 when Dr.Swamy was an avid secularist. Times have changed since then and Swamy no longer worries about creeping fascism of RSS.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
When Swamy called for probe into 'payoff to Advani'
This news report from The Hindu archives dates back to 23.06.1993 when Dr.Swamy was an avid secularist. Times have changed since then and Swamy no longer worries about creeping fascism of RSS.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Citizens Complain to Press Council on Subramaniam Swamy's Article
August 6, 2011
The Chairman
Press Council of India
New Delhi
Dear Sir,
We would like to bring to your attention an article published in DNA, dated July 16, 2011, by Dr Subramanian Swamy, titled `How to wipe out Islamic Terror’. The piece was published three days after the Mumbai bomb blasts.
We believe that the piece violates the Press Council guidelines on communal issues, issued in 2010, specially :
i) ``News, views or comments relating to communal or religious disputes/clashes shall be published after proper verification of facts and presented with due caution and restraint in a manner which is conducive to the creation of an atmosphere congenial to communal harmony, amity and peace…..writing about the incident in a style which is likely to inflame passions, aggravate the tension, or accentuate the strained relations between the communities/religious groups concerned, or which has a potential to exacerbate the trouble, shall be avoided.
ii) ``Journalists and columnists owe a very special responsibility to their country in promoting communal peace and amity. Their writings are not a mere reflection of their own feelings but help to large extent in moulding the feelings and sentiments of the society at large. It is, therefore, of utmost importance that they use their pen with circumspection and restraint.
iii)``…a heavy responsibility devolves on the author of opinion articles. The author has to ensure that not only are his or her analysis free from any personal preferences, prejudices or notions, but also they are based on verified, accurate and established facts and do not tend to foment disharmony or enmity between castes, communities and races.’’
At a sensitive time like this, Dr Swamy's diatribe can only serve to inflame passions against an entire community. In the wake of angry rejoinders to the article, the editor of DNA wrote that Dr Swamy's views were published in the ``spirit of not denying space to different points of view.'' But a point of view expressed in terms that constitute an offence under IPC Sec 153-A (promoting communal enmity), scarcely deserved space in a responsible newspaper.
We request the Press Council to please examine the matter and take appropriate action.
Signed:
1. Sukla Sen, Peace activist, Mumbai
2. Daniel Mazagaonkar, Sarvodaya activist, Mumbai
3. Ammu Joseph, senior journalist, Bangalore
4. Suhasini Ali, trade union leader, Kanpur
5. Manisha Sethi, Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association, Delhi
6. Dhirendra Sharma Centre for Science Policy
7. Rohini Hensman, researcher & human rights activist, Mumbai
8. Ajay Shaw, poet, mumbai
9. Kamayani Bali Mahabal, human rights activist, mumbai
10. Kaveri Rajaraman, post-doc researcher, IISC, Banglaore
11. Vrijendra, human rights activist, Mumbai,
12. S Seshan, teacher, Mumbai
13. Sumathi Sudhakar Children's Writer and Publisher, Chennai
14. Jyoti Punwani, journalist, Mumbai
15. M A Siraj, journalist, Bangalore
16. Md Ali, journalist, Delhi
17. Saurav Datta, advocate & law lecturer, Mumbai
18. A J Jawad, Advocate, Madras.
19. Zafarullah Khan, Advocate , Chennai
20. Ajit Eapen, human rights activist, Mumbai
21. Dr Zaheer Ahmed Sayeed, chennai
22. Anil Bhatia,former Banker, Mumbai
23. Ghulam Mohiyuddin, secular activist
24. Shahidur Rashid Talukdar USA
25. Shrikumar Poddar- NRISAHI
(Non Resident Indians for Secular and Harmonious India)
26. George Abraham-ditto
27. Mohammad Imran-ditto
28. Armana Ishaque—ditto
29. Md Mansoor Khan Business-hirer, Secunderabad
30. Musab Iqbal, Journalist, New Delhi
Attached:
Letter to the Editor. DNA, Mumbai
Article by Subramanian Swamy
DECLARATION
“I declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that I have placed all the relevant facts before the Council and that no proceedings are pending in any court of law in respect of any matter alleged in the complaint. I will notify the Council forthwith if during the pendency of the inquiry before the Council any matter alleged in the complaint becomes the subject matter of any proceedings in a court of law".
Signed:
1. Sukla Sen, Peace activist, Mumbai
2. Daniel Mazagaonkar, Sarvodaya activist, Mumbai
3. Ammu Joseph, senior journalist, Bangalore
4. Suhasini Ali, trade union leader, Kanpur
5. Manisha Sethi, Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association, Delhi
6. Dhirendra Sharma Centre for Science Policy, Dehradun
7. Rohini Hensman, researcher & human rights activist, Mumbai
8. Ajay Shaw, poet, mumbai
9. Kamayani Bali Mahabal, human rights activist, mumbai
10. Kaveri Rajaraman, post-doc researcher, IISC, Banglaore
11. Vrijendra, human rights activist, Mumbai,
12. S Seshan, teacher, Mumbai
13. Sumathi Sudhakar Children's Writer and Publisher, Chennai
14. Jyoti Punwani, journalist, Mumbai
15. M A Siraj, journalist, Bangalore
16. Md Ali, journalist, Delhi
17. Saurav Datta, advocate & law lecturer, Mumbai
18. A J Jawad, Advocate, Madras.
19. Zafarullah Khan, Advocate , Chennai
20. Ajit Eapen, human rights activist, Mumbai
21. Dr Zaheer Ahmed Sayeed, chennai
22. Anil Bhatia,former Banker, Mumbai
23. Ghulam Mohiyuddin, secular activist
24. Shahidur Rashid Talukdar USA
25. Shrikumar Poddar USA- NRISAHI (Non Resident Indians for Secular
and Harmonious India)
26. George Abraham- NRISAHI
27. Mohammad Imran- NRISAHI
28. Armana Ishaque- NRISAHI
29. Md Mansoor Khan Business-hirer, Secunderabad
30. Musab Iqbal, Journalist, New Delhi
August 6, 2011
Yours Faithfully, Dr.Subramaniyan Swamy
Vandita Mishra, Indian Express: It’s been a time of scams, real and imagined, the onus is firmly on politicians to prove their innocence, and no conspiracy theory appears too far-fetched. For one man who has never hesitated to fire in the dark, it’s a made-to-order season.
