Do You Know Your Sonia?

By Dr. Subramanian Swamy

August 15, 2004
Patriotic Indians should thank the President of India for having the
courage by citing a legal hitch to dissuade Ms. Sonia Gandhi from
staking her claim to form the government in May this year. She
therefore did not as expected on May 17th become the Prime Minister
of 1 billion plus people of India. It can now be said
that the nation has been saved from a monumental, devastating, and
permanent injury to India's national interest and patriotic psyche
of Indians. And therefore every effort that can be made in
ademocracy should be made to ensure that Ms. Sonia Gandhi is
permanently out of reckoning for any public office. For those who
instinctively understand that, this Note is to explain the factual
basis for this conclusion, and suggest what patriotic Indians can do
now .

My opposition to Ms. Sonia Gandhi is not merely because she is

Italian---born. In other democratic countries, including in Italy,
such an issue [of foreign-born aspiring to be head of government]
would not even arise at all because the issue has already been
settled by law, that a person cannot hold the highest public office
unless he or she is native born.

In India there is no such law, but the President according to my

knowledge, correctly acted on a proviso to Section 5 of the Indian
Citizenship Act[1955] which empowers the Union Home Ministry to lay
down conditions that apply to Indian citizenship acquired by
foreigners by registration, which conditions would be based on the
principle of reciprocity, viz., in Ms Gandhi's case such of those
conditions that apply to Indians on becoming citizens of Italy would
apply to her.

The President reportedly told her that if she insisted on being

invited to form the government, he would want first to clarify, on a
reference to the Supreme Court, whether in view of this proviso her
appointment as PM could be successfully challenged in the court. It
is fair to assume that this report of the President's decision, is
correct since the President had before him my petition dated May 15,
2004 making just that point--- that Ms. Gandhi's citizenship is
conditional, and in particular she cannot be the PM legally. The
President had also given me an appointment at 12.45 PM on May 17,
2004 to explain my submissions in person, which I did. I also told
him that I would challenge such a constitutional appointment in the
Supreme Court just as I had in 2001 when the Tamil Nadu Governor
illegally swore in Ms Jayalalitha as Chief Minister.

In that case, the Supreme Court had after hearing me and many other
constitutional luminaries, upheld my contention that mere majority
in the House is insufficient for being sworn in to a constitutional
office. There must be no disqualification as well. Ms. Jayalalitha
had therefore to step down because she was disqualified by a
conviction handed by a trial court in the TANSI corruption case
filed by me as private complaint [she subsequently was acquitted by
the Madras High Court, and hence became eligible the next year].

I also cited to the President a 1962 Allahabad High Court case,

which held that this proviso in the Citizenship Act was binding and
lawful.

The nation in the Sonia matter has thus got an unexpected but
temporary reprieve, a reprieve received not only because her
citizenship of India by registration is not equal to one by birth
even by Indian law, but also a reprieve more because of what
national security risk was averted. To comprehend that risk, we must
first understand who Sonia Gandhi really is and what danger she, her
family and her friends in Italy hold for India's national security.
Even for an Indian born citizen, we find it difficult to know a
person's true background, but for an Italian born it is extremely
hard because of the remote access for most people to Italy in
language and familiarity. This note is about that danger that Sonia
represents to the nation, which the people need to know.

II

Ms. Sonia Gandhi's background as is publicized by her and her

Congress Party today, is based on three lies to hide the ugly
reality of her life.

First, her real name is Antonia not Sonia. The Italian Ambassador in
New Delhi revealed this in a letter dated April 27, 1983 to the
Union Home Ministry which letter has not been made public. Antonia
is Sonia's real name in her birth certificate. Sonia is the name
given to her subsequently by her father, Stefano Maino [now
deceased] following his return from Russia where he had been a
prisoner of war. Stefano had joined the Nazi army as a volunteer.
Sonia is a Russian not Italian name. While spending two years in a
Russian jail, Sonia's father had become quite pro-Soviet; especially
after the liberating US army in Italy had confiscated all fascists'
properties including his.

