Sir,
India’s most popular parliamentarism and senior counsel of its supreme court Ram Jethmalani was so right in 1987 when he wrote to India’s Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to resign about the Bofors guns deal scandal. These questions were subsequently published by World Sikh Organization (USA) in October 1987 as the time of Rajiv Gandhi’s visit to Harvard University and distributed all over North America. Likewise, late Jawaharlal Nehru’s octogenarian listener, Mrs. Vijay Lakshmi Pandit who ably served India not only as its ambassador to U.S.A. and U.S.S.R was also as High Commissioner to U.K. and President of U.N General Assembly in an interview to the Times of India, Sunday Review in 1987 said, “The best thing Rajiv can do now is to step down.”
Not too long ago, India’s comptroller and Auditor General in a detailed report presented to the Indian parliament through President of India as required by Article 151 (1) of Indian Constitution, leveled charges of serious improperties committed by Rajiv Gandhi in the purchase of Bofors guns for India’s defense forces. The dirt over these serious allegations had not yet settled down and now India’s retired chief of Army staff general K. Sundarj has exposed the payoffs paid in the amount of Rs. 64 crores in the purchase of these guns. (India Today, September 15, 1989).
Parliamentarians, retired statesmen, bureaucrats, diplomats and now competent professional army generals, all heavyweights, how many more we need to rid India of its most corrupt and inept Prime Minister in its first fifty years of independence.
Amarjit S. Buttar
Article extracted from this publication >> September 22, 1989