In his home-cum-office in the capital’s leafy enclave of Nizamuddin East, Subramanian Swamy, formerly MP and briefly Union minister, president of the virtually defunct Janata Party, most commonly described as a maverick by others and who himself claims the mantle of “true opposition” to the UPA, is enjoying a lip-smacking moment. “I have shown it is not necessary to be in Parliament to be active,” Swamy says. “In fact, in Parliament, there is no activity at all.”
Swamy is entitled to his glee. After all, letters he wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the 2G scam touched off a chain of events severely embarrassing to the ruling UPA, after the Supreme Court asked the prime minister to file a reply.
Those 2G letters famously found their mark but Swamy also stands by all those that didn’t. Of these, there are many.
For instance, Swamy’s most recent letter to the prime minister, dated May 4, which begins, “My usually reliable friends abroad, some of them my former French nationality students at Harvard, informed me that…” and goes on to allege that a member of Sonia Gandhi’s family was in St Tropez in southern France, “in the company of the notorious Quattrocchis, and other family members, discussing defence deals and the sequencing and parcelling of the huge bribes likely to be paid.”
Or, his letter to the PM just before that, dated April 29, in which he cites “enquiries from well-placed sources in your government regarding the decision already taken but not yet formalised” of “the choice of French planes for the Indian Air Force” to allege that “several conversations” between members of the extended Gandhi family and French first lady Carla Bruni played a role.
A selection of the letters Swamy has written over the last year and a half, mostly to the PM, reveals a range of subjects that agitate Swamy apart from the 2G scam. In a letter dated March 31, 2010, he asks the PM not to go ahead with “all these various misconceived and ill thought through dam projects” (on the Ganga), points out he has been recently appointed convener of the legal cell of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha, will be in Hardwar the following month to participate in VHP programmes, and ends with a warning: “Hence an early reply from you would help me cool down the tempers among the sadhus and sanyasis who have gathered in lakhs for the Kumbh mela in Hardwar, and ready to resolve for a nationwide agitation”.
In other letters, he reiterates his opposition to the use of electronic voting machines, alleges corruption in foreign bank accounts and defence deals, and clubs together the “evil” that is “permeating in the country” like “terrorism, religious conversion and demographic infiltration”.
THREAT PERCEPTION
Several letters are devoted to Swamy’s perception of threat to his personal security — from the al-Qaeda and the LTTE, from “Communist and Muslim extremists” and from the Congress.
In a letter to the PM, dated November 22, 2010, Swamy begins: “I write to let you know of information of violence to be carried out against me by the Congress party.” Earlier, a letter to G K Pillai, home secretary, dated May 21, 2010, cites an FIR, still pending, regarding a Congress “attack” on him: “In 2006, on one visit to Rae Bareli and Lucknow, the Congress Party mobs nearly killed me.” And in a letter to the PM, marked “confidential/personal” and dated January 20, 2011, he says he has come to know of a “non-life threatening but disabling physical attack on me while I am going into or coming out of a public meeting in Tamil Nadu”.
On this last lot of letters, the always rampaging Swamy is uncharacteristically defensive: “I received a letter with a Srinagar postmark, signed al-Qaeda, and several letters from the LTTE. I haven’t asked for security, only for the PM to take necessary steps,” he says.
Evidently, Swamy’s spectres are varied and many, and in several of his letters, he makes startling accusations, without proof, against senior ministers in the UPA government, like P Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal. But his real target for a long time has been, unwaveringly, Sonia Gandhi.
Since 1999, when Sonia contested for Parliament for the first time and won, and after which Swamy himself has contested Lok Sabha elections once and lost — he blames his own defeat on the EVM: “in 500 booths out of 1,500 in Madurai, I polled only 0 or 1-2 votes, that’s impossible!” — Swamy has used his letters as relentless sniper fire against Sonia and her family members in India and abroad.
TARGET SONIA
Typically, the allegations are unsubstantiated. In the letters on Sonia and her family, however, Swamy seems to call for a yet greater leap of faith, a more willing suspension of disbelief. His reliance on insinuation and innuendo becomes even more striking.
In the letter dated November 22, 2010, Swamy directly blames a Gandhi for “orchestrating” the “rioting” Congressmen against him in Rae Bareli in 2006 — “the object was clearly murder” — and in the letter dated November 24, 2010, he alleges kickbacks in the 2G spectrum deal. In the same letter, in a paragraph peppered with dark references to “private jets provided by dubious Arab business interests” and felicitations in Dubai “by agencies of countries which are hostile to India including that of Pakistan”, Swamy goes on to insinuate as unlawful the “frequent travel of Sonia Gandhi and her immediate family to Malaysia, Hong Kong, Dubai and parts of Europe including London”.
Whether they are about Sonia or not, Swamy’s letters are densely peopled by those with “baneful influence” and “dubious connections”, those who conduct “nefarious activities” eventually to “effect a soft subversion of the Indian nation”. In fact, Swamy’s world, as revealed by his letters, swarms with unnamed people with ominous intent. A “senior law officer” a Union minister regularly confabulates with, “a telecom and conglomerate business tycoon (who is affected if the licences are cancelled and/or the trial is held fairly)”, an “escort service European girl provided by an Indian company” with which a Union minister “has had a formal fiduciary relation as a paid director”.
But it is the “foreigner” who appears most malevolent. A letter mentions the “sorry state of affairs in the country” caused by “overtly and covertly resident foreigners”; another demands the declaration as an “undesirable alien” of Ottavio Quattrocchi; yet another warns against “foreigners” who come and go out of India on unreported flights.
NO APOLOGIES
Swamy is not defensive on any of these counts — that he offers no proof for his allegations, that he peddles a fear of the “foreigner”, and that he targets Sonia Gandhi.
On the first, he says: “I am writing to the prime minister, I am not holding a press conference. The PM has agencies available to him, they can investigate. My job is to bring things to his notice.” Also, “They say I have no proof. Rubbish! As if on other things, they always have proof.”
On the charge of a touch of xenophobia, he retorts, “This country has suffered due to foreigners for a thousand years. We have to be careful. I am not anti-foreigner. I spend time in the US, the Chinese love me, Israelis are my very good friends. In Musharraf’s time, I was friends with Pakistanis too. But we need to be aware of the national security implications of letting down our guard. We can’t be too hospitable.”
Swamy is least apologetic or bashful when accused of Sonia-bashing. “I suspect her bona fides…” he begins and takes off predictably.
