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"That helps the Italians," the hard life of Sonia Gandhi

"We suspect that the hooks Italian Sonia Gandhi were behind the attempts to release the two

Sonia Gandhi at a memorial of her husband Rajiv (AFP)

NEW DELHI - When the world, to our regret, Italy conjures images between clich and

caricature, a fan of Italian pizza and mandolin, chant-Zoff Gentile-Cabrini and so on, in India

the beautiful country has to deal the factor Sonia-ji.

Sonia Gandhi, president of the Indian National Congress party (Inc) , twelfth in the overall

ranking of Forbes powerful in the world - sixth among women - is Indian citizen since 1983,

but for everyone here in India remains "the Italian" feature from connotations accusatory

back strongly in vogue in the last few months of friction for the story of the sailor. Founded

in Veneto in 1946, Antonia Maino anagrafe, after a childhood spent in Orbassano, Piedmont,

he moved to Cambridge to study English.

While working as a waitress in a greek restaurant in the mid-'60s, he met a young Indian

writing the prestigious university. This is Rajiv Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