Who is Rahul Gandhi ?

Dr Subramanian Swamy on RAHUL GANDHI
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Rahul Gandhi – Lies on Education

.......Why is he (Rahul Gandhi) registered as Rahul Vinci Gandhi in Rolings college in Orlando or some place like that, which is a Christian missionary college.  Why did he not register himself as Rahul Gandhi?  Why did he claim he has M.Phil from Cambridge.  University of Cambridge has no record of any thesis, you cannot get M.Phil without any thesis.  How did he claim that?  I asked university of Cambridge to give me a letter.  The university said we know what you did with Sonia Gandhi letter, we are not going to give any more letters.  So, they decline to give me any letter.   I went to the library where all thesis are kept.  His name is not there.   Not there as a student also.  Not there in registrar’s office as student who took exam, in the year he mentioned, 1995.   So, why did he claim.  He first claimed he went to Harvard.  Yes, he went to Harvard, in the sense, when Rajiv Gandhi was Prime Minister, Indujas gave 11 million dollars to  Harvard Medical School  and on donor’s quota and Harvard has this quota, but once you enter, you have to compete,  in three months, Harvard said we don’t think you belong here.  So, he dropped out.  Now, he doesn’t use the word Harvard.  Unfortunately for him, some one in politics like me has long standing connection with Harvard.  Why you tell lies like this?  Because in our country we respect education.   So, you tell a lie about education.   All of us work hard, to pass examination and get a degree,  these guys don’t do anything, and they put themselves as educated.

Rahul Citizenship

Is Rahul a citizen of India?   He is born in India.  But the Italian law says that if your mother is Italian citizen at the time of your birth,  which in 1970, which time Sonia Gandhi was a citizen (of Italy),  then you automatically become a citizen of Italy.   And law in India says, you cannot be a citizen of India, unless you renounce the citizenship of another country.  Rahul Gandhi never renounced that citizenship because you are required by the law to declare  and give  a certificate to  Italian government that I have renounced that citizenship.  In fact, he uses a Italian passport by the name of Rahul Vinci,  Any time tomorrow, the Government comes that does not have the sychophants or those who are blackmailed by them,  then you can say that Rahul Gandhi also, you are not a citizen of India.  One of the things they have secretly kept, but that has gottenout now, is that Rahul Gandhi has gotten admission into ?? college on two grounds.  A) He is a Christian, in record and B) he is a marksman rifle shooter.   So, on sportsmen quota he got admission, not on grades.   How did he have to do that.  He could not pass hindi exam and he is representing the state of Uttar Pradesh.

This is the person who needs to be shown that he has nothing to do with Gandhi.  Gandhi was a man who was a barrister,  earned a name as a lawyer of south Africa, gave it all away for the country,  then if Rahul is using that name, you have a right to say, you are an imposter,  you don’t belong here.  (Claps).

Rahul Gandhi arrested by FBI

Rahul Gandhi was arrested at Boston airport.  He had 160,000 dollars in cash.  In united states, you cannot enter with more than 10,000 dollars without declaring it.  He didn’t declare and got caught.  He had with him a girlfriend by name Veronique Cartelli, citizen, passport holder spain, father Colombian.  Cartelli, means drug mafia.   And something else is there, which has not been identified.  27th September, 2001, they have SPG, like a royal family they have SPG cover. SPG said he is son of former Prime Minister and FBI said we don’t care.   It is the law.  Nine hours they kept.  Government of India intervened,  Condelezza Rice was told this will affect Indo-US relationship,  and then the FBI was told to let him go.  FBI registered a FIR or equivalent of FIR,  I don’t know what they call here, criminal case or whatever,  and was told anytime we want we can call you and you can go.  They let him go.  My friends here try to get information using freedom of information act to FBI and FBI said they will give his records, provided we get no objection certification from Rahul Gandhi because it is his personal records.   That’s the law.  So, I wrote a letter to Rahul Gandhi.   If you have nothing to hide, give us the permission.   He never replied.  Everybody knows.  This is in record.  Nothing to hide.  160,000 dollars in cash, carry such cash for what for? 

Rahul Gandhi – living with his girl friend

Don’t we think we have right to know if Rahul Gandhi is married or not?  In his house in Tughlak lane,  there is a foreign woman there.  Her name is Veronique Cartelli.   Is he married to her or not married to her?   Or is he living with her?   Can he not make that public?  What would the Indians think.  Rajiv Gandhi wife a foreigner.  Rahul Gandhi wife a foreigner.  Can’t  he find Indian girls at all?  And what were the antecedents of Veronique?   Daughter of drug mafia.  So,  we need to know.  Even in marriages,  we need to know.  Accountability in India is one can go to village and find out everything about me.  When you have a foreigner, you have to be doubly careful.  That should be doubly watched.

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Haunted House

Yet another ghost has jumped out of the attic after lying dormant for years and slapped the UPA Government in the face, sharply enough to leave it red-faced. Last November, the 2G spectrum scandal frightened the Congress and the Government badly enough after spending three years as a non-issue. Now, a scam that seemed to have been buried by the General Elections - the bribing of MPs for votes in Parliament that kept the UPA in power on July 22, 2008-has been resurrected by a WikiLeaks document that reported an American diplomat being shown Rs 50 crore in a treasure chest to buy MPs for the UPA.

A TV grab of MPs displaying cash in Parliament during the no-confidence vote on July 22, 2008.

Phantoms from the past have turned the Congress into a haunted house. The Opposition used the WikiLeaks cable to force the Government into a debate which turned out to be a fine example of parliamentary democracy. The star was a spirited Opposition that had the Government on edge, but the treasury benches fought back valiantly. A fiery Sushma Swaraj held sway in Lok Sabha while the erudite Arun Jaitley led the charge in Rajya Sabha. Swaraj used both logic and poetry to disarm the prime minister. "Tu idhar udhar ki na baat kar, yeh bata ki qaafila kyun loota; humein rahzanon se gila nahin, teri rehbari ka sawaal hai (Don't talk hearsay, tell us why the caravan was looted; we have no grouse against dacoits, but it is a question of your leadership)." In his reply, Manmohan Singh said he was no match for Swaraj's oratorical skills but went on to quote another couplet, "Maana ki teri deed ke qaabil nahin hoon main; tu mera shauq tou dekh, mera intezaar tou dekh (I understand that I am not worth your gaze; but have a look at my keenness, have a look at my anticipation for you)." The prime minister took on the Opposition point by point, couplet by couplet. He succeeded in restoring the initiative by the end of debate.

Swaraj also rebuked the prime minister for distancing himself from any crisis that overtook his Government. "Agar aapko kuch bhi nahi pata, toh aap PM kyun hain? (If you don't know anything, then why are you the PM?)" she asked. While defending the Government on the damaging WikiLeaks cable, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal brought up another cable that questioned senior BJP leader L.K. Advani's opposition to the nuclear deal. Even Congress President Sonia Gandhi made a rare intervention when BJP leader Yashwant Sinha mocked at the Government, asking, "What was at stake? Apart from the Government and its longevity, what was at stake was the Indo-US nuclear deal." At this point, Sonia intervened, saying, "They used to say the same about your Government." She, too, was referring to the WikiLeaks cable that talked of Advani's soft stance on the nuclear deal.

For the first time, 10 Janpath had been linked to allegations of bribery. The WikiLeaks cable that mentioned Rs 50 crore in a chest also referred to Satish Sharma, a close confidant of the Gandhi family, as the man trying to buy MPs for the Congress. "These are not WikiLeaks but WickedLeaks," said former Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh. 

PM Manmohan Singh spirited performance recovered the initiative for the UPA in Parliament.

If there was one reason why the Opposition should stop disrupting the Parliament, then this was it. Substantial argument and rhetorical flourish dominated the debate on the the cash-for-votes scandal. The CPI(M)'s Gurudas Dasgupta warned the Congress that "destiny has been kind to them but history will be cruel". When NCP leader Sharad Pawar tried to intervene, Dasgupta chided him saying, 'Pawarji, you have always been so docile. Why are you being sensitive now?" At the end of the debate, the prime minister replied, "I would like to make it clear once again that none from the Congress or the Government indulged in any such unlawful act during the trust vote in 2008. We have not been involved in any such transactions and we have not authorised anyone to indulge in such transactions." 

What precisely happened between July 21 and 22, 2008? Will its echoes and implications haunt the Congress in the manner of 2G, and before that, Bofors? 

The shortage (of votes) is covered by retail purchase of parliamentarians. It is universally believed now that corruption will follow Newton gravitational laws. It does not spread at the grassroots, it starts from the top, says leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley.