For Swamy, the future is uncomplicated: “I say corruption is the malaise and Hindutva the solution.” But despite his loud allegiance to Hindutva, he points out that he is not welcome in the BJP. Not just because “I am a threat to any established leadership”, but also because “a section of the BJP's leadership believes Sonia must be kept in good humour”.
After the 2G success in particular, people are scared of him, says Swamy. At last count, by his own reckoning, he had about 60 defamation cases filed against him, not counting the 100 cases filed by the AIADMK’s J Jayalalithaa alone, which he calls the “Jayalalithaa bonanza”. But the man who once wrote a newspaper article on the art of fighting a defamation case is no longer afraid of being taken to court.
“People know the court is a platform for me. I have few expenses. My wife who is a lawyer prepares the papers for free.” File a defamation case against him, he dares, “and I will drag you in, make you stand in the witness box, cross examine you, tear you to pieces.”
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/yours-faithfully-subramanian-swamy/791675/0
In his home-cum-office in the capital’s leafy enclave of Nizamuddin East, Subramanian Swamy, formerly MP and briefly Union minister, president of the virtually defunct Janata Party, most commonly described as a maverick by others and who himself claims the mantle of “true opposition” to the UPA, is enjoying a lip-smacking moment. “I have shown it is not necessary to be in Parliament to be active,” Swamy says. “In fact, in Parliament, there is no activity at all.”
Swamy is entitled to his glee. After all, letters he wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the 2G scam touched off a chain of events severely embarrassing to the ruling UPA, after the Supreme Court asked the prime minister to file a reply.
Those 2G letters famously found their mark but Swamy also stands by all those that didn’t. Of these, there are many.
For instance, Swamy’s most recent letter to the prime minister, dated May 4, which begins, “My usually reliable friends abroad, some of them my former French nationality students at Harvard, informed me that…” and goes on to allege that a member of Sonia Gandhi’s family was in St Tropez in southern France, “in the company of the notorious Quattrocchis, and other family members, discussing defence deals and the sequencing and parcelling of the huge bribes likely to be paid.”
Or, his letter to the PM just before that, dated April 29, in which he cites “enquiries from well-placed sources in your government regarding the decision already taken but not yet formalised” of “the choice of French planes for the Indian Air Force” to allege that “several conversations” between members of the extended Gandhi family and French first lady Carla Bruni played a role.
A selection of the letters Swamy has written over the last year and a half, mostly to the PM, reveals a range of subjects that agitate Swamy apart from the 2G scam. In a letter dated March 31, 2010, he asks the PM not to go ahead with “all these various misconceived and ill thought through dam projects” (on the Ganga), points out he has been recently appointed convener of the legal cell of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha, will be in Hardwar the following month to participate in VHP programmes, and ends with a warning: “Hence an early reply from you would help me cool down the tempers among the sadhus and sanyasis who have gathered in lakhs for the Kumbh mela in Hardwar, and ready to resolve for a nationwide agitation”.
In other letters, he reiterates his opposition to the use of electronic voting machines, alleges corruption in foreign bank accounts and defence deals, and clubs together the “evil” that is “permeating in the country” like “terrorism, religious conversion and demographic infiltration”.
THREAT PERCEPTION
Several letters are devoted to Swamy’s perception of threat to his personal security — from the al-Qaeda and the LTTE, from “Communist and Muslim extremists” and from the Congress.
In a letter to the PM, dated November 22, 2010, Swamy begins: “I write to let you know of information of violence to be carried out against me by the Congress party.” Earlier, a letter to G K Pillai, home secretary, dated May 21, 2010, cites an FIR, still pending, regarding a Congress “attack” on him: “In 2006, on one visit to Rae Bareli and Lucknow, the Congress Party mobs nearly killed me.” And in a letter to the PM, marked “confidential/personal” and dated January 20, 2011, he says he has come to know of a “non-life threatening but disabling physical attack on me while I am going into or coming out of a public meeting in Tamil Nadu”.
On this last lot of letters, the always rampaging Swamy is uncharacteristically defensive: “I received a letter with a Srinagar postmark, signed al-Qaeda, and several letters from the LTTE. I haven’t asked for security, only for the PM to take necessary steps,” he says.
Evidently, Swamy’s spectres are varied and many, and in several of his letters, he makes startling accusations, without proof, against senior ministers in the UPA government, like P Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal. But his real target for a long time has been, unwaveringly, Sonia Gandhi.
Since 1999, when Sonia contested for Parliament for the first time and won, and after which Swamy himself has contested Lok Sabha elections once and lost — he blames his own defeat on the EVM: “in 500 booths out of 1,500 in Madurai, I polled only 0 or 1-2 votes, that’s impossible!” — Swamy has used his letters as relentless sniper fire against Sonia and her family members in India and abroad.
TARGET SONIA
Typically, the allegations are unsubstantiated. In the letters on Sonia and her family, however, Swamy seems to call for a yet greater leap of faith, a more willing suspension of disbelief. His reliance on insinuation and innuendo becomes even more striking.
In the letter dated November 22, 2010, Swamy directly blames a Gandhi for “orchestrating” the “rioting” Congressmen against him in Rae Bareli in 2006 — “the object was clearly murder” — and in the letter dated November 24, 2010, he alleges kickbacks in the 2G spectrum deal. In the same letter, in a paragraph peppered with dark references to “private jets provided by dubious Arab business interests” and felicitations in Dubai “by agencies of countries which are hostile to India including that of Pakistan”, Swamy goes on to insinuate as unlawful the “frequent travel of Sonia Gandhi and her immediate family to Malaysia, Hong Kong, Dubai and parts of Europe including London”.
Whether they are about Sonia or not, Swamy’s letters are densely peopled by those with “baneful influence” and “dubious connections”, those who conduct “nefarious activities” eventually to “effect a soft subversion of the Indian nation”. In fact, Swamy’s world, as revealed by his letters, swarms with unnamed people with ominous intent. A “senior law officer” a Union minister regularly confabulates with, “a telecom and conglomerate business tycoon (who is affected if the licences are cancelled and/or the trial is held fairly)”, an “escort service European girl provided by an Indian company” with which a Union minister “has had a formal fiduciary relation as a paid director”.
But it is the “foreigner” who appears most malevolent. A letter mentions the “sorry state of affairs in the country” caused by “overtly and covertly resident foreigners”; another demands the declaration as an “undesirable alien” of Ottavio Quattrocchi; yet another warns against “foreigners” who come and go out of India on unreported flights.
NO APOLOGIES
Swamy is not defensive on any of these counts — that he offers no proof for his allegations, that he peddles a fear of the “foreigner”, and that he targets Sonia Gandhi.