Second, she was not born in Orbassano as she claims in her bio data
submitted to Parliament on becoming MP, but in Luciana as stated in
her birth certificate. She perhaps would like to hide the place of
her birth because of her father's connection with the Nazis and
Mussolini's Fascists, and her family's continuing connections with
the Nazi-Fascists underground that is still surviving since 1945 in
Italy. Luciana is where Nazi-Fascist network is headquartered, and
is on the Italian-Swiss border. There can be no other explanation
for this otherwise meaningless lie.

Third, Sonia Gandhi has not studied beyond High School. She has
falsely claimed in her affidavit filed as a contesting candidate
before the Rae Bareli Returning Officer in the 2004 Lok Sabha
elections, that she qualified and got a diploma inEnglish from the
prestigious University of Cambridge, UK.

The truth is that Ms. Gandhi has never studied in any college
anywhere. She did go to a Catholic nun run seminary-school called
Maria Ausiliatrice in Giaveno [15 kms from adopted home town of
Orbassabo]. Poverty those days forced young Italian girls to go to
such missionaries and then in their teens go to UK to get jobs as
cleaning maids, waitresses and au pair. The Mainos were poor those
days.
Her father was a mason and mother a share cropper.

Sonia thus went to the town of Cambridge and first learnt some
English in a teaching shop called Lennox School [which has since
1970 been wound up]. That is all her "education" is---learnt enough
English language to get domestic help jobs. But in Indian society
education is highly valued. Thus, to fool the Indian public, Sonia
Gandhi willfully fibbed about her qualifications in Parliamentary
records [which is a Breach of Ethics Rules] and in a sworn affidavit
[which is criminal offence under IPC, severe enough to disqualify
her from being MP]. In popular parlance, this is called 420 or
10 "numberi" [not to be confused with 10 Janpath].

These three lies indicate that Ms. Sonia Gandhi has something to
hide, or has a hidden agenda for India. We need to find out more
about her.

III

Ms. Sonia Gandhi upon learning enough English became a waitress in

Varsity Restaurant in Cambridge town. She first met Rajiv when he
came to the restaurant in 1965. Rajiv was a student in the
University, but could not cope with the academic rigour for long. So
he had to depart in 1966 for London where he was briefly in Imperial
College of Engineering as a student. Sonia too moved to London, and
according my information, got a job with an outfit run by Salman
Thassir, a debonair Pakistani based in Lahore, and who has a export-
import company headquartered in Dubai but who spends most of his
time in London. Thisfits the profile of an ISI functionary.

Obviously, Sonia made enough money in this job to loan Rajiv funds
in London, who was obviously living beyond his allowances [Indira
herself expressed anguish to me on this score in late 1965 when she
invited me to a private tea at the Guest House in Brandeis
University]. Rajiv's letters to Sanjay, who was also in London then,
clearly indicate that he was in financial debt to Sonia because he
requested Sanjay who obviously had more access to money, to pay off
the debt.
However, Rajiv was not the only friend Sonia was seeing those days.
Madhavrao Scindia and a German by name Stiegler are worth mentioning
as other good friends of Sonia. Madhavrao's friendship continued
even after Sonia's marriage to Rajiv.
Scindia in 1982 was involved in a traffic accident near IIT, Delhi
main gate while driving a car at 2 AM. Sonia was the only other
passenger. Both were badly injured. A student of IIT who was burning
midnight oil was out for a cup of coffee. He picked them up from the
car, hailed an auto rickshaw and sent an
injured Sonia to Mrs Indira Gandhi's house since she insisted in not
going to a hospital. Madhavrao had broken a leg and in too much pain
to make any demand. He was taken to hospital by the Delhi Police who
had arrived a little after Sonia had left the scene. In later years,
Madhavrao had become privately critical of Sonia, and told some
close friends about his apprehensions about Sonia. It is a pity that
he died in mysterious circumstances in an aircrash.

The circumstance under which Rajiv hastily married Sonia in a Church

in Orbassano is controversial but that was his personal matter that
has no public significance. But what is of public significance is
that Indira Gandhi who was initially dead set against the marriage
for reasons known to her, relented to hold a registry marriage with
Hindu ceremonial trappings in New Delhi only after the pro-Soviet
T.N. Kaul prevailed upon her to accept the marriage in "the larger
interest of cementing Indo-Soviet Friendship". Kaul would not have
intervened unless the Soviet Union had asked him to.

