Re: [HumJanenge] Will Sonia Gandhi Fall ?

It is doubtful,their wealth n power kept growing even when they were not in power.The opposition took no action to find out about their hidden wealth.even after emergency when Janta dal came to power nothing was done against the wealth of this family than how can we accept this statement of any body to be true.complete Nehru/Gandhi family has always been allowed to stay in govt accommodation  why? Even today Pryianka occupies a govt accommodation though she is not a member of any of the house or holding any public portfolio n this point has been raised a number of times. --- On Mon, 29/8/11, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote: From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> Subject: [HumJanenge] Will Sonia Gandhi Fall ? To: "humjanenge" <humjanenge@googlegroups.com> Date: Monday, 29 August, 2011, 10:08 PM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cleo-paskal/worlds-9-most-powerful-pe_b_853132.html <snip> "... However there have been growing, persistent murmurs about questionable business deals and inexplicable exponential jumps in the personal wealth of her and her family. The allegations came out in the open in 1995 when M. D. Nalapat, then Resident Editor (Delhi) of the world's largest English language newspaper, the Times of India, began a groundbreaking series of articles about Sonia. The articles made the controversial (at the time) claim that the public docility was just a ploy, and that Sonia actually had serious political ambitions (later confirmed by her role in Congress). Also, crucially, the series said that her desire for power wasn't simply altruistic and that the wealth not only of her, but of her Italian relatives, rose stratospherically after Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister in 1984. Nalapat's articles could not be ignored as he was one of India's most respected journalists and had, throughout his career, taken on corrupt politicians, social inequity and institutionalized discrimination. This however was a 'topic too far'. While the facts in the article were never refuted, Nalapat was forced out of journalism in 1998 and moved into academics. ... "