On the first, he says: “I am writing to the prime minister, I am not holding a press conference. The PM has agencies available to him, they can investigate. My job is to bring things to his notice.” Also, “They say I have no proof. Rubbish! As if on other things, they always have proof.”
On the charge of a touch of xenophobia, he retorts, “This country has suffered due to foreigners for a thousand years. We have to be careful. I am not anti-foreigner. I spend time in the US, the Chinese love me, Israelis are my very good friends. In Musharraf’s time, I was friends with Pakistanis too. But we need to be aware of the national security implications of letting down our guard. We can’t be too hospitable.”
Swamy is least apologetic or bashful when accused of Sonia-bashing. “I suspect her bona fides…” he begins and takes off predictably.
For Swamy, the future is uncomplicated: “I say corruption is the malaise and Hindutva the solution.” But despite his loud allegiance to Hindutva, he points out that he is not welcome in the BJP. Not just because “I am a threat to any established leadership”, but also because “a section of the BJP's leadership believes Sonia must be kept in good humour”.
After the 2G success in particular, people are scared of him, says Swamy. At last count, by his own reckoning, he had about 60 defamation cases filed against him, not counting the 100 cases filed by the AIADMK’s J Jayalalithaa alone, which he calls the “Jayalalithaa bonanza”. But the man who once wrote a newspaper article on the art of fighting a defamation case is no longer afraid of being taken to court.
“People know the court is a platform for me. I have few expenses. My wife who is a lawyer prepares the papers for free.” File a defamation case against him, he dares, “and I will drag you in, make you stand in the witness box, cross examine you, tear you to pieces.”
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/yours-faithfully-subramanian-swamy/791675/0
Monday, August 29, 2011
Swamy prevented Sonia from becoming the PM of India?
Dr. Swamy never stops flattering himself that he prevailed over former President APJ Abdul Kalam and thereby prevented Sonia from becoming the PM of India. He claims to have descended just in the right time to educate kalam on some provision in Indian Citizenship Act.
Last time I heard, constitutional pundits were still searching for such invisible reciprocity provision in Sec 5 of Citizenship,1955 ( along with all subsequent amendments) http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/ic_act55.pdf
But we were never talking about status of Sonia's Citizenship by Registration or Naturalization but eligibility of a such a citizen to occupy the post of PM.Even if someone finds such reciprocity clause between the lines in the law, Swamy's storyline will stick only if one can prove that Italy too has such a provision.
All this is immaterial. Press Records of Rashtrapati Bhavan prove that the then president APJ Abdul Kalam never raised the issue of Citizenship with Sonia.
Press releases dating back to 2004 are unavailable on presidentofIndia's website. They were removed after 2007 Presidential elections.But one can always get a hard copy from President's Secretariat).Press information Bureau's link : http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=1730 is as credible as original source.
After demitting office, APJ Abdul Kalam himself made it clear in an interview.P M Nair, then secretary to the President in his book “The Kalam Effect: My years with the President” further confirms it
One wonders, how Swamy went around telling the same cock and bull story.
Last time I heard, constitutional pundits were still searching for such invisible reciprocity provision in Sec 5 of Citizenship,1955 ( along with all subsequent amendments) http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/ic_
But we were never talking about status of Sonia's Citizenship by Registration or Naturalization but eligibility of a such a citizen to occupy the post of PM.Even if someone finds such reciprocity clause between the lines in the law, Swamy's storyline will stick only if one can prove that Italy too has such a provision.
All this is immaterial. Press Records of Rashtrapati Bhavan prove that the then president APJ Abdul Kalam never raised the issue of Citizenship with Sonia.
"CITIZENSHIP ISSUE NOT DISCUSSED WITH SMT. SONIA GANDHI
19-05-2004 : Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi
PRESS RELEASE
It has been reported in a section of the press that the President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam had discussed the citizenship issue with Smt. Sonia Gandhi when she met him yesterday at Rashtrapati Bhavan. This is contrary to facts. It did not figure in the discussions at all."
Press releases dating back to 2004 are unavailable on presidentofIndia's website. They were removed after 2007 Presidential elections.But one can always get a hard copy from President's Secretariat).Press information Bureau's link : http://pib.nic.in/newsite/
After demitting office, APJ Abdul Kalam himself made it clear in an interview.P M Nair, then secretary to the President in his book “The Kalam Effect: My years with the President” further confirms it
One wonders, how Swamy went around telling the same cock and bull story.
Coalition Against Bigotry in Harvard's Petition
We the undersigned members of the Harvard community are outraged to learn that Subramanian Swamy, an Indian politician whose recent editorial shows him to be a bigoted promoter of communalism in India, also teaches economics at Harvard University Summer School. We demand that the Harvard administration repudiate Swamy's remarks and terminate his association with the University.
Swamy proposes a truly shocking set of "strategies" for "deter[ring] terrorism" in an op-ed appearing in the July 16th edition of the Daily News & Analysis, an Indian newspaper. These include "declar[ing] India a Hindu Rashtra in which non-Hindus can vote only if they proudly acknowledge that their ancestors were Hindus"; "[r]emov[ing] the masjid in Kashi Vishwanath temple and the 300 masjids at other temple sites"; "[e]nact[ing] a national law prohibiting conversion from Hinduism to any other religion"; and "[p]ropagat[ing] the development of a Hindu mindset."
Writing in the wake of the July 13, 2011, bombings in Mumbai, Swamy has exploited this event not only to promote a vision of Indian society based on Hindu supremacy, but to disparage and cast suspicion on the entire Muslim community in India. "Muslims of India," he states, "are being programmed by a slow reactive process to become radical and thus slide into suicide against Hindus."
While free expression and the vigorous contest of ideas are essential in any academic community, so, too, are respect and tolerance for human difference. By advocating measures that would grossly violate freedom of religion and the unqualified right to vote for different religious groups, and by aggressively vilifying an entire religious community, Swamy breaches the most basic standards of respect and tolerance.
More specifically, Swamy's comments cast doubt on his ability to treat a diverse community of students with fairness and respect. The highly insulting and stereotypical nature of his comments suggest that he cannot be trusted to regard Muslims -- and no doubt other groups--with anything but a jaundiced eye.
Swamy's views are deeply offensive; they are also dangerous. The measures he proposes--far out of step with the everyday secularism and tolerance embodied by most Indians--would threaten to tear apart the basic fabric of India's pluralist democracy. And, as Indians know too well, the brand of rhetoric that he employs has fueled violence against religious minorities in the past.