The plan to expose the Manmohan Singh Government was put into motion by a Jaipur-based wheelerdealer with BJP links called Suhail Hindustani. During Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government, he had latched on to then Union minister, Shahnawaz Hussain, and made his contacts with second-rung national leaders and their networkers. Soon after the Left withdrew support on July 9, 2008, Hindustani says he started getting calls from various middlemen asking him if he had any "plots for sale". This meant, Hindustani explains, whether he had MPs who could be bought for the trust vote. "I asked them, kitna ka kagaz lagega? (How much are they worth?)" The figures surprised Hindustani. 

He decided to investigate further and called S.P. Gupta, a now retired IAS officer from Haryana cadre, whom Hindustani describes as a close confidant of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Gupta immediately dropped in for a cup of coffee at Delhi's India Islamic Centre and asked him for a list of MPs. He said that he would introduce Hindustani to both Hooda and Ahmed Patel. Later that day, Hindustani ran into Uday Pratap Singh, an SP leader, at the Islamic Centre. Hindustani then decided to tap into Amar, for it was speculated that the then SP leader was busy mustering numbers to help the UPA. Uday Pratap said that while he had no access to Amar, he could introduce Hindustani to another SP MP, Rewati Raman Singh, who had access.

I want to say with great confidence that there is no video or audio of me (in sting operation). I am not in WikiLeaks or in the Tata-Radia tapes. These are not WikiLeaks but WickedLeaks, says former SP leader, Amar Singh.

This is, Hindustani says, when his conscience stepped in. "It's a fight for power. Wherever systems are weak, people come to rob," he told INDIA TODAY. The way he saw it, a vote for the nuclear deal would be a vote for America against India's national interests. So he called Advani's residence and claimed that as many as 15 BJP MPs had been targetted by the Congress as "vulnerable". Hindustani was asked to get in touch with one of Advani's key aides, Sudheendra Kulkarni. Hindustani gave him the list of MPs and said, "Apne MPs ko bacha lo (Save your MPs). Horse-trading is on full swing and I have been offered money to take some BJP MPs in their camp." Kulkarni says, "I have known Hindustani as a sincere activist, so there was no need to doubt his claim." He asked him, "Aapki pahunch kahan tak hai? (How far is your reach?)" The glib Hindustani replied, "Right up to Ahmed Patelji and Thakur Amar Singhji." Kulkarni then got in touch with other BJP leaders such as Advani, Jaitley, Ananth Kumar, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Swaraj. It was then that the idea of conducting a sting operation was hatched. On the morning of July 21, Jaitley told Kulkarni that CNN-IBN, a private news channel, had agreed to conduct this sting operation and put it on air. Three BJP MPs-Ashok Argal, Mahavir Bhagora and Faggan Singh Kulaste-were shorlisted as the bait. Their names were already on the list of "vulnerable MPs" who could switch over. Hindustani then sent out feelers that he had three MPs who were in the market. He says he met Congress leader Buta Singh's son, Lovely, along with another person Aman Arora at Hotel Claridges. Over "vegetable soup", Hindustani told them he had three "plots for sale". He claims that Lovely immediately whipped out his cellphone and fixed a meeting at Patel's residence for 7.30 p.m. that day (July 21, 2008). A jubilant Hindustani then alerted Kulkarni.

The CNN-IBN team, however, could not get its act together in time, so Hindustani rescheduled the meet. This, at least, is Hindustani's version. He went to Hotel Le Méridien, which is a stone's throw from Parliament. Only two of the BJP MPs, Bhagora and Kulaste, went to this meeting. The elusive Patel was not there, so his name could have been a chimera. Instead, Hindustani, who had accompanied these MPs, says former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Gegong Apang's son, Maharashtra Congressman Kripashankar Singh and the then Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda could be seen in the lobby. It could not be coincidental that all these leaders were present at a time when there was talk of some Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MPs and one Opposition MP from the Northeast being wooed by the Congress to vote for the deal.

"Wahan ka mahaul aise tha jaise qatl ki raat hoti hai (the atmosphere was very charged that night)," Hindustani later told the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) headed by K.C. Deo that probed this case. But the CNN-IBN tapes had no footage of any of these leaders at the hotel. Siddharth Gautam, who was then working with the news channel, had then denied the presence of any Congress leader at the hotel that day.

After this failed attempt to nail Patel, the group reconvened and Kulkarni asked Hindustani to get in touch with Rewati Raman. Hindustani got him to meet the group at Argal's residence at 4 Ferozshah Road. The sting cameras were in place when Rewati Raman arrived. He wanted the group to meet Amar that very night but the MPs demurred because they knew that they had to first get their cameras in place outside Amar's residence. In the tapes that CNN-IBN handed over to the JPC, Rewati Raman is heard telling the MPs, "I have not talked about the amount... We shall talk about the amount in front of you only... How can I talk? How do I know what you have?" Hindustani recalls with a laugh, "He could not understand why we were not going to Amar Singhji's residence that night itself. He kept asking, what are you scared of? Woh aapko kha nahin jayenge (He wont eat you)." Funnily enough, Argal says Gautam had warned the MPs against visiting Amar at night, saying that he might kidnap them. 

The very next day, on the morning of the trust vote, Hindustani got a call from Rewati Raman telling him to send the MPs to Amar's residence. Only Argal and Kulaste went along with Hindustani. The trio travelled in a white Zen. They had no hidden cameras on them as Gautam was worried that Amar would catch on. So the only cameras that were present were left outside Amar's house. The CNN-IBN tapes show the Zen going in and out of the house but since the car had tinted glasses, the faces of the passengers could not be seen. The CNN-IBN reporter told the JPC that he could not see the faces of any of the passengers except that of Hindustani.

Did we then enjoy the confidence of Lok Sabha? Yes, 275 to 256. Did we enjoy the confidence of the people? Yes,we came back with 201 seats and you were reduced to 118 seats, says home minister P. Chidambaram.

Hindustani recalls that Amar made a very gracious host, offering them dry fruits and cold drinks. "He walked shehanshahi tareeke se (in a royal manner)," says Hindustani. This is where the stories vary. According to Hindustani, Amar immediately picked up his phone and said, "Do kamal vaale aaye hain. Mere saamne baithe hain. Direct hain (Two people from the lotus party (BJP) have come. They are sitting directly in front of me)." Hindustani says, "Putting the phone down, he told us that he had spoken to Manmohan Singhji." However, when INDIA TODAY asked Argal, one of the MPs present, whether Amar had spoken to Manmohan, he denied it saying Amar called Patel and made both Kulaste and Argal talk to him. "Hoon-haan ki baat ki, zyada nahi (He only hummed and hawed, didn't say much)," said Argal, when asked about his conversation with the person at the other end of the phone, who he believed was Patel. Argal admits that he had no way of verifying if it was indeed Patel. He adds that Amar offered them Rs 3 crore each though Hindustani tried to bargain for more. "He told him, aap Thakur ho, Marwari ke jaise kyon bol rahe ho? (You are a Thakur, why are you talking like a Marwari?)," recalls Argal, adding, "Amar Singh told us that had we come last night, the rate would have been higher as by this morning, they had got over 275 MPs."

Since the plan was to catch the money on tape, the MPs told Amar to send the token amount of Rs 1 crore to Argal's residence, using the waiting media outside as an excuse. Speaking to INDIA TODAY, Amar denies that this meeting ever took place. "You saw the tapes? On it, the reporter says about me that he is too smart to be videographed and audiotaped. Bad luck for them," he says. He also added, "The natural law of justice says in absence of any concrete evidence, every individual is entitled to the benefit of doubt. To my harshest of critics and most hostile political enemies, I humbly request the benefit of doubt."

When the cash arrived at Argal's residence, it was carried by Sanjeev Saxena, a man who Hindustani claims to have seen at Amar's residence earlier. He was accompanied by another man in a yellow shirt and the duo carried the money in cloth bags. After handing over the money, Argal says, Saxena made the MPs speak to Amar. The exchange of money was also caught on camera; there were 10 bundles of Rs 10 lakh each. The serial numbers were noted down.

It is the habit of the prime minister to blame others. If you do not know anything, then why are you the prime minister? asks leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj.

After this, the MPs transferred the money to two black canvas bags. "Since there was a buzz in Parliament that we had not shown up for the vote that day, the media was on the lookout for us. So we requested two former MPs to accompany us and carry the money inside Parliament for us," says Argal. Later, during the vote, the trio walked into the Lok Sabha and displayed the money along with allegations of horse-trading. Pandemonium followed, but the UPA ended up winning the vote. It was 275 votes in favour of the UPA and 256 against it. The seeds of the current UPA'S problems were sown in UPA-I's finest hour.