IV

Such has been the extensive patronage from the beginning extended to
Sonia Gandhi from the Soviets. When a Prime Minister of India's son
dates a girl in London, the KGB which valued Indo-Soviet relations,
obviously would investigate her and find out that she was the
daughter of Stefano, their old reliable Italian contact. Thus, Sonia
with Rajiv meant deeper access to the household of the Indian Prime
Minister. Hence cementing the Rajiv-Sonia relations was in the
Soviet national interest and they went to work on it. And they did
through their then existing moles in the Indira Gandhi camp.

After her marriage to Rajiv, the Soviet connection with the Mainos
was fortified and nurtured by generous financial help through
commissions and kickbacks on every Indo,Soviet trade deal and
defence purchases. According to the respected Swiss magazine,
Schweitzer Illustrate [November 1991 issue], Rajiv Gandhi had about
$ 2 billion in numbered Swiss bank accounts,which Sonia inherited
upon his assassination. Dr. Yevgenia Albats, Ph.D [Harvard], is a
noted Russian scholar and journalist, and was a member of the KGB
Commission set up by President Yeltsin in August 1991. She was privy
to the Soviet intelligence files that documented these deals and KGB
facilitation of the same. In her book,The State Within a State,The
KGB in Soviet Union, she even gives the file numbers of such
intelligence files, which can now be accessed by any Indian
government through a formal request to the Kremlin.

The Russsian Government in 1992 was confronted by the Albats'

disclosure; they confirmed it through their official spokesperson to
the press [which was published in Hindu in 1992], defending such
financial payments as necessary in "Soviet ideological interest".

When the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, things changed for Ms.
Sonia Gandhi. Her patrons evaporated. The rump that became Russia
was in a financial mess and disorder. So Ms. Sonia Gandhi became a
supporter of another communist country to the annoyance of the
Russians.

The national security ramification of this 'annoyance' is now

significant: The President of Russia today is Putin, a former dyed-
in-the-wool KGB officer. Upon Dr. Manmohan Singh's government taking
office, Russia called back it's career diplomat Ambassador in New
Delhi and immediately posted as the new Ambassador a person who was
the KGB station chief in New Delhi during the 1970s. In view of Dr.
Albats confirmed revelation, it stands to reason that the new
Ambassador would have known first hand about Sonia's connections
with the KGB. He may have in fact been her "controller". The new
Indian government which is defacto Sonia's, cannot afford to annoy
him or even disregard Russian demands coming from him? They will
obviously placate him so as not to risk exposure. Is this
not a major national security risk and a delicate matter for the
nation?
Of course, all Indians would like good normal and healthy relations
with Russia. Who can forget their assistance to us in times of need?
Today's Russia is the residual legatee of that Soviet Union which
helped India. But just because of that, should we tolerate those in
our government set up having clandestine links with a foreign spy
agency? In the United States, the government did not tolerate an
American spying for Israel even though the two countries are as
close as any two countries can be. National security and friendship
are asdifferent as chalk and cheese.

In December 2001, I had filed a Writ Petition in the Delhi High

Court with the photocopies of the KGB documents, and sought a CBI
investigation, which the Vajpayee Government was refusing. Earlier,
Minister of State for CBI, Vasundara Raje [now Rajasthan CM], on my
letter dated March 3, 2001, had ordered the CBI to investigate. But
after Sonia Gandhi and her party stalled the proceedings of
Parliament on this issue, the then Prime Minister Vajpayee cancelled
Vasundara's direction to the CBI.

The Delhi High Court issued a direction to the CBI to ascertain from
Russia the truth of my charges. The CBI procrastinated for three
years, and finally told the Court without an FIR registered the
Russians will not entertain any such query. But who stopped the CBI
from registering an FIR? The next hearing of the case is on
September 8th.

After Sonia married Rajiv, she went about minting money with scant
regard for Indian laws and treasures. Within a few years the Mainos
went from utter poverty to billionaires. There was no area that was
left out for the rip-off. On November 19, 1974, as fresh entrant to
Parliament, I asked the then Prime Minister Ms. Indira Gandhi on the
floor of the House if her daughter-in-law, Sonia Gandhi was acting
as an insurance agent of a public sector insurance company [Oriental
Fire & Insurance], giving the Prime Minister's official residence as
her business address, and using undue influence to insure all the
officers of the PMO while remaining an Italian citizen [thus
violating FERA]? There was uproar in Parliament, but Mrs. Indira
Gandhi had no alternative but to cut her losses. She made a rare
admission that it was so, and that it was by mistake, but that Sonia
had resigned from her insurance agent status [after my question].
But Sonia was incorrigible. Her contempt for Indian law continued to
manifest.

