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V SUNDARAM
The Presidential nominee of a political imposter from Italy like Sonia Gandhi, I mean Smt Pratibha Patil, seems to hail from a family with criminal antecedents. It has been reported that Prof Rajani Patil, widow of the Congress leader in Jalagaon (Maharashtra) who became a victim of political murder in September 2005, came to Delhi and addressed the press on 22 June 2007. On the previous day, she had submitted a detailed memorandum to President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, alleging that the conspirator behind her husband's murder was none other than the brother of Smt Pratibha Patil, then Governor of Rajasthan (and now UPA's candidate for the Presidential election). She also alleged that Smt Pratibha Patil (who too hails from Jalagaon) has been misusing her political influence to protect her brother. It is understood that she took a big risk in coming to Delhi and presenting before the national media the murky facts of this murder case. Never before in the history of mankind, in any part of the world, a person with such shady, unscrupulous and murky background as Smt.Pratibha Patil, was ever sponsored by a leading political party for the highest office of the Head of the State, as is now happening in our country. It is a disastrous symbol of the triumph of Italian mafia (backed up by the EU and United States) to unsettle and destroy the Indian State.
Soon after Prof Rajani Patil's shocking revelations in the national capital, a lot of additional information, pertaining to Smt Pratibha Patil and her family, has started coming out in the media. Now the whole country knows that she is a champion of women's rights only in the political sense in which Sonia Gandhi deems, declares, dictates and delivers it. Smt Pratibha Patil is a shining symbol of Congress brand of Super - Sonia democracy in which any exercise of freedom of speech within the party will only result in the total loss of freedom after speech. Natwar Singh found himself in such an unenviable predicament. Against this background, more and more people are asking themselves the question: 'Does Smt Pratibha Patil, a tainted person with such a criminal family background deserve to become the President of India?'
On 21 June, 2007, Prof Rajani Patil gave a memorandum to the President of India in which she stated as follows :
''Subject: A brokenhearted widow's plea for justice in a case of politically motivated murder of my husband, Shri V G Patil, President of the District Congress Committee of Jalagaon (Maharashtra), followed by mysterious death of the murderer, and protection to the conspirators by Smt Pratibha Patil, Governor of Rajasthan
Most Respected Rashtrapatiji,
I am an ordinary woman, a widow whose husband was snatched away from me by a brutal political murder which took place in Jalagaon exactly 21 months ago. I have come to you in search of justice, which has eluded me so far even though I have moved from pillar to post hoping, in vain, that those in power in Mumbai and New Delhi would listen to the cry of a helpless woman and discharge their lawful duty.
My husband was murdered near our house in Jalagaon on the morning of 21 September 2005. All the people of Jalagaon district were outraged and immediately came to the conclusion that this crime had been committed by the rivals of my husband within the Congress party. The police soon arrested two assailants – Raju Mali and Raju Sonawane – who were both supporters of Dr G N Patil, brother of Smt. Pratibha Patil, in his bid to win the DCC Presidential election. In fact, the initial confessions of these two persons before the police also confirmed that they had acted at the behest of some powerful persons in the local Congress party. The police even told the press that they had nabbed the assassins and would 'soon catch the conspirators'.
My pain is deeper because both my family and the family of my late husband, Prof V G Patil, who was president of the Jalagaon District Congress Committee at the time of his murder, have had a long and dedicated association with the Congress party. I am the proud daughter of a Freedom Fighter. I did not expect that the voice of some unscrupulous, corrupt and criminal-minded people in the Congress party in Jalagaon, who gave 'supari' for my husband's murder, would carry greater weight in the corridors of power both in Mumbai and in New Delhi. I have, therefore, come to you because you are the Custodian of the Constitution and Protector of the Rule of Law.”
So much for the decent and cultured antecedents of the family of Sonia's nominee for the Office of the President of India.
In these columns yesterday, I had written about the unscrupulous and callous manner in which Smt.Pratibha Patil distributed loans like CASH DOLES to her brothers and close relations (helpless people below the poverty line !) through Pratibha Mahila Sahakari Bank in Jalegoan of which she was the Founder Chairman and continued in that capacity till the bank was closed and liquidated on specific orders of the Reserve Bank of India in 2003.