"It was decided that the CNN-IBN will air the sting operation while the debate over vote of confidence was on in Parliament. But CNN-IBN backtracked," says Kulkarni. He adds, "The very senior BJP leader (read Jaitley), who had approached the channel for the sting operation, said he had failed to make a right choice after the channel did not keep its word." Amar, too, had a dig at CNN-IBN. "There is an allegation that money changed hands there also. High time Mr Sardesai should come clean." Rajdeep Sardesai, editor-in-chief of CNN-IBN, later told the JPC that "the reason why we did not telecast these tapes on that day, or at that time, was we felt that we needed to crosscheck and verify all the information that was there".

There have of course been a spate of denials. Rewati Raman told the JPC that he was told that Argal wanted to meet Amar as he wanted to join the SP as its Madhya Pradesh chief, since Argal's seat had been lost due to delimitation. "I spoke to Amar Singh and told him that these people want to join the party. He said, they don't have a good image; we don't want to absorb them in our party," said Rewati Raman. Saxena has denied that it was Amar who handed him Rs 1 crore to deliver to Argal's house. Instead, he claims that "a person accompanying Suhail, who joined me in the car at Ashoka Road (enroute to Argal's house), gave me the bag". Home Minister P. Chidambaram told Parliament in the recent debate that Hindustani's role in procuring the money cannot be ruled out. "Doubts persist with regard to his (Hindustani's) role, if any, in arranging the money in question," he said.

Saxena has denied working for Amar, saying he worked for Shahid Siddiqui, then an SP MP (he is now with the BSP), at 8 South Avenue "where both Shri Siddiqui and Shri Amar Singh used to work". Amar does not deny knowing Saxena but says he was not a paid employee.

"The media has asked us why the JPC did not call either Amar Singh or Ahmed Patel for cross examination," says Deo. "But there was no prima facie evidence against them. Just because their name is mentioned in some conversations... There has to be some proof against them. There is nothing on the tapes, neither their faces nor their voices," he added. Of course, the strongest denial has come from Manmohan Singh, albeit three years later. 

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Robert Vadra: Proxy Tycoon?

Fallout of the dwindling Dyarchy

Amidst the stench of corruption and malfeasance rising from the second political innings of the UPA coalition headed by Manmohan Singh but presided over by the Italian-born Sonia Gandhi comes a startling revelation – the unremarkable Robert Vadra, small time exporter of artificial jewellery and son-in-law of the Signora, is fast emerging as a virtual tycoon, with fingers in many industrial pies.

The revelations follow a public uproar over the outrageous loot of the exchequer in the Commonwealth Games and 2G Spectrum allotment scams, to mention only the most notorious. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his immediate family; circle of relations on both his own and his wife’s side; and personal friends, are nowhere indicted in any scandal.

The Gandhi family has been tainted with corruption and nepotism for at least four decades. Recently, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal subtly revived the Bofors ghost by declaring that the late Win Chaddha had taken a legally banned commission on the Bofors gun deal, and hence owed the State a handsome sum as income tax dues! So while the Signora’s well-oiled protection machinery ensured that her countryman Ottavio Quattrocchi got away with the loot and that the Hinduja brothers did not suffer for their role in the affair, the ITAT decision ensured that the illegal gratification was recorded officially in the country’s legal history. It is a lesson in the limits of proxy rule.

And now, just a few weeks down the line, comes the news that Priyanka Gandhi’s fitness freak polo playing spouse is making strides in the real estate business, a sector riddled with nepotism and scandal as exemplified by the Adarsh housing scam in Maharashtra, which forced Ms Sonia Gandhi to urge Congress chief ministers to give up their discretionary powers in this area.  

It is pertinent that facts personally embarrassing to the Gandhi family are emerging on the heels of strong nudges to Dr Manmohan Singh to step down so that Rahul Gandhi, reputedly the born-to-be ruler of India, could receive on-the-job training and redeem his otherwise inglorious existence. But the Prime Minister is no pushover and during a recent interaction with select senior journalists over the Spectrum Scam, explicitly stated he had no intention of resigning (read being driven out) as he had yet to go the metaphorical miles before he could consider an exit. In other words, he would go when the government went, and not before.

That these signals have been understood can be gauged from the fact that Sonia loyalists directly and indirectly sharpened their attack on the Prime Minister immediately thereafter. Senior ministers have urged journalists to target the Prime Minister and his office for the sins of omission and commission in the Spectrum scandal. Although the exposé of the Niira Radia tapes revealed that some journalists had networked with Congress leaders close to Sonia Gandhi to get the Telecom portfolio for Andimuthu Raja once again in the UPA-II – and that Singh had no say in the cabinet formation – senior ministers strove to implicate the Prime Minister enough to make him quit in disgust while publicly mouthing platitudes in his defence. It was schizophrenia at its best.

Dr Manmohan Singh is made of sterner stuff. Like the now forgotten Yuri Andropov who collected a handful of aides to erode the hated Soviet citadel from within, the Sardar too seems to have a set of unknown loyalists. His political ‘guru’ P.V. Narasimha Rao – no one even knew they were acquainted with each other until Manmohan Singh was anointed Union Finance Minister! – had secret Hindu sympathies that permitted the unhindered removal of the Babri structure in 1992 and so tilted the scales against the Congress in Uttar Pradesh that the party could not return to power for over a decade at the Centre, and that too only in coalition.

No one knows yet if Manmohan Singh has a covert personal or political agenda. But it is near certain that he was legitimately offended, if not enraged, at being asked at the very height of his stature as leader of a rising economic power who was being courted as a statesman in the international area, to step down in favour of the Amethi non-entity, who cannot even speak cogently on any issue of national concern and tends to disappear when things get politically controversial.

Sun shines over Robert Vadra

Whispers about the financial rise and rise of Robert Vadra have been doing the rounds for some years, escalating during the Commonwealth Games, but there was no independent corroboration of the same. This growing eminence is obviously a concerted decision of the Gandhi family and its courtiers, but could not have taken place without the knowledge of Dr Manmohan Singh and many others in industry and government. Thus, as in the Radia tapes episode, there are many sources from which the news could have leaked and it would be impossible to impute motives or fix responsibility. What is pertinent is the timing – it coincides with concerted attacks on the Prime Minister.

Robert Vadra’s entry into the real estate business has been accompanied by a partnership with the country’s largest realty firm, DLF Ltd, a staggering feat by any standards (The Economic Times, 14 March 2011). Hitherto known for the export of faux jewellery and handicrafts, the 42-year-old Vadra quietly switched lanes in 2008, buying up land in Haryana and Rajasthan, a 50% stake in a leading business hotel in Delhi, and attempting to enter the business of chartering aircraft, a quantum jump that certainly merits an explanation.

Vadra seems to have floated a number of companies, some of which have received unsecured loans from the DLF group companies, including the Bombay Stock Exchange-listed flagship DLF Ltd. Readers may recall that during investigations into the Spectrum Scam, the CBI found that a number of non-entity (shell) companies had received and passed on unsecured loans that ended up in Kalaignar TV! It believes these were bribes received against the sale of spectrum at throwaway prices, and that the loans would ultimately be cancelled as ‘bad debt’ and the slate wiped clean. Thus, Vadra’s receipt of unsecured loans certainly merits a probe.

Sky Light Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. (wholly owned by Vadra and his mother Maureen Vadra) is a partner, along with DLF Hotel Holdings and others, in a partnership firm that owns the posh Hilton Garden Inn in Saket.

DLF’s generous loans to Vadra companies, some without collateral, include:

-        As on March 2009, Sky Light Hospitality had received unsecured loans amounting to Rs 25 crore from DLF Ltd.

-        As on March 2010, only Rs 10 crore remained. It was unclear from the statement of accounts if the rest was paid back or written off.

-        Sky Light Hospitality in turn loaned money to other Vadra-owned companies such as Blue Breeze Trading Pvt. Ltd, North India IT Parks Pvt. Ltd, Real Earth Estates Pvt. Ltd and Sky Light Realty Pvt. Ltd.

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Knowledge of such unprecedented asset escalation naturally took the polity by surprise, though the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party tried to play down the issue owing to the covert proximity of some top leaders with the Congress and Sonia Gandhi in particular. A pathetic argument was forwarded that the party should not target the “family members” of the Congress leadership, an euphemism for Sonia Gandhi, though such sensitivity was not extended to the India-born M. Karunanidhi, and anyway has no place in public life.

For the CPI-M, however, Robert Vadra’s successful entrepreneurship has come as a timely boon, and the party hopes to extract full mileage from the same during the forthcoming assembly elections in West Bengal and Kerala. Sitaram Yechury emphasized that there was a strong case for an independent inquiry into Vadra’s activities.