The Justice A.C. Gupta Commission set up by the Janata Party

government in 1977 came out with a voluminous report on the Maruti
Company then owned by the Gandhi family, and has listed eight
violations of FERA, Companies Act, and Foreigners Registration Act
by Sonia Gandhi. She was never prosecuted, but can be still
prosecuted because under Indian law, economic crimes not subject to
the statute of limitation.

In January 1980, Indira Gandhi returned as Prime Minister. The first

thing Sonia did was to enroll herself as a voter. This was a gross
violation of the law, enough to cause cancellation of her visa
[since she was admittedly an Italian citizen then]. There was some
hullabaloo in the press about it, so the Delhi Chief Electoral
Officer got her name deleted in 1982. But in January 1983, she again
enrolled herself as a voter! Such is her revealed disdain for Indian
laws and that is her mindset even today.

VI

The bottom line observed in Sonia's mindset is that she can always
run back to Italy if she becomes vulnerable at anytime. In Peru,
President Fujimori who all along claimed to be "born Peruvian",
faced with a corruption charge fled to Japan with his loot and
reclaimed his Japanese citizenship.

In 1977, when the Janata Party defeated the Congress at the polls,
and formed the government, Sonia with her two children, abandoned
Indira Gandhi and ran to the Italian Embassy in New Delhi and hid
there. Rajiv Gandhi was a government servant then [as an Indian
Airlines pilot], but he too tagged along and hid in that foreign
embassy ! Such was her baneful influence on him. Rajiv did snap out
Sonia's influence after 1989, but alas he was assassinated before he
could rectify it. Those close to Rajiv knew that he was planning set
things right about Sonia after the 1991 elections. She did too know
of it because he had told her. Ever wonder why Sonia's closest
advisers are those whom Rajiv literally hated? Ambika Soni is one
such name. Ever wonder why she asked the President of India to set
aside, on a mercy petition, the Supreme Court judgment directing
that Rajiv Gandhi's LTTE killers be hanged to death, when she was
not similarly moved for Satwant Singh who killed Indira Gandhi or
recently for Dhanajoy Chattopadhyaya? The explanation for this
special consideration for the LTTE lies in what Rajiv had told her
in 1990.

Those who have no love for India will not hesitate to plunder her
treasures. Mohammed Ghori, Nadir Shah, and the British scum in the
East India Company made no secret of it. But Sonia Gandhi has been
more discreet, but as greedy, in her looting of Indian treasures.
When Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were PrimeMinisters, not a day
passed when the PM's security did not go to the New Delhi, or
Chennai international airport to send crates and crates unchecked by
customs to Rome. Air India and Alitalia were the carriers. Mr. Arjun
Singh first as CM, later as Union Minister in charge of Culture was
her hatchet man. Indian temple sculpture of gods and goddesses,
antiques, pichwai paintings, shatoosh shawls, coins, and you name
it, were transported to Italy to be first displayed in two shops
owned by her sister [i.e., Anuskha alias Alessandra]. These shops
located in blue-collar areas of Rivolta [shop name: Etnica] and
Orbassano [shop name:Ganpati] did little business because which blue
collar Italian wants Indian antiques? The shops were to make false
bills, and thereafter these treasures were taken to London for
auction by Sotheby's and Christies. Some of this ill-gotten money
from auction went into Rahul Gandhi's National Westminister Bank and
Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, London accounts, but most of it found it's
way into the Gandhi family account in the Bank of America in Cayman
Islands.

Rahul's expenses and tuition fees for the one-year he was at

Harvard, was paid from the Cayman Island account. What kind of
people are these Gandhi-Mainos that bite the very hand of Bharat
Mata that fed them and gave them a good life? How can the nation
trust such greedy thieves?