In short, we the undersigned condemn Subramanian Swamy and the views that he has expressed in the strongest terms. Someone who voices such ideas while continuing to teach at Harvard seriously compromises the University's integrity, undermining its commitment to diversity and tolerance.
Subramanian Swamy can have no place in the Harvard community.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~slam/petitions/swamy.php
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Know your Subramanian Swamy
I have to say this at the very beginning. I’d definitely prefer Manmohan Singh to Advani and for that matter UPA to NDA. I voted for Lok Satta party in 2009 AP assembly polls which I found to be a better alternative. I have nothing to do with politics and I have every right to hold my views. I do believe that Sangh parivar’s ideology and hate agenda poses a greater threat to India than many other external factors. That apart, I have little sympathy for members of Rajiv Gandhi’s family (Dr.Subramaniya Swamy himself claims that he was a good friend and well wisher of Rajiv who in turn wanted him to be the Prime Minister of India!). I am stating all this because I had the experience of getting branded as a sycophant by intolerant fanboys of BJP. My knowledge is limited and I don’t have much time to do any research to disprove Subramaniya Swamy’s theories. The attempt here is not to shoot the messenger as it might look but understanding the motives and credentials of a person whose words are being given undeserving importance. I am really sick of spam mails asking people to 'know so and so person' as if they are morons who can't make up their own mind. Don't insult the intellect of others that way. Who knows one day you may have to rethink about your own intellect.
It is one thing to fight political opponents through parliamentary debates and electoral politics but the online propaganda war unleashed by a section of Indian polity to vilify individuals, who ever it is, is a threat to our democratic system. I am amazed by the lack of reasoning on the part of so called educated class which goes blindly by what it is told in blogs and webpages. Everyone has his/her perception but facts have to be sacrosanct. Let them rethink once if everything told was substantiated beyond all doubts. Why don’t we see the same propaganda articles in mainstream media( not even in ‘The Pioneer’ whose editor-in-chief is a BJP Rajya Sabha MP?). Why are questionable means (usage of anonymous and unaccountable internet media) adopted for propagation of allegations if the real intent is to put up facts in public sphere? Who is stopping them from approaching the judiciary and mainstream media?Who is stopping them from standing up in open to prove their claims?
Dr. Subramaniya Swamy is not new to Indian politics. Current generation knows him through electronic media as someone who fought against irregularities in 2G spectrum allocation. But even without him appropriating the issue, the centre for public interest litigation comprising apolitical individuals filed a similar petition in Supreme Court . Otherwise nothing much is known about Swamy. He loves to remain in limelight through his conspiracy theories. He puts scorn and venom on anyone who comes in his way. He is currently the sole owner of Janata party, a symbol of Jaya Prakash Narayan’s movement against Indira Gandhi during emergency days. I don’t know how he appropriated it to himself after Janata parivar fell apart. I was told by a retired faculty member at IIT Delhi about politicking in the campus when Dr.Swamy was a faculty member in the Humanities department. He was subsequently made to leave the institute
I am not giving much importance to Ram jethmalani's words as both he and Swamy were involved in a squabble over a defamation case but one can't ignore the writings of R. Venkataraman, former president of India and who was known for his integrity.I don’t know Swamy in person but just one scan of his writings made me believe in what is said about him
Swamy was a failure in politics (even after showing up his presence on all sides of political spectrum at some or other point of time) and now he is looking for new platforms- "Hindutva" and lately "Fight against corruption" (in case you don't know, Swamy was a greatest champion of secularism and a bitter critic of sangh parivar till late 1990s. Here is one article of him published in Frontline “The RSS game plan: Creeping fascism of RSS” Source: http://www.hindu.com/fline/fl1702/17020950.htm ) Around that time he enacted a drama in the name of 'secular patriotic front' Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19980430/12050634.html
As far as his allegations against Congress President are concerned, it appears that he harbors some grudge against her for coming in the way of realizing his long awaited political ambitions (when AIADMK withdrew its support to NDA government in 1999). Until that moment he was seeking her support and praising Rajiv's family. To tell you more, he harbours a similar grudge against former Prime Minister Vajpayee for many reasons and differences dating back to Janata government. Swamy was Jayalaitha’s choice for Finance minister in NDA government of 1998. When BJP refused to accept him, he did everything to dislodge the government. He played a key role in withdrawal of AIADMK’s support to NDA government (And if you don’t know, ask any middle aged person in Tamil Nadu about his anti-corruption crusade against Jayalalitha in the first half of 1990s. During those days, Chandralekha,one former IAS officer resigned to her job and joined him in the grand fight against Jayalalitha. She continues to be the Vice-President of Janata Party.( Swamy buried his differences with Jayalalitha in no time when he understood the winds of change in Delhi towards coalition politics).
Source: http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?207350
After the failure of this experiment, he faced parliamentary elections with lot of resentment (Till date he managed to win direct elections once or twice). That time Swamy had to say this:
Those who see a messiah/anti-corruption crusader in him(especially the die hard fans of BJP) would do well to read and digest the following. It is entirely up to them if they want to consume garbage in a selective manner. I have no issues
Post 1999(after betrayal of Swamy's political ambitions) Sonia has become No 1 enemy. There is a perceptible trend in whatever he alleges. Other than heaping scorn and venom upon enemies he indulges in lot of self praise as you must have seen by now
Swamy in Rediff.com's interview (April 2002)
Press release Dated 13-11-2003
Press Release Dt 10.1.2004
Press Release Dt.15.3.2004
Dt.15.06.2004
Press release
From Swamy's article on Charan Singh
Source: http://www.janataparty.org/articledetail.asp?rowid=12
More of Swamy's claims
Here is one news report dating back to 23rd June 1993 http://www.indiarightsonline.com/Sabrang/relipolcom2.nsf/5e7647d942f529c9e5256c3100376e2e/b9d84c5ce0f2266765256af80036545a/$FILE/bac54751.pdf
wherein Swamy says “ I have satisfied myself with the proof that exists” on payoff to Advani and alleges "South African Indians supplied 7 kgs of gold for the Karseva at Ayodhya"
Very recently, in a newspaper article he proposed ways to wipe out Islamic terrorism and his suggested methods include removal of masjid at Kashi Vishwanath temple along with 300 other mosques in India. Dr.Subramaniya Swamy, as I understand wants to be a maverick politician who also loves to go with the trend and remain in hot news
There is lot more to be discovered about Swamy if one has time and patience to scan old newspapers. Let not his sophisticated language and trumpeted academic credentials deceive you. I’ll conclude saying this. Know your Subramaniya Swamy first before propagating his claims. I am not asking anyone to push his theories under carpet but also learn to question him or verify his sources of information. Let him approach right forums to prove his claims instead of using questionable means to vilify opponents.