Ra(h)ul (da) Vinci

Any investigation into Robert Vadra’s entrepreneurial prominence must legitimately cover the coy attempts of his brother-in-law Rahul Gandhi to become a business magnate. Media reports about the Amethi MP are opaque and have been noted perfunctorily only because Gandhi was compelled to reveal the same in his affidavit before the Election Commission.

In 2002, Rahul Gandhi launched a consultancy engineering firm, Backops Services Private Limited, with an authorized share capital of Rs 25 lakhs, divided into 25,000 equity shares of Rs 100 each. Gandhi himself held 83 per cent shares in the firm; the other shareholders were close family friend and aide Manoj Muttu; Anil Thakur, son of Madhya Pradesh Governor Rameshwar Thakur; and Delhi resident Ranvir Sinha.

Gandhi holds a mysterious M. Phil degree in Development Studies from Cambridge University, UK, though nobody knows when and where he completed his graduate and post-graduate studies. To this day not a single person has surfaced anywhere in the world to say that Raul Vinci (his disguise) was his/her classmate at x y or z college. The then Cambridge Master Amartya Sen defended the degree while stoutly declining to give details. However, in the wake of the Saif Gaddafi Ph.D. degree scam, it may be safe to assume that a friendly London establishment “took care of” the academic credentials of the wanna be PM-aspirant.

Similarly Raul Vinci is supposed to have done a stint as financial consultant in London. No colleague has stepped forward to say where, and how good or mediocre he was at the job.

What now merits investigation without delay – and the Supreme Court must urgently look into the same – is how Rahul Gandhi took on the identity of Raul Vinci. The specious plea that this was done for security reasons will not wash: Benazir Bhutto’s son Bilawal studies abroad under his own name, as do the scions of other eminent families.

-        So how did Rahul Gandhi get the Raul Vinci identity?

-        Was he given a Raul Vinci passport by the Indian passport office?

-        If so, what are the names of the alleged parents of Raul Vinci and what is the place of residence given on the document?

-        Or was a passport issued by a foreign country? Does this mean that Rahul Gandhi enjoys dual citizenship of some European country, which is illegal in Indian law?

-        Where is that passport now and how often and where has Rahul Gandhi travelled on it?

On 21 March 2011, The Indian Express reported that some time prior to the 2009 elections, Rahul gave up his business venture, Backops Services Private Limited, to devote himself to full-time politics. It was by all accounts a modest venture, nothing compared to the phenomenal ascent of Robert Vadra. What is pertinent, however, is the suspicious overlap in Rahul Gandhi’s retreat from business and Vadra’s big time leap into the arena.

 

Wikileaks: Sardar - Signora Dyarchy in distress

The Wikileaks revelations regarding American interest and overseeing of the 2008 cash-for-vote scam due to the Indo-US nuclear deal could not have come at a worse time for Sonia Gandhi, who once stated that the deal was very close to her heart, but did not say why.

On 18 March 2011, Dr Manmohan Singh told Parliament he did not authorise anyone to purchase any votes: “I am not aware of any purchase of votes. Certainly, I am not involved in any such things.” One can readily believe that; it is totally out of sync with the known character of Dr Singh.

More pertinently, all the alleged fixers in the 22 July 2008 cash-for-votes episode are closely aligned with Sonia Gandhi and her family, which lends credence to the view that the nuclear deal was one of her ‘pet projects’ for unknown reasons. To recap the Wiki revelations briefly:

-        Gandhi family loyalist Satish Sharma’s aide Nachiketa Kapur told a US Embassy official that the four RLD MPs [actually three] were paid Rs 10 crores each to vote for UPA-1. [Ajit Singh denied the charges and said his party voted against the government in the no-confidence motion].

-        Kapur allegedly showed the US Embassy employee “two chests containing cash” in July 2008 [to assure him that the nuclear deal would go through] and said Rs 50-60 crores was ready for use as “pay-offs” to win the support of some MPs ahead of crucial vote of confidence following Left withdrawal of support on account of the Indo-US nuke deal.

-        Satish Sharma reportedly told the US Political Counsellor that “PM Singh and others were trying to work on the Akali Dal (8 votes) through NRI businessman Sant Singh Chatwal and others, but unfortunately it did not work out” [robustly denied by Chatwal].

-        Industrialist Mukesh Ambani offered to help secure Shiv Sena’s support.

-        Congress chief Sonia Gandhi might meet Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MPs.

-        Sharma told US embassy political counselor that Rahul Gandhi was speaking to National Conference’s Omar Abdullah.

-        A Congress insider reported that then commerce minister Kamal Nath was “also helping to spread largesse”.

-        The cables talk of the Left’s troubles with Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee’s refusal to quit and Ajit Singh’s success in getting Lucknow’s Amausi airport renamed after his late father Charan Singh.

-        Satish Sharma quoted to say he was trying to sow divisions in BJP by working on former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s son-in-law Ranjan Bhattacharya.

-        Prakash Karat-Sitaram Yechury fault lines; Yechury admitted it was a mistake to have listed Speaker Chatterjee as a CPM MP in a letter withdrawing support, submitted to the President on July 8. A large group of CPM MPs unhappy at Karat for his “failed” strategy.

-        Regarding Left parties, cables say though defections were a possibility, communist party discipline remained strong and members were unlikely to vote with the government.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Cash-for-vote-Hotelier-Chatwal-says-WikiLeaks-allegations-baseless/articleshow/7733536.cms

It thus transpires that the landmark achievement of the UPA in its first innings – the Indo-US Nuclear Deal – was the agenda of Sonia Gandhi, and she put her entire political weight behind it. Dr Manmohan Singh owned it as a good lieutenant and because he was himself pro-America, but he did not have either the money or the manipulative skills to push it through as happened on 22 July 2008.

Sonia Gandhi’s covert patronage of the deal also explains why CNN-IBN ditched the BJP and refused to air the secret tapes of the behind-the-scenes horse-trading as promised on 22 July 2008. Of course this does not explain why Mr L.K. Advani – who had previously made a veiled pledge to Senator Joe Liebermann regarding the deal – chose CNN-IBN to make the recording in the first place, when the party had its own equipment and talent to make the recordings and had done so successfully in another case.

Anyway, it is now evident that the undeserved elevation of the inane Rahul Gandhi has sundered the Sonia Gandhi - Manmohan Singh Dyarchy. Had it not been for an obliging BJP, the regime would have fallen by now.

This may still happen, as Sonia Gandhi may find it cheaper to cut her losses by sinking the government rather than risk the mild-faced Sardar using the state machinery to put the family in the dock, compelling the Supreme Court to order an investigation à la Hasan Ali.

If the government falls out of its own inner contradictions, the BJP will find itself in an unenviable position. 

Also see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4FXqU8XY0A&feature=related

Source - http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=1687

http://leagueofindia.com/blog/robert-vadra-proxy-tycoon

Religious War

There is a religious war on Hindus by christians and muslims

Annual Statistics report prepared by the Revenue and Endowment Board of Andhra Pradesh (released in 2008) which maintains the Statistics and Accounts of Religious institutions in Andhra Pradesh have the following list which is self explanatory. Christians are 2.3%, but the Christian data says they are 6% in India now is more terrorizing with their house to house conversion effort than the physical suicide bombing muslims. The Document can be easily procured by paying a minimum fee at the Endowment Board in Hyderabad. The Contents of the Documents is really shocking to any Hindu. Please Read the following.

Existing No. of Temples, Mosques and Churches in as on 31st March 2005.

District	Temples		Churches		mosques
Adilabad	12,346		3,347		18,482
Ananthpur	14,008		4,892		9,328
Chittor	26,120		9,098		12,320
Cuddpah East	22,982		7,241		14,223
Godavari	8,220		12,123		9,230
Guntur	9,302		16,388		5,429
Hyderabad (Rangareddy)	13,144		3,204		15,203
Kakinada	7,203		8,585		5,274
Karimnagar	4,129		1,648		9,714
Khammam	5,210		7,203		5,922
Krishna	8,929		8,462		3,769
Kurnool	6,549		5,203		9,293
Machlipatnam	5,000(approx)		8,320		6,493
Mahboobnagar	3,299		3,128		7,235
Medak	6,302		3,203		3,234
Nellore	7,993		6,782		7,323
Nalgonda	6,882		2,412		5,239
Nizamabad	4,638		3,203		9,366
Prakasham	4,255		5,583		4,932
Srikakulam	7,339		9,879		2,140
Warangal	1,393		6,320		1,342
West Godavari	3,293		5,464		2,765
Vishakapatnam	6,430		3,203		4,203
Vizianagaram	3,891		3,100		3,500

What are the communal christians and communal muslims are up to in India. Christians have placed a Vatican spy Antonia Maino alias Sonia Gandhi in India and one of her christian chief minister in Andhra, the Samuel Reddy (full name Y. Samuel Rejasekhara Reddy and he is ashamed and hides his christian name like Yousuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar) is in the process of destroying Tirupathi. Chief Minister Samuel had already stopped the supply of fish for the free Asthma treatment given by the Bathini Goud brothers’ this year. (The fisheries dept used to supply lakhs of fish at Rs 7 per fish previously).