Since I failed to persuade the Vajpayee government to defend India's

treasures from plunder by the Mainos, I approached the Delhi High
Court in a PIL. The first Bench of the court issued notice to the
Government, but since the Indian government dragged it's feet, the
Court directed the CBI to seek Interpol's and Italian government's
help. The Italian government justifiably asked for a Letter Rogatory
for which a FIR is a pre-requisite. But the Interpol did oblige and
submitted two voluminous reports, which the Court directed the CBI
to hand over to me. But CBI has refused, and has claimed privilege!
The CBI has also been caught lying in court by telling the judges
that Alessandra Maino is a name of a man, and Via Bellini 14,
Orbassano is a name of a village [not the street
address of the Maino's residence]. Although the CBI counsel had to
apologise to the court stating he made a mistake, he has been
promoted to Additional Solicitor General by the new government! The
Vajpayee-Sonia mutual assistance pact is in full view. The case now
comes up on September 8th.

But the most sinister aspect of Sonia Gandhi's character is her

connection with terrorists. I am still working on it, but she has
had long connection with the Habash group of Palestinian, and has
funded Palestinian families that lost their kith and kin in a
suicide bombing or hijacking episode. This, Rajiv Gandhi
himself told me and was confirmed to me [the funding] by Yassir
Arafat when I met him in Tunis on October 17, 1990 at the request of
Rajiv Gandhi. Rajiv Gandhi and I were good friends from 1978, but
became very close buddies after V.P. Singh had betrayed him in 1987.
We met practically every day, mostly in the early hours from 1AM to
4AM. It was at my suggestion that he made Chandrashekhar the PM. And
contrary to public impression, he was not mainly responsible for the
fall of Chandrashekar government in which I was a Minister.

Besides the Palestinian extremists, the Maino family have had

extensive business dealings with Saddam Hussein, and surprisingly
with the LTTE ["the Tamil Tigers"] since 1984. Sonia's mother Paola
Predebon Maino, and businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi were the main
contacts with the Tigers. The mother used the LTTE for money
laundering and Quattrocchi for selling weapons to earn commissions.
Sonia's conduit to the LTTE has been and is through Arjun Singh who
uses Bangalore as the nodal point for contact.

There is a string of circumstantial evidence pointing to the prima

facie possibility that the Maino family may have contracted the LTTE
to kill Rajiv Gandhi . The family may have assured the LTTE that
nothing would happen to them because they would ensure it is blamed
on the Sikhs or the evidence so much fudged that no court would
convict them. But D.R. Karthikeyan of the CBI who led the SIT
investigation got the support of Narasimha Rao and cracked the case,
and got the LTTE convicted in the trial court, and which conviction
was upheld in the Supreme Court.

Although on the involvement of Congress Party in the assassination,

DRK soft peddled on a number of leads perhaps because he did not
want political controversy to put roadblocks on his investigation as
a whole. The Justice J. S. Verma Commission, which was set up as the
last official act of the Chandrashekhar government before demitting
office on June 21, 1991, did find that the Congress leaders had
disrupted the security arrangements for the Sriperumbudur meeting.
The Commission wanted further probe into it but the Rao
government rejected that demand. In the meantime under Sonia's
pressure, the Jain Commission was set up by the Rao government,
which tried to muddy the waters and thus exonerate the LTTE. But the
trial court judgment convicting the LTTE came earlier, and that
sinister effort too failed.

Nowadays, Sonia is quite unabashed in having political alliance with

those who praise Rajiv Gandhi's killers. No Indian widow would ever
do that. My investigations into Sonia's involvement in Rajiv's
assassination is therefore still on. I am also author of a best
seller titled Assassination Of Rajiv Gandhi,Unasked Questions and
Unanswered Queries [published by Konark in 2000] in which I have
given some indications.

Is it not significant that the political career of Sonia Gandhi

advances concomitantly with a series of assassinations and
apparently accidental deaths? How did Sanjay's plane nosedive to a
crash and yet the fuselage not explode? There was no fuel! Why was
there no inquiry conducted? Is it not a fact that Indira Gandhi died
because of loss of blood from the wounds and not directly due to a
bullet impacting her head or heart? Then is it not strange that
Sonia had insisted that the bleeding Indira be driven to Lohia
Hospital -- in the opposite direction to AIIMS, which had a
contingency protocol set up for precisely suchan event? And after
reaching Lohia Hospital, did not Sonia change her mind and demand
that they all drive to AIIMS thus losing 24 valuable minutes.