With no one to question,such propaganda material gets multiplied all over the net and finally one day someone attributes credibility to it just because it's widespread.I fear a lot many things said by lot many other people are in propagation through unaccountable internet media and it doesn't augur well for India. There are many conspiracy theories like Tajmahal was Tejomahalaya etc., which have acceptance among many netizens. How easy it has become to exploit emotions and sway opinions?
Dr. Subramaniya Swamy is not new to Indian politics. Current generation knows him through electronic media as someone who fought against irregularities in 2G spectrum allocation. But even without him appropriating the issue, the centre for public interest litigation comprising apolitical individuals filed a similar petition in Supreme Court . Otherwise nothing much is known about Swamy. He loves to remain in limelight through his conspiracy theories. He puts scorn and venom on anyone who comes in his way. He is currently the sole owner of Janata party, a symbol of Jaya Prakash Narayan’s movement against Indira Gandhi during emergency days. I don’t know how he appropriated it to himself after Janata parivar fell apart. I was told by a retired faculty member at IIT Delhi about politicking in the campus when Dr.Swamy was a faculty member in the Humanities department. He was subsequently made to leave the institute
- Read what Ram Jethmalani had to say about Dr Subramaniya Swamy, "The diseased insect"
This country has suffered many a misfortune but none greater than the vice and persistence in our public life of a despicable character called Subramanian Swamy. His has been a life of character assassination, malicious mendacity and sordid blackmail of any one who happens to cross his path. No body has been able to deflect him from his criminal course of conduct because few have the inclination to take on this vicious viper and expose him for what he really is.More: http://www.indianexpress.com/Storyold/28582/
Most good men have no stomach for controversies and fights at the Swamy level. To make mean attacks on those who in good faith have helped him in life is his speciality. And behind all his evil is one fostering frustration that he has not become the Prime Minister of India!
True, democracy must take in its stride even dangerous megalomaniacs like him, but equally the people must know what they are dealing with. This diseased insect cannot be disinfected. He has to be crushed and carefully incinerated. It is not enough to throw him into the gutter.That is his natural habitat. There he will grow and flourish.
The witnesses to prove this damning thesis are legion. This virulent viper's targets have been many. Scores who have silently borne his impertinent insults can be cited. For lack of space only a few instances would suffice. Let us take the venerable R. Venkataraman, a politician who adorned the Rashtrapati Bhawan and is now a universally respected elder statesman. In his book, My Presidential Years, he records:
"Early in October, a file recommending the appointment of Roxana Subramanian Swamy as Additional Judge of the Delhi High Court came to me with the recommendation of all the constitutional authorities. Mrs Swamy had completed 10 years and four months at the bar, just a few months more than the minimum qualification fixed under the Constitution. Her income was stated to be Rs 20,000 per annum during 1989 and 1990. There were a number of women lawyers in the Delhi High Court with greater standing and with far greater income from the profession. To overlook all of them and appoint a person with Mrs Swamy's standing and practice would have been an affront to the bar. I therefore returned the file to the Prime Minister for reconsideration. Dr Subramanian Swamy mounted a tirade against me in the Central Hall of Parliament and outside which I ignored. I had never been either pressured or cajoled to act against my conviction.''
I am not giving much importance to Ram jethmalani's words as both he and Swamy were involved in a squabble over a defamation case but one can't ignore the writings of R. Venkataraman, former president of India and who was known for his integrity.I don’t know Swamy in person but just one scan of his writings made me believe in what is said about him
Swamy was a failure in politics (even after showing up his presence on all sides of political spectrum at some or other point of time) and now he is looking for new platforms- "Hindutva" and lately "Fight against corruption" (in case you don't know, Swamy was a greatest champion of secularism and a bitter critic of sangh parivar till late 1990s. Here is one article of him published in Frontline “The RSS game plan: Creeping fascism of RSS” Source: http://www.hindu.com/fline/fl1702/17020950.htm ) Around that time he enacted a drama in the name of 'secular patriotic front' Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19980430/12050634.html
As far as his allegations against Congress President are concerned, it appears that he harbors some grudge against her for coming in the way of realizing his long awaited political ambitions (when AIADMK withdrew its support to NDA government in 1999). Until that moment he was seeking her support and praising Rajiv's family. To tell you more, he harbours a similar grudge against former Prime Minister Vajpayee for many reasons and differences dating back to Janata government. Swamy was Jayalaitha’s choice for Finance minister in NDA government of 1998. When BJP refused to accept him, he did everything to dislodge the government. He played a key role in withdrawal of AIADMK’s support to NDA government (And if you don’t know, ask any middle aged person in Tamil Nadu about his anti-corruption crusade against Jayalalitha in the first half of 1990s. During those days, Chandralekha,one former IAS officer resigned to her job and joined him in the grand fight against Jayalalitha. She continues to be the Vice-President of Janata Party.( Swamy buried his differences with Jayalalitha in no time when he understood the winds of change in Delhi towards coalition politics).
- Outlook Interview with Subramaniya swamy dating April,1999:
For Dr Subramanian Swamy, all it took was a tea-party to trigger off a political crisis that ultimately led to the Vajpayee government's ouster. The maverick-politician knew that unleashing Amma in Delhi would create unrest. The gamble paid off. An hour after Vajpayee was voted out of office, Swamy walked in triumphantly to the Hotel Maurya, Jayalalitha's temporary abode, to work out the next phase after Operation Topple. Excerpts from the interview:
Q.What does this confidence vote mean? After all, the coalition was defeated only by a single vote.
A.That is not the point. After spending crores of rupees to buy out MPs and blatant horse-trading, the BJP government has failed. It is indicative of the sharp erosion in their vote bank. They were confident of pulling through in greater numbers but events proved otherwise.
Q.Do you take credit for being solely responsible for activating this crisis?
A.It was a gigantic managerial exercise to vote out this government. Sure, I was a catalyst. It goes to the credit of Jayalalitha that she staked her entire political career by pulling out of this unnatural alliance.
Q.What would have happened if the BJP coalition had won?