The muslims even after partition and occupation of Pakistan are breeding like rats in India and their numbers in India is more than that of Pakistan. Young muslims like the terrorist Haroon Rashid, a BTech from Aligarh Muslim University who joined HAL as a trainee with an intention to blow it up (Times of India 19-5-05) is the true face of muslims in India. What we should do about these two anti Indian communities?

Source - http://journey2truth.blog.co.uk/2008/11/18/there-is-a-religious-war-on-hindus-by-christians-and-muslims-5056459/

Sonia Gandhi is a plant of KGB, ISI and POPE in India

Sonia Gandhi is a plant of KGB, ISI and POPE in India

Maloy Krishna Dhar his book Open Secrets and other public secrets.

"We know nothing about you." told Mr. P.A. Sangma looking at Sonia Gandhi. Every leader in that room were aware of the fact that the Russian spy agency KGB had deposited US $2 billion (Rs 9400 Crores) in a Swiss bank account in 1985 in the "minor" account of Rahul Gandhi managed by his mother Sonia Gandhi that was reported years back in .Schweitzer Illustrierte, a Swiss news magazine. Is Sonia Gandhi, who called Vajpayee a gaddar (traitor) is the actual traitor? Does Sonia Gandhi alias Maino is a possible KGB and the Vatican secret agency Opus Dei's plant in India.

Sonia had bluffed Parliament in the 'Who is who' record which is part of the Parliament record, wherein it was stated on page 291 that Sonia Gandhi had a diploma in English from Cambridge University. This is false information and Sonia does not have even a high school certificate. This amounts to lying to the Parliament. Sonia had gone to work as a housemaid in the town of Cambridge and was learning English in a teaching shop. Russian Intelligence agencies have planted her in front of Rajiv Gandhi to trap him. The nation has no clue about who Sonia really is. What Sonia was doing between 1963 to 1967 in UK if she was not studying? India has no time to waste to find out the truth of Sonia Gandhi. She has a pedestrian intellect and not a suitable material to head our nation.

Who is Sonia? She is Antonia Maino of Italy and was born to Mrs. Paola Maino, in a small village called Orbassano, near Turin city. Her father was Stephano Maino and was a member of the fascist party. Sonia's parents were poor. Sonia was sent to UK from Italy to work as a housemaid in Cambridge. As her English was poor she used to attend a part time English speaking class at a roadside tutorial. Mrs. Antonia Maino was given the name 'Sonia' by her late mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi. But there is no notification in the gazette regarding this change in name. This change of name runs in Nehru family is to fool the Indian public for their votes. Indira Gandhi was Indira Priyadasini. Indira married as per Islamic rites Feroz Khan after converting herself to Islam. Indira’s muslim name was Maimuna Begum and later both had changed their name to fool the public of India on the advice of Ghandi by an affidavit in a court to Indira Gandhi and Feroz Gandhi. .

Before finding out about Sonia Gandhi, we should see what chilling incident happened in our neighboring Sikkim. In Sikkim a CIA agent Hope Cooke was presented as an American research student to the Sikkim prince and future King Palden Thondup Namgyal, for creating an independent Sikkim. . The then king appointed Ms. Cook as the English language tutor to the crown prince. Ms. Cook conveniently fell in love with her student and this culminated in the Royal wedding. Sikkim. Prince Palden Thondup Namgyal aged 39 married Hope Cooke, 22 in 1963 and conveniently his father Tashi Namgyal, the eleventh chogyal died in the same year. Sikkim used to be a protectorate of India, which had overall responsibility for its defense and foreign relations. Barring this, the territory enjoyed some autonomy under the Chogyal (ruler). The Indian intelligence was aware of CIA plot. Our government in 1975 ended the special status of Sikkim and Cook along with chogyal emigrated to US. Sonia could be the KGB or the Pope’s Opus Dei’s answer in India to what CIA did in Sikkim.

Russian spy agency KGB’s deposit of US $2 billion (Rs 9400 Crores) in a Swiss bank account in 1985 in the "minor" account of Rahul Gandhi managed by his mother Sonia Gandhi as was reported years back in .Schweitzer Illustrierte, a Swiss news magazine was not for free. Antonia Maino alias Sonia Gandhi has to payback for such an investment.

Is this the amount Russians paid for buying India? . It is no wonder that Mushareef is asking for the mediation of Kashmir issue by Sonia Gandhi. Sonia was Antonia Maino and was born in1944 in Luciana in Italy as per her birth certificate submitted to our Government. Strangely her official father Stefano Maino a mason, a fascist, and a Nazi army volunteer was a prisoner-of-war in Russia continuously from 1942 to 1945. At the time of Sonia’s marriage to Rajeev the papers had even reported that both were of the same age. So a new birth date of 1946 was created and the place of birth became Orbassano in Italy and the name became Sonia which is uncommon in Italy.

In 1966 she was working in London for an ISI operative Salman Thassir. Sonia’s link to KGB is also reported in the press. When Manmohan Singh's government taken office, Russia called back its career diplomat Ambassador in New Delhi and posted as the new Ambassador a person who was the KGB station chief in New Delhi during the 1970s. So it may not be surprising that recently we made urgent payment to Russia that was widely reported, even though the prices are not negotiated or finalized. Facts are stranger than fiction.

The revelations by the principal Swedish Bofors case investigator Sten Lindstrom on the pressure from the congress government in India that resulted in the misdirection and closing down of the Bofors investigation is really stunning information that points the finger at Rajiv and Sonia. The pressure from India also led to the Swedish National Audit Bureau sending a blanked out version of its inquiry to India. When a team of senior executives from Bofors traveled to India to testify before the Joint Parliamentary Committee, they were prevented from doing so. Instead they met a small group of officials to whom they did not hand over any names He says that Ottavio Quattrocchi, the Italian middleman who negotiated the political payoff through A E Services, and who was paid $7,123,000 as a gift must be interrogated along with Sonia Gandhi . 320 million Swedish kronor had been paid as bribe for the Bofors deal to the Hindujas and Win Chadha.

Win Chadha used to get faxes in Dubai on cabinet decisions on Bofors from the office of Rajiv Gandhi when Rajiv was the prime minister. I still remember the day Rajiv Gandhi visited the Dubai businessman Chabria at his office in the Jumbo house in Bur Dubai in the night like a thief when Chabria was wanted by the Indian police and it was a real shocker for me. I would not have believed it had I not seen the incident. Only time will tell as to what was the reason for that secret and clandestine meeting in Dubai. Italian government has approached our government in October 2003 with a request to drop the case against Quattrocchi which means that the Sonia marrying Rajiv is not a simple boy meets the girl thing, but could be a planned operation by the Vatican.

If Sonia becomes the PM of India the havoc that will visit us is incalculable. Everything about our national security, defense, scientific and technological progress by BARC, ISRO, DRDO, ICAR, ICMR, our trade policies will be an open book to Russia, Rome and even to the Muslim nations. The Italian mafia will take over Indian institutions and businesses. The consequences are very dreadful and macabre to imagine as our nations will be taken over through the backdoor.

In 1996 George Fernandez moved a resolution in the parliament which says that a person who is not an Indian by birth should not be allowed to hold high offices. Sonia never forgot this incident. Subsequently foreign funds came for the establishment of Tehelka, a website whose CEO was a nephew of Arjun Singh of Congress. The chief of Zee TV is close to Congress. Tehelka went into elaborate deception to discredit the Defense department of corruption. They showed senior politicians, bureaucrats and army officials apparently taking bribes from journalists posing as arms dealers. Tehelka.com's sponsor Zee TV prominently featured the story, sensationalizing it in the bargain. As far as the contents of the Tehelka tapes are concerned, they are worth nothing. The 'evidence' of the tapes would be thrown of any court in five minutes. Even worse, they would not be admissible even in an FIR (first information report), without which there cannot be an investigation.

To begin with, the 'evidence' was obtained illegally. Even the police need a court order to tape secretly. When the tapes were shown on TV, most people could not make head or tail of the comments provided by the broadcaster. Parliament was paralyzed for days by the opposition.

Possible involvement of ISI, KGB, Opus Dei

1. During Nehru's time Indira Gandhi might have been on the payroll of KGB. Later as per U.S. Congressional hearing records Indira Gandhi's family most likely Rajiv and Sonia, were on the payroll of the Pakistani Banker the late Agha Hassan Abedi, who founded the Bank known as Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). BCCI was a drug money laundering outfit finally owned by the ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zyed.