According to Prakash Karat, Seetaram Yechuri, Brinda Karat, Raja and other Communist stalwarts, Smt Pratibha Patil is a crusader for labour rights. Let us hear what the Employees' Union of that liquidated bank has to say on the Presidential nominee of Sonia Gandhi who according to the Congress Party has beaten the unbeatable record of Mahatma Gandhi in the realm of supreme self sacrifice for the Indian nation in general and the poor people of India in particular.
In a lengthy memorandum dated 3.12.2001, the Employees' Union complained, the 'Founder Chairperson Pratibha Patil – during, before and after the period when she was formally on the Board of Directors – has facilitated the loot of large sums of money in the form of unlawful loans without surety extended to her own relatives and to people close to her family.' This gave a special thrill and joy to Sonia Gandhi and her henchmen in the Congress.
The Union alleged that, even though the bank was on the verge of bankruptcy, Pratibha Patil got huge amounts of interest waived on the loans given to her close relatives. As illustrations, they listed three such accounts:
1) Anjali Dilipsingh Patil (Pratibha Patil's niece), who got a WAIVER of Rs. 21.86 lakh;
2) Kavita Aravind Patil (sister-in-law of Pratibha Patil), who got a WAIVER of Rs. 8.59 lakh; and
3) Rajkaur Dilipsingh Patil (another sister-in-law of Pratibha Patil), who got a WAIVER of Rs. 2.47 lakh.
After the waivers were given, thanks to the influence of Smt.Pratibha Patil, the above accounts were promptly closed!
Thus, the Union concluded, 'there is a loot of Rs. 32.93 lakh'. The Union also stated “Pratibha Patil, her elder brother Dilipsingh Patil and the Board of Directors have, through different means, robbed nearly Rs. 2 crore… The bank is thus being bankrupted through a collusive strategy.' 'What kind of morality is this?”.
What appeared to be immoral to the Employees' Union in Jalaegaon, becomes moral, elevating and ennobling in the Dravidian political context in Tamilnadu. No wonder Karunanidhi is organizing a big women's rally in support of such a great, exemplary and unmatched woman as Smt. Pratibha Patil in Chennai to arouse the enthusiasm of the Tamil people in popular support of the candidature of Smt. Pratibha Patil for the Office of the President of India. While Bal Thakeray of Shiv Sena is willing to support Smt Pratibha Patil on the ground that she hails from Maharashtra, Karunanidhi and his party are too willing to dump a Peoples' President and Gentleman's President like Dr Abdul Kalam whose mother tongue is Tamil and who hails from a small village near Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, into the bay of Bengal. This despite the fact that Dr.Abdul Kalam can on no account be dismissed as an impotent Hindu refugee! So much for Karunanidhi's love for Tamil and Tamil people and more particularly for the minority Muslim community in Tamilnadu.
When the above legally irrefutable facts are presented to the public, the disgraceful Congress Party comes out with a cheap political comment “ all this is the work of the disgruntled BJP and its allies who are unable to field a candidate to match the intellectual, ethical, moral and official global stature of Maha Mata Smt Pratibha Patil”. The nation as a whole would like to give a rejoinder to Super Sonia and her Private Limited Company called the Congress in the following unbeatable words of Arun Shourie :
“It so happens that all the events, documents, proceedings in court, communications, etc., pertain to the period before Pratibha Patil was plucked from nowhere to be the Presidential candidate. And they are being recounted today PRECISELY BECAUSE Pratibha Patil has been nominated to become the President of the country. Till the other day, these were frauds of some district politicians. The murder was of concern primarily to the Jalagaon people. PRECISELY BECAUSE PRATIBHA PATIL IS LIKELY TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT, EACH FACET — THE FINANCIAL FRAUDS, THE MURDER, THE DELIBERATE DERAILMENT OF THE INVESTIGATION — BECOMES A MATTER OF URGENT NATIONAL CONCERN. IF THE FRAUDS AND MURDER ARE NOT EXHUMED TODAY, WHY, THAT WOULD BE A REAL CONSPIRACY”…
To Sonia Gandhi tracing her roots to Italy ( Mafia not excluded ! ), these facts / aspects are totally irrelevant to the welfare of India and her helpless people.
(To be continued)
(The writer is a retired IAS officer)
e-mail the writer at vsundaram@newstodaynet.com