A.Both the BJP government at the Centre and the DMK in Tamil Nadu would have been terribly vindictive towards Jayalalitha. But she took the risk. It was a calculated one and she won.
Q.Were there others who helped in this exercise?
A.One must give credit to Sonia Gandhi's hand of support and Mayawati's late but correct decision to vote against the confidence motion.
Q.What happens now? Will it be a stable outfit or are we looking at yet another shaky coalition?
A.The President is bound by precedent to call the largest party, which is the Congress. It might take a week for the next government to be sworn as there are things which need to be worked out. No, this time it will be a dynamic and secular government which will take it to the 21st century.
Q.Where will Jayalalitha or you figure in the new dispensation?
A.That is too early to say (smiles). You will know soon.
Source: http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?207350
After the failure of this experiment, he faced parliamentary elections with lot of resentment (Till date he managed to win direct elections once or twice). That time Swamy had to say this:
"Jayalalitha owes her political existence to me. In '91, I was instrumental in toppling the Karunanidhi government and paving the way for her to become chief minister. But she ditched me. Again, in '98, by aligning with her, I helped her regain moral authority. People were willing to forgive her because I, her principal foe till then, joined hands with her. When she was desperate for an alliance with the Congress, I organised the tea party and brought her and Sonia Gandhi closer. Today she's dumped me and will pay a huge political price for this."Source: http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?208104
Those who see a messiah/anti-corruption crusader in him(especially the die hard fans of BJP) would do well to read and digest the following. It is entirely up to them if they want to consume garbage in a selective manner. I have no issues
- Why Vajpayee Hates Swamy
IT is common knowledge that there is no love lost between Atal Behari Vajpayee and Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy, whom Jayalalitha desperately wanted as finance minister of a BJP-led government. But few are aware of Swamy's autobiography serialised in the Tamil weekly Kumudham, where he has poured venom and vitriol on Vajpayee and cast aspersions on his private life. The serial titled Swami and Friends—a Few Enemies Too was published in early 1997.Source: http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?205236
Here are some excerpts from the magazine which explain why Vajpayee "cannot stand the sight of Swamy"
Issue dated February 20, 1997
WHEN the Morarji Desai-led Janata government came to power by defeating the Congress, many expected that I would get a cabinet berth for my outstanding resistance to the Emergency. But, Atal Behari Vajpayee interfered and spoiled it. Just to get out of the prison on parole, Vajpayee had given a letter of apology to Indira Gandhi and had created a bad precedence. But he had the 91 MPs of the Jan Sangh under his control. He could not stomach the fame I got as an 'Emergency hero'. Further, he was desperately trying to cover the humiliation of his all-out surrender before Indira. He tricked Morarji Desai into giving me just a minister of state...
"As the then external affairs minister, Vajpayee tried his best to prevent me from visiting China and he indeed succeeded for a year. However, in 1978, Morarji paved the way for my China visit. Morarji accepted only my ideas about China and totally rejected Vajpayee's readings. Vajpayee's only concern was to please the Soviet Union. His continuation as the external affairs minister was based on his having 91 Jan Sangh MPs under his thumb and only because of this numerical strength he was not removed from the foreign office...
"Though Charan Singh got a bad name for pulling down the Morarji government, the real culprits are Vajpayee and Ramakrishna Hegde. They deliberately engineered a duel between Charan Singh and Morarji and in the process pushed down Morarji. It was Vajpayee and Hegde who met the president with the letter claiming support of 279 MPs. Out of this 23 MPs' signatures were forged. Investigative agencies alerted the president and he made it public. A shocked Morarji resigned and withdrew from the public life. In fact, on that day Hegde and Vajpayee should have quit public life."
Issue dated March 20, 1997
MORARJI and Charan Singh are known for their morality. But some immoral elements in the Janata (regime) calculated their personal gain by creating a wedge between them. For instance, Vajpayee was embarrassed when Morarji sternly warned him to stop drinking. In Delhi the Japanese external affairs minister had organised a party. Vajpayee, who was present there as India's external affairs minister, was drunk. I was also invited for that dinner. I was shocked to see the external affairs minister fully intoxicated...
"When Morarji asked me, I told him everything. Then, in front of me, he summoned Vajpayee and abused him. But Vajpayee did not open his mouth. He was standing there like a student caught redhanded for stealing by a teacher. As a retaliation and to keep Morarji within limits, Vajpayee sowed poison in Charan Singh's mind. It was Vajpayee who first planted the idea of prime ministership in the mind of Charan Singh. He kept meeting Morarji and Charan Singh separately and started spreading stories against each other. Popular perception is that it was Charan Singh who broke Janata. But the fact is that it was Vajpayee who destroyed the fort called Janata.
"Morarji and Charan Singh are like Kaikeyee of the Ramayana. In the Janata Ramayana, Kooni's role was played by Vajpayee."
Issue dated April 24, 1997
AFTER the 1977 general elections, based on the assurances given by Vajpayee and Nana Goray, Jagjivan Ram was confident of becoming the PM. The Jan Sangh had 102 MPs and the Socialists had 35 and Jagjivan Ram had 27 MPs. That is, out of 318 MPs, nearly half of them were behind Jagjivan Ram. But when Charan Singh clearly expressed that his choice was only Morarji Desai, Vajpayee did a silent somersault and met JP and said that he was willing to change his support. I was there with JP when Vajpayee came running—panting for breath—and expressed his support to Morarji. Jayaprakash Narain turned towards me and winked his gleaming eyes and smiled. Poor Jagjivan Ram was not aware of these developments."
Post 1999(after betrayal of Swamy's political ambitions) Sonia has become No 1 enemy. There is a perceptible trend in whatever he alleges. Other than heaping scorn and venom upon enemies he indulges in lot of self praise as you must have seen by now
Swamy in Rediff.com's interview (April 2002)
I believe that since 1995 Sonia Gandhi and (Prime Minister) Atal Bihari Vajpayee reached a deal which I should have known (about), but did not. That's how the 1999 toppling of the Bharatiya Janata Party government, which I organized, failed to bring about an alternative government. I think Sonia's deal with Vajpayee entails that as long as he is prime minister, she will not make any efforts to topple him unless she can come in his place. The deal is to protect each other. I can say very clearly that the prime minister and Congress chief share a lot of secrets. They are also engaged in many deals on which neither side is willing to speak up.Source: http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/apr/04inter.htm
Press release Dated 13-11-2003
I demand the immediate removal of Mr.Brijesh Mishra from the post of National Security Adviser and Secretary to the Prime Minister for the following reasons:Source: http://janataparty.org/pressdetail.asp?rowid=7
(a) He has a daughter, named Jyotsna who resides in Italy and is married to an Italian national. This Italian has close connections with Quattrocchi. Mishra can hold some other posts, but not these two. Mr.Mishra also reveals secrets of investigations of the CBI to Ms.Sonia Gandhi directly and through Mr.Natwar Singh.