Mr. Manmohan Singh when he was the governor of Reserve Bank of India was advised by RAW not to issue license for opening the ISI bank BCCI in Bombay as BCCI was funding spying in India and was also funding the Pakistani nuclear programme. Yet Manmohan simply approved it. BCCI was used even by Reliance for its hawala transactions. (BCCI had grown as a result of it running a supply centre for ‘Pakistani minor girls’ to Sheikh Zyed and other leading Sheikhs in the Gulf. Naturally Sheikh became the leading share holder of BCCI. These details are available in the US senate reports.) The BCCI also known as the cocaine bank collapsed with a loss of $ 16 billion. All that Manmohan got was a scholarship for his daughter, but his main benefit turned out to be that the congress party immediately inducted him to the party.

Many details are available in our parliamentary proceedings when the collapse of the BCCI was discussed. Sonia had connections to the Vatican Bank which was active in Europe and America drug market where as BCCI specialized in the Asian drug market. Abedi's reach extended to the U.S. also. He even had the former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford as his lobbyist for a fee of nearly $100 million. All this was exposed in U.S. Congressional hearings.

2. KGB might have murdered Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Sastri, in Tashkent, by poisoning so that Nehru family can come back to power. Following the India-Pakistan War of 1965, Shastri met in Tashkent with President Ayub Khan of Pakistan and signed a “no-war” declaration. He died the next day Jan 11, 1966. The story put out by KGB that a Muslim cook with Lal Bahadur Sastri's entourage had poisoned him in Tashkent and escaped to Pakistan may be a cover-up for what KGB had done.

3. Sonia Gandhi was groomed and presented in front of Rajiv Gandhi by KGB, to hook Rajiv which was successful. Subsequently Rajiv marries Sonia.

4. KGB may be involved in the plane accident of Sanjiv Gandhi and might be pure murder to eliminate Sanjiv and to bring in Rajiv as the successor to Indira Gandhi. This paved the way for Rajiv Gandhi to become PM, who is married to KGB agent Sonia.

5. Rajiv Gandhi was killed by the Sri Lankan terrorist group LTTE which is totally supported and financed by christian organizations abroad. Rajiv Gandhi was blown up in Tamil Nadu on May 21, 1991 by a Roman Catholic female suicide bomber Dhanu, 24, whose real name was Kalaivathi. Once Rajiv was killed the external spy agencies might have worked behind the scenes to promote Sonia Gandhi. Potential threats to Sonia’s leadership were one by one eliminated in excellently planned natural accidents which are a KGB specialty.

All the deaths of potential future contenders of congress presidency were killed in accidents on Sundays. Sunday murders are a specialty of Christians and this is well proven in India's North Eastern states where the Christian terrorists murder Hindus mostly on Sundays. Muslims generally carryout terrorist killing of Hindus on Fridays. Rajesh Pilot died in a road accident on Sunday, Jitendra Prasada died of brain hemorrhage on Sunday and Madhava Scindia was killed in a place crash on Sunday. Kamal Nath, another prominent young Congress leader narrowly escaped when a small plane he was traveling in crashed, killing some others on board.

On Sunday 30th September. 2001 Madhavrao Scindia who was deputy leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha and one of its senior-most members, and who was also one of the boyfriend of Sonia in London, was killed along with seven others. They were charred beyond recognition in a plane crash.
Seventeen minutes before the plane was due to land in Kanpur, the Air Traffic Control in the city lost contact with it. The plane caught fire in mid-air and became a ball of fire by the time it hit the ground. Mystery shrouds the circumstances under which the aircraft crashed near Motta village in Mainpuri district. The Beechcraft C-90 aircraft used by Mr. Scindia belonged to Jindal Strips and was maintained by India International Aviation Ltd. In June 2000 the senior Congress leader Rajesh Pilot met with the fatal accident in the highway on a stretch between Jaipur and Dausa.

A retired Indian Police Service officer, Maloy Krishna Dhar, has revealed in his book Open Secrets certain "facts" that otherwise would have remained secret in the files of the Intelligence Bureau, which he served for 29 years. Though some of these incidents have always been talked about at informal gatherings, no one from the IB ever tried to produce it in "black and white". Dhar, in his 519-page book, makes a reference to an alleged plot by Dhirubhai Ambani's Reliance Industries to replace the then Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, with his cousin Arun Nehru.

He also gives vivid accounts of Maneka Gandhi's phone being tapped during Indira Gandhi's regime, the love life of BJP leaders Uma Bharti and K.N. Govinda-charya, an encounter with a Delhi policeman who had managed a posting at a coveted police station in central Delhi after spending Rs 5 lakhs for this and the identification of four Union ministers in Indira Gandhi's Cabinet as alleged conduits of the KGB, the intelligence agency of the erstwhile Soviet Union.

Although the author doesn't provide any direct evidence to prove his points, he claims to have picked only those incidents which had a direct bearing on him as an IB operative and with which he was involved on official orders from his boss in the IB. A former joint director in the IB, Dhar's book also contains a reference to how Dhirubhai Ambani gained a foothold inside the Indira Gandhi administration through certain bureaucrats.

The author also claims in his book that Mr. George Fernandes was rated by the IB as a foreign spy because of his links with Socialist International. "Several surveillance measures were adopted to keep a tag on his activities," Dhar claims in his book. On Maneka Gandhi he says: "The popular perception that Maneka was thrown out of 1, Safdarjung Road is not correct. She had meticulously prepared for the event ... My static watchers and moles inside the Prime Minister's house had noticed Maneka transferring out small baggage items, which allegedly contained cash, from Safdarjung house to her mother's place at Jorbagh ... Soon after Maneka contrived her exit from the Safdarjung residence of Indira Gandhi, I was directed to mount renewed technical and human intelligence operations against Maneka Gandhi and her mother... I was directed to bug the target phone and locate a `safe house' to record the transmitted telephone and room conversations...

The assigned task was accomplished without breaking into the premises of Maneka Gandhi." On Dhirubhai Ambani and Arun Nehru he writes: "Rajiv's woes were aggravated by a spate of `scandals' ... Arun Nehru, V.C. Shukla and powerful lobbies that ranged from industrial houses to thirsty and hungry politicians ably assisted him. In fact, certain accounts attributed a plotted coup by the Reliance Industry of Dhirubhai Ambani to replace Rajiv by Arun Nehru. They were indeed close during the days of bonhomie when Arun collected funds for Rajiv's political campaign. Dhirubhai was known to be a kind financier behind many a successful politician in India."

On the KGB connection, Dhar writes: "My painstaking research and intelligence penetration had succeeded in identifying four Union ministers (of Indira Gandhi's Cabinet) and over two dozen MPs who were on the payrolls of KGB operatives. Some of them are still around... But the most surprising area of penetration of the KGB was the ministry of defense and those layers of the Armed Forces which were responsible for procurement of military hardware. My list of these galactic stars did not amuse my bosses and I was advised to `secure that information' (sic) in my archive. No one at the top had the gumption of illuminating the government with the identity of the Soviet targets... The most interesting case was that of a member of Parliament who regularly received a pay packet from the Soviet embassy for covering certain segments of the kitchen cabinet of Indira Gandhi."

Source - http://journey2truth.blog.co.uk/2005/09/20/sonia_gandhi_is_a_plant_of_kgb_isi_and_p~192221/

The Sultan doesn't Live Here Any More

Dawood's Indian Empire

On the night of May 17, hours after two hit men had shot and killed the driver of Iqbal Kaskar, brother of India's most wanted don and suspected terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, the Mumbai Police posted two constables at the door of Kaskar's home in Mumbai's Bhendi Bazaar.

Kaskar, who has been the operating head of Dawood's multifaceted Indian business empire for nearly a decade, has a posse of security befitting an underworld don. His personal bodyguards carry unlicensed Smith and Wesson pistols. The murder of the driver, Arif Syed, stunned the underworld, as well as the police. No one had dared to raid the headquarters and heart of Dawood's operations, an unpretentious building in Pankhmodia Street, ever before.

The audacious killing was a signal from a rival gang that the fabled Dawood family and its "tiger den" were not beyond their bullets. Dawood himself, as is known, lives in Karachi under protection from the Pakistan authorities.

Why did the Mumbai Police send the constables, who we saw during our investigations and who are still there at the time of writing? They had not come to arrest Kaskar, who should be on top of any Indian police officer's most wanted list. The cynical view is that the police are interested more in the safety of Kaskar than his incarcenation since the underworld is such a lucrative source of hush-money. Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Deven Bharti says the constables are only for "discreet watch."