The same kind of mystery surrounds the sudden deaths of Sonia's

other political roadblocks such as Rajesh Pilot, Jitendra Prasad,
and Madhavrao Scindia. Such things happened in the dark ages in
Italy. Should we allow it India like dumb cattle?

What Can We Do?

We have to ensure that the Maino clan does not stay in power. Dr.
Manmohan Singh may be PM, which is a small relief, but he is not a
fighter. The real power in government today is wielded by the Maino
mafia gang. Can they be dethroned?

In Indian democracy, only a shocking scandal can unseat a government

other than by losing majority. Today's priority is not for toppling
the Congress government as such since Manmohan Singh is a decent and
scholarly person, but in driving the Maino clan out of India. It
will however not be long before Sonia will give Manmohan Singh
marching orders, and he will march out meekly. We should not expect
him to resist.

With Sonia's defacto government in place, it is also unrealistic to

expect that I can get an early victory in the courts on the KGB and
antique smuggling cases.

The most potent weapon therefore to dislodge the Maino clan

[including Rahul and Priyanka] is by exposing their Italian
citizenship. In 1992, Sonia revived her citizenship of Italy under
Article 17 of the Italian Citizenship Law [Act 91 of
1992]. Rahul and Priyanka were born Italian citizens because Sonia
was Italian when she gave birth to them [Italian law based on jure
sanguinis]. Hence, they continue be Italians since they never
renounced it. Both have been traveling abroad on Italian passports.
They may now acquire Venezuela passports since
Rahul's girl friend Veronica is a Venezuelan. That means one more
foreign bahu for us tolerant Indians. The Maino-Gandhis are
certainly getting globalized. So what can patriotic Indians do?

There is an urgent need to document these facts on notarized paper,

for which we need a network in London, Milan, Hongkong and
Venezuela. Those persuaded by my above stated facts and arguments
may join in and help set up this network.

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In her affidavit she claims that 'Lennox Cook School' is an affiliate of
Cambridge University ...........

Here is a response from Cambridge University to Manoj Kaushik :

'Lennox Cook School' Affiliate of Cambridge University

Dear Manoj

The Lennox Cook School in Cambridge is not affiliated to the University. It

is now closed but was once an independent language school.

I hope this clarifys things for you.

Regards
Chloe

On Jun 1 2004, Manoj Kaushik wrote:

To,

The Press Center

University of Cambridge ,

Dear Sir,
With due respect I wish to submit few lines for your kind perusal. I request
you some Clarification regarding affiliation of a school with University of
Cambridge. Recently a person declared in her affidavit that she did a
Certificate course at ;Lennox Cook School ;, University of Cambridge in
1967 . Link to the affidavit upgov.nic.in/election/Aff...G_sc5.html .
Implying that Lennox Cook School is an affiliate of University of
Cambridge .

Later on we learnt that the school is closed and there is some skepticism that
the school is not affiliated to Cambridge University .In this regard we that
you are the correct body to contact for clarification.

I earnestly request you to clarify us how 'Lennox Cook School' is associated

with Cambridge University .

Regards
Manoj Kaushik
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Cambridge university confirms : Sonia's faked her edu qualif
To,
Laura Morgan
Press and Publications Office
University of Cambridge

Dear Laura Morgan

I am sure you are aware of the excitement and curiosity generated in India
regarding the claim of Mrs. Sonia [ Rajeev] Gandhi regarding her studies, at
a language school-Lennox School-affiliated to your University. She swears
in the affidavit [ for getting elected as an MP] that she completed Certificate
of English from Lennox Cook School-University of Cambridge in the year
1965. The fact that the language school was part of Cambridge University
has been contested by other leaders.

Either the said school was part of your University system [ in terms of
recognition] or it was not. I am sure you will agree with me that there
cannot be a third option.

Under the circumstances it would be most appropriate for a prestigious

university like yours, to issue a press statement / clarification in this matter.
Normally, you may not want to issue press statements on many such claims
and counter claims. But in this case, the matter pertains to an important and
highly respected leader of India [ a Commonwealth Country] and the
affidavit and dispute are in the public domain.