(b) Mr.Mishra’s son resides in New York, and is in trouble with the US law. On Mishra’s intervention in his official capacity, Mishra’s son has been dealt leniently by the US law enforcement authority. This has compromised Mr.Mishra. Recently, in Washington Mr.Mishra gave the names of those Ministers of the Vajpayee Government who opposed sending of Indian troops to Iraq.
(c) Mr.Mishra is a heavy drinker of alchohol, and is generally out of his senses after 6 PM during foreign trips. He is thus a national security risk, and requires to be sacked.
I have filed a complaint with the CBI seeking an investigation on the CVC report to the Prime Minister that six Ministers are engaged in corrupt activities. If the CBI fails to act, I shall go to Court.
Press Release Dt 10.1.2004
In Delhi High Court, the CBI withholding telling the Court the truth about Ms.Sonia Gandhi’s involvement in antique smuggling, KGB links and Rajiv Gandhi assassination. The Prime Minister Mr.Vajpayee is protecting Ms.Sonia Gandhi from prosecution by ordering the CBI to stall proceedings. She is a very convenient opposition leader for the BJP.Source: http://janataparty.org/pressdetail.asp?rowid=11
Press Release Dt.15.3.2004
Source: http://janataparty.org/pressdetail.asp?rowid=14
3. Sonia states in her interview. “I have always felt very comfortable” with Vajpayee. Naturally !! They protect each other. Since she has much to hide. She has to keep the Prime Minister humoured. For the BJP, Ms.Sonia Gandhi is a convenient leader of the opposition who does not make an issue of import of sugar from Pakistan, the illegal release of terrorists in the Kandhahar IA flight hijack episode, or any other issue where the Prime Minister’s culpability is there. Her betrayal of the opposition cause of forming a secular alternative government in 1999 is known to all. What is not known is that she did it in collusion with Vajpayee.
5. I congratulate President Musharraf for speaking the truth—Vajpayee has capitulated in the Kashmir issue, and hence should apologise to the nation for it.
Dt.15.06.2004
Press release
2. Now that the RSS has given a slap on Vajpayee's face, it is up to him to show that he is not a hypocrite by quitting public life as Bajrang Dal has demanded. Vajpayee is already at the foothills of the Himalayas, and he can continue to stay there at his son-in-law's ill gotten and illegally acquired 5-star hotel, and save the country from his insincere pontifications. While in office Vajpayee did nothing about Narendra Modi. Now that he has lost, he should not behave like a rat on a sinking ship. It will further disgrace him and add to his history of disgraceful behaviour as in Quit India Movement in 1942, during the Emergency during 1975-77, and in the Indian Airlines hijack episode in Kandhahar in 1999.Source: http://janataparty.org/pressdetail.asp?rowid=18
From Swamy's article on Charan Singh
If Morarji was the brain of the Janata, Charan Singh was the spinal cord of the party. We needed both Janatha to be strong.Since both men were strict disciplinarians other less strict and more corrupt Janatha leaders saw personal advantage in dividing the two. Atal Behari Vajpayee was, for example, feeling insecure with Morarji for asking him to give up alcoholic drinks. On one occasion, when the Japanese Foreign Minister gave a dinner party in the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi, Vajpayee had became quite drunk in that party. I had been also invited to that dinner, and was horrified to see our Foreign Minister drunk. Morarji came to know of this through the Intelligence Bureau, so he asked me for confirmation, which I gladly gave. Morarji then called Vajpayee in my presence, and gave him big firing. Vajpayee had no answer except to giggle like a school girl caught stealing. But naturally he felt humiliated. To keep Morarji in check, Vajpayee began poisoning Charan Singh's mind. It was he who first put the idea of becoming PM in Charan Singh's mind. Like a typical trouble maker, Vajpayee could carry tales to Morarji about Charan Singh, and vice versa. The 'credit' thus of laying the foundation for the break up of Janata Party and the fall of its government, really goes to Vajpayee and not to Charan Singh as is popularly thought. The split came in 1979, and Charan Singh became PM with Indira Gandhi's help. I stayed in Janata with Morarji. Vajpayee ditched Charan Singh at the last minute, and decided to stay in the Janata Party. A year later, he ditched Morarji, and left the Janata to form the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and become its President.
Source: http://www.janataparty.org/articledetail.asp?rowid=12
More of Swamy's claims
- Vajpayee played a disgraceful role of writing an apology letter to Mrs.Gandhi during the Emergency - to come out on parole out of jail.
- Vajpayee betrayed Jagjivan Ram orelse he would have become the PM of India
- Vajpayee publicly claims that he is a bachelor but not a Bramachari
Here is one news report dating back to 23rd June 1993 http://www.indiarightsonline.com/Sabrang/relipolcom2.nsf/5e7647d942f529c9e5256c3100376e2e/b9d84c5ce0f2266765256af80036545a/$FILE/bac54751.pdf
wherein Swamy says “ I have satisfied myself with the proof that exists” on payoff to Advani and alleges "South African Indians supplied 7 kgs of gold for the Karseva at Ayodhya"
Very recently, in a newspaper article he proposed ways to wipe out Islamic terrorism and his suggested methods include removal of masjid at Kashi Vishwanath temple along with 300 other mosques in India. Dr.Subramaniya Swamy, as I understand wants to be a maverick politician who also loves to go with the trend and remain in hot news
There is lot more to be discovered about Swamy if one has time and patience to scan old newspapers. Let not his sophisticated language and trumpeted academic credentials deceive you. I’ll conclude saying this. Know your Subramaniya Swamy first before propagating his claims. I am not asking anyone to push his theories under carpet but also learn to question him or verify his sources of information. Let him approach right forums to prove his claims instead of using questionable means to vilify opponents.
With no one to question,such propaganda material gets multiplied all over the net and finally one day someone attributes credibility to it just because it's widespread.I fear a lot many things said by lot many other people are in propagation through unaccountable internet media and it doesn't augur well for India. There are many conspiracy theories like Tajmahal was Tejomahalaya etc., which have acceptance among many netizens. How easy it has become to exploit emotions and sway opinions?
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