The police have certainly been brisk about picking up the hitmen-Billal Sayyed, 29, and Indralal Khatri, 28-who killed Kaskar's driver. That would be of much comfort to the Dawood gang, and a signal that they have friends in the right power cicles of India.

Kaskar was deported from Dubai in 2003 along with gangster Ejaz Pathan. Dawood, under severe pressure after Osama bin Laden's killing, heard of the murder while planning the wedding of his son, Moin, in Nairobi. He stayed back in Karachi and sent his wife, Mehjabeen, 48, to handle the celebrations. He even cancelled a proposed video conference to bless the couple.

Officers of the Mumbai Crime Branch say Dawood, who suffers from a heart ailment, has already asked his lieutenant Chhota Shakeel to seek revenge. "We are expecting some retaliatory action in Mumbai soon," says Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Bharti. Shakeel spoke to the Aaj Tak news channel from Dubai and said he was convinced that Dawood's arch-rival Chhota Rajan's friend, Ubed, had planned to kill Kaskar's driver as part of a larger conspiracy to eliminate Dawood's people.

According to Indian intelligence, Dawood, who lives in Karachi along with his brother Anees and lieutenants Chhota Shakeel, Tiger Memon, Aftab Batki, Edda Yakoob and Fahim Machmach, has been planning to shift base. He has shortlisted four African nations as possible destinations: Somalia, Zimbabwe, Congo and Sudan. Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials claim Dawood is trying to acquire vast tracts of land in Africa that can be sub-let for agricultural production. "His operatives are in touch with tribal chieftains," says an IB official.

Dawood's rivals, obviously, see this as a sign of weakness in a man who was once considered the "wallet" of the sub-continent's underworld. There is a feeling that Dawood is possibly making some moves under pressure. "For Rajan, it was the perfect time to send a signal to his rival," says Singh, warning that it would be wrong for anyone to presume Dawood would buckle under pressure.

It all boils down to territorial control, in India and abroad. In India, Dawood runs a Rs 10,000 crore plus operations that includes illegal mining, fake currency, betting syndicates, arms smuggling, real estate and commodities market investments and garments business in two-tier cities.

The don wants to collaborate with Maoists in mineral-rich states like Orissa, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh so that he has a larger grip on the Rs 400 crore illegal mining racket in the country's coal belt. "Last year, he paid Rs 25 lakh to a Chhattisgarh operative but was conned. He is now trying to use the Maoists in Nepal to touch base with their counterparts in India and offer them arms and ammunition," Home Secretary G.K. Pillai told India Today. "He wants control over some of the mines," added Pillai.

Besides coal, he wants to retain the lion's share of the $2.5 billion fake Indian currency note (FICN) market through Aftab Batki who, from Dubai, looks after the operation in India. Once he sent fake currency on ships meant to carry foodgrain. After Indian ports went on high alert, he began using the Nepal and Bangladesh routes. With the recent arrest of K.M. Abdullah, the Dubai-based conduit for his India operations, in Kerala, Dawood is looking for new partners. "Nepal has been the base for his currency operations for more than a decade," said Rajkumar Vhatkar, Deputy Commissioner of Mumbai Police (Operations). With tacit support from the Nepalese government, Dawood transports arms and fake currency from Pakistan for supply across India. Two years ago, he set up two arms-manufacturing units in western Nepal with the backing of the Maoists.

Police outside the home of Iqbal Kaskar in Mumbai after his driver was shot dead on May 17.

His other operation in Nepal is in the country's stock exchange. Nepali Home Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara had tried in vain to raise the issue with his Cabinet colleagues and offered them details of Dawood's benami investments in the stock market and some local banks in Nepal. Mahara's moves were countered by Prakash Dahal, the 29-year-old son of Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda, and Sarina Begum, a senior politician, who was reportedly present at the marriage ceremony of Dawood's daughter with former Pakistani cricket captain Javed Miandad's son. IB operatives in Dubai tracked a consignment of Nepalese jewellery that was sent by Begum through her friends in India for Dawood's daughter. Dahal had met up with Dawood's men in Dubai, claim Indian intelligence officials. Dahal has been under fire for his underworld links for quite some time.

Former Nepal prince Paras also has business links with Dawood and has helped the don run casino businesses in Kathmandu and Pokhara and over 1,000 dance bars in Thamel and Sondhara areas of Kathmandu.

The don ventured into the garments business last year. He set up a manufacturing unit on the outskirts of Shanghai and Rs 2,000 crore worth of supplies were flown to India illegally through the border towns of Nepalganj and Biratnagar. Indian Customs officials say the exchequer loses an estimated Rs 500 crore in taxes every year but no action has been taken against the garment smugglers and traders.

"That's illegitimate, something Dawood has always been associated with. But he is also getting into a host of legitimate businesses," said former IB chief A.K. Doval.

Dawood, listed in Mumbai Police records as an "absconding accused" and charged-along with his brother Anees Ibrahim-with masterminding the 1993 Mumbai serial bombings, is trying hard to gain legitimacy in his businesses. In India, he has been working overtime to develop links with top realtors. Some of them, claims Mumbai Police, were in touch with the don and had sought funds for developing real estate across Maharashtra. One of the co-owners of DB Realty, Vinod Goenka, currently in jail after being charge-sheeted in the 2G spectrum scam, has been investigated for his underworld links.

Iqbal Kaskar

Iqbal Kaskar waves at his supporters after he was granted bail in 2007.

In 2007, Mumbai-based builder Umesh Gandhi was arrested after Iqbal Attarwala, an aide of Dawood, named him in a land-grabbing case in Malad. The police got a clue of Dawood's real estate business after they arrested Karimullah Khan, an accused in the 1993 blasts, in 2008. Khan revealed details of Dawood's benami investments in real estate markets across India and legitimate investments in Karachi, along with his close associate Tiger Memon, the other mastermind of the 1993 blasts. An officer with Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) says they have specific information that several housing projects surrounding the ATS office in Mumbai's Byculla neighbourhood were funded by Dawood's men. "We are verifying the inputs," he said.

There are also legitimate investments that come through proper channels. Sources at the Bombay Stock Exchange say funds from Dawood and his associates now come through the foreign institutional investor (FII) route. "Unless mechanisms are in place, from where do the fiis got their funds?" asks Hemen Kapadia, a broker. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) tried to track such investments. SEBI even tried checking dubious realtors. "Even that did not help them get a grip on Dawood," says Kapadia.

In 2009, IB officials worked on a tip that terrorists had invested in Indian stock and commodities markets and Dawood was instrumental in channelising some investments because of his proximity with several business magnates in the oil-rich Gulf countries. Dawood's clout with the sheikhs was evident after the fugitive was seen actively participating in buzzard-hunting expeditions near the Guddu and Sukku barrages across the Indus river in Pakistan. But investigators made little headway into tracking investments made by Dawood and his syndicate in specific stocks.

Dawood was recently involved in an effort to bail out the cash-starved Pakistan Railways. Early this year, ISI, which provides him protection in Karachi, had asked him to divert some of his cash to ensure smooth functioning of the railways. The request was made when, in a series of strange incidents, freight trains loaded with grain and cement ran out of fuel across the country. According to IB, the request came after senior ISI officials and some Pakistani politicians drew up a list of rich people with the capacity to invest. "His tobacco products, sold under the brand name Fire, are a rage in Russia, the Middle East and Afghanistan. He has investments in the Karachi stock market, construction companies, malls, cement companies and an oil company in the Gulf. His business turnover is over Rs 20,000 crore," says an IB source.

His links with Mumbai film stars diminished after the 1993 blasts but Dawood has now acquired controlling interest in the Dubai-based Al-Mansoor Video and Karachi-based SADAF Trading Company, both known for selling pirated Indian films across Asia, Europe and the United States. SADAF's biggest market is India, where, due to lax anti-piracy laws, sales are relatively easy. SADAF, claim intelligence officials, controls almost 70 per cent of India's $1 billion piracy market.

Though passionate about cricket, the don cannot visit stadiums to watch matches in Pakistan or the Middle East. He, however, controls Asia's biggest betting syndicate through his Karachi-based aide, Shoaib Khan, and Dubai-based partner, Sunil Dubai. In the recent World Cup cricket tournament, where text messages about the final outcome of matches involving India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka were sent to millions of fans hours before the start of the ties, fingers were pointed at Dawood who is said to have raked in millions from the $6 billion betting operation that stretched for nearly two months. "His operatives know their business, they even watch weather reports on international wires before placing their bets," said Singh who tracked members of D-company closely during the gang wars of the early 1990s in Mumbai. "His focus remains countries like India and Nepal where he can provide the infrastructure required to carry out his operations," said Doval, adding,"no wonder he is heading to Africa."