I am a professor, for more than two decades at a prestigious business school

n India. If your University does not take cognizance of this important and
serious issue, and fail to bestow the attention it requires, then as an
academician of more than twenty five year standing [ including, as a visiting
Professor at Manchester Business School and at other major US schools], I
will be forced to conclude that your University is not particularly interested
in truthful representation of credentials and perhaps encourages
commonwealth leaders to follow-- suggestio veri suppresio falsi-principle.

I hope for the sake of academic integrity and truthfulness, your university
will issue a press statement at the earliest. I am not a member of any political
party in India and this letter of mine is essentially from an academician for
the purpose of clarification in the light of the debate it has generated in our
country. I am eager that tall leaders of my country are not tarred by
insinuation by irresponsible politicians.

It is also part of a small effort on my part to clean our electoral system which
needs many changes.

I am giving below the copy of the affidavit filed by Mrs. Sonia { Rajeev]
Gandhi before the returning officer for her Parliamentary election held in
May 2004.

Thank you for your time and hope to get a response from your side.

upgov.nic.in/election/Aff...G_sc1.html

upgov.nic.in/election/Aff...G_sc2.html

upgov.nic.in/election/Aff...G_sc3.html

upgov.nic.in/election/Aff...G_sc4.html

upgov.nic.in/election/Aff...G_sc5.html

R.Vaidyanathan
Professor of Finance and control &
UTI Chair Professor and ICSSR National Fellow

-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Morgan [mailto:lam35@cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 1:53 PM
To: Vaidyanathan R
Subject: Re: The Claim of Mrs Sonia Gandhi regarding a degree from
Cambridge University

Thank you for your e mail. The Lennox Cook School in Cambridge is not
affiliated to the University. It is now closed but was once an independent
language school.

Best Wishes
Laura

Dear Ms. Laura Morgan

Thanks for that prompt response. I suppose, you mean, that Lennox school
was never affiliated to the Cambridge University

I suggest you issue a press statement or a press release to set right, the whole
issue- involving our esteemed institution, namely Cambridge University.

I think that would be an appropriate method to set at rest this whole

controversy involving leaders and academicians.

I am delighted that an august institution like Cambridge University is

interested in truth and truth alone, howsoever unpalatable it may be to
political leaders and other non-academicians.

Thanking you and expecting a response

R.Vaidyanathan
Professor of finance and control &
UTI Chair professor &
National Fellow--ICSSR

________________________________
R.Vaidyanathan
Professor of Finance & Control
Indian Institute of Management
Bannerghatta Road
Bangalore--560076
India
Ph:91-80-2699-3086 / 2658-2450 [Ext 3086]
Fax: 91-80-2658-4050
E mail: vaidya@iimb.ernet.in

-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Morgan [mailto:lam35@cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:27 PM
To: Vaidyanathan R
Subject: RE: The Claim of Mrs Sonia Gandhi regarding a degree from
Cambrid ge University

We are not issuing another other than the statement I have already sent you.

Best Wishes
Laura

Dear Ms. Laura Morgan

Thank you for your mail. I hope I can quote your mail to other academic
colleagues for academic reasons-if it is needed. Or use it for class room
purposes to highlight the pitfalls of our electoral system .

I hope you would not have any objection for the same.
I understand [ for professorial clarity] that the said Lennox School was/ is
never affiliated to the Cambridge University.

Thanking you once again for your time and expecting your favourable
response.

R.Vaidyanathan
Professor of Finance and control &
UTI Chair professor &
National fellow --ICSSR

-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Morgan [mailto: lam35@cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:40 PM
To: Vaidyanathan R
Subject: RE: The Claim of Mrs Sonia Gandhi regarding a degree from
Cambridge University

I'm happy for you to use this statement but please credit it to a University of
Cambridge spokesperson rather than me. The Lennox School was never
affiliated to the Cambridge University.

Best Wishes
Laura

Dear Ms. Laura Morgan

Thanks for your response.

I presume you are an official spokesperson of the University . Of course I

will credit the " position" rather than the name of the person.

I still feel a press release from the University will laid to rest this entire
controversy. But--
Thanking you for your prompt response and time.

R.Vaidyanathan

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R.Vaidyanathan
Professor of Finance & Control
Indian Institute of Management
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Bangalore--560076
India
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