The don's old business interest is narcotics, which he runs through his London-based confidant Iqbal Mirchi, also an accused in the 1993 blast case. Mirchi, who runs some casinos in East London with funding from Dawood, was approached by IB officials to turn approver in 2003 but he refused saying he feared for his life in Mumbai. The enraged Indian government auctioned his sprawling Bhopal bungalow in 2007 for Rs 4.84 crore.

Dawood has been procuring his drug supplies from Al Qaeda in Afghanistan since 1998. Al Qaeda uses Dawood's channels to transport narcotics, money and terrorists from Afghanistan. In return, Dawood provides finance to Lashkar-e-Toiba for its anti-India activities. Dawood also used his Al Qaeda connections to enter Afghanistan's illegal Scotch whisky trade which uses mules to carry the spirit into Pakistan for bottling. The liquor is then taken in dhows to Dubai and other African destinations from Karachi port.

Dawood's attempt to gain legitimacy is born out of desperation. "His vice-like grip on Mumbai Police and politicians doesn't exist anymore," said Bharti. Agrees Singh, who had trouble keeping secrets from moles in his office: "I fought two wars, one with Dawood's men and one with my moles."

With many of his foot soldiers and sharp-shooters eliminated in encounters, Dawood now recruits shooters from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka and Nepal on part-time basis so that the police cannot track such killers. What is still intact is his political support. In the early '90s, it was rumoured that around 75 politicians owed their entry to Parliament to Dawood though none could confirm his clout because there was nothing on paper. Politicians such as Bhai Thakur and Suresh alias Pappu Kalani were arrested for links with Dawood around the same time. An MLA in the Maharashtra Assembly is presently under the scanner of the Intelligence Bureau for his alleged links with the don.

Dawood is feeling the heat. The killing of Osama bin Laden has exposed once again Pakistan's duplicity in the protection of wanted terrorists. Dawood owes his freedom to ISI-and to India's lack of political will.

Why we can't Get Him

Dawood Ibrahim figures at a lowly number 8 on the home ministry's now-withdrawn dossier of the 50 most wanted fugitives from the law in India. Way below Lashkar-e-Toiba head Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and even Major Sameer Ali of the ISI. He is wanted for "conspiracy to cause bomb explosions in Mumbai in 1993 with intention to cause death". Nearly 18 years after the 1993 serial bombings that killed over 250 people, memories may be fading. The isi trained Dawood's gang members to wield arms and plant explosives. It also shipped in nearly three tonnes of RDX, ak-47s and grenades. Yet the bombings are still treated as a criminal case than an ISI-backed terrorist plot like the 26/11 attacks. This has further weakened India's case against Dawood. "Dawood does not get the kind of attention that Hafiz Mohammed Saeed or Maulana Masood Azhar gets," says an Indian intelligence official. That could be because the Dawood gang is still seen as an underworld outfit and not a terrorist group like the Lashkar-e-Toiba or the Jaish-e-Mohammed.

India does not have an extradition treaty with Pakistan. The other more serious hurdle: Pakistan simply denies the gangster-terrorist is in the country. Ahead of the 2002 Agra summit, President Pervez Musharraf told the then home minister L.K. Advani: "Mr Advani, let me emphatically tell you that Dawood Ibrahim is not in Pakistan." It is a story Pakistan has steadfastly clung to even as India has continued to bomb the Pakistani side with most-wanted lists every time the two sides meet.

India has been unable to apply sufficient political pressure on Pakistan to deport Dawood. The closest it came to doing this was between 2003 and 2004 when Advani took up Dawood's case with the US. The US department of treasury designated him a 'Specially-Designated Global Terrorist' under an executive order that would freeze assets belonging to him within the US and prohibit transactions with US nationals. For a while, it appeared as if Pakistan would finally concede to Dawood's presence, but when political pressure from India slipped, it went back to denial mode. Since then, Dawood has used his underworld network to facilitate terror operations in India and expand his presence in the fake Indian currency business and hawala transactions for terrorist outfits.

Experts say there is a case for Dawood to be put in a special category of individuals threatening national security. "The US went after Osama bin Laden not only because he masterminded the 9/11 attacks but also because he was a clear and present danger to them," says former director Intelligence Bureau, Ajit Doval.

With all other options to get Dawood fading, legal experts say India needs to get the US to apply pressure on Pakistan to deport him. "The US was the first to declare Dawood a global terrorist, India should now ask the US to pressure Pakistan into not sheltering him," says Ujjwal Nikam, special public prosecutor in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.

In 2006, 100 of the 129 accused in the Mumbai bombings were found guilty and convicted by the special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) court. It is the longest running trial in India's history. Indian investigators admit that there has been no investigation that conclusively links Dawood to the 1993 blasts. The sole thread that connects Dawood to the blasts is a confession made before the police by one of his lieutenants who saw him, Tiger Memon and three unknown Pakistani nationals hatch the blast conspiracy. "Even if we do bring Dawood back, can we convict him in the 1993 blasts case? All we have is a single confession made before the police which in inadmissible in court," says former CBI director Joginder Singh.

The Sultan doesn't Live Here Any More

The Interpol red corner notice for Dawood Ibrahim lists two addresses for him in Karachi. House No. 37 in 30th Defence Housing Authority (DHA) and 'White House', near the Saudi mosque in the city's tony Clifton Road locality. Both are some five kilometres apart. House No. 37 is a sprawling single-storey mansion now occupied by an engineer, Malik Bostan. A voice tells me this in flawless Urdu over a gate-mounted intercom. So I set off for Clifton which is less than two kilometres away from the naval airbase, pns Mehran, which was attacked by militants a few days ago. One of India's most wanted fugitives lives in a complex of five tightly packed bungalows set in an acre of prime real estate in Karachi. It is also less than 500 metres from the tomb of a revered saint, Shah Abdullah Ghazi.

The streets in Clifton are a far cry from the chaos of Karachi. They are clean, immaculately maintained and there are few people to be seen. Also missing are the city's ubiquitous yellow and green auto-rickshaws. Land Cruisers and S-Class Mercedes cars swish in and out of large gates. Only a few houses have numbers. Even the securitymen hide behind the gates and have to be buzzed by intercom. Very clearly, this is a place you go to only if you are a resident or have been invited. A bungalow here costs upwards of Rs 10 crore. Most residents are either retired navy or air force brass or billionaires whose industries figure prominently on the Karachi stock exchange.

The 'White House' is a complex of five single-storey bungalows set behind tall coconut trees. Two white buildings flank what seems to be the main dwelling, a dust brown single-storey mansion numbered 105/II. There is another bungalow at the rear. All the windows are sealed shut. The gate has a cctv camera. The walls are seven feet high but there are no high barbed-wire topped walls like the ones at the Osama bin Laden compound in Abbottabad. Apparently for good reason. The residents are state guests. Photography is prohibited, but there are no signboards. I discover why. As we take pictures of the bungalows, a man wearing a shalwar appears almost out of nowhere. "Who are you? What are you doing here? This isn't a tourist spot," he shouts in Urdu. He doesn't reveal his identity, police or military, but has security establishment written all over his clean-shaven face. He grabs my digital camera and shoos my taxi away. A few minutes later, he tosses the camera towards me. The memory card has been expertly removed. It turns out he is one of a dozen security personnel who guard the houses round the clock.

No one will tell you Dawood or Sultan Shah (his nom de guerre in close circles) lives here. Conversations are furtive, names are concealed. "If you want information about Dawood, then I'm not your man," says Muhammad Shakeel, a retired officer of the Pakistan Air Force. The response is the same from most people. Dawood is He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Probably because he has another name, Sultan Shah. A businessman who enjoys the patronage of the establishment.

He has an estimated net worth of $15 billion with investments in the shipping industry, airline sector and garment factories. His business interests are spread across Karachi, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Dubai, Germany, the UK, France, and several countries in Africa. The Dawood group is well-entrenched in Singapore and Malaysia with investments in real estate and shipping.

Pakistani authorities, however, deny any knowledge of his whereabouts. A source believes he may actually be living in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan. A retired deputy inspector general of the Karachi police advised this correspondent to look overseas. "Dawood and the other terrorists wanted by India do not live in Pakistan. Look for them in South Asia, Singapore, Dubai and Hong Kong," the officer says during a meeting in another part of Karachi.

However, in the course of the off-record conversation, he admits to personally supervising security arrangements for Dawood's daughter's wedding with Javed Miandad's son. "I was told by the police brass to make foolproof security arrangements for the event. The five day event was attended by the who's who of Pakistan-businessmen, politicians and army officials," he says. Another sign of how deep his roots run in his adopted country.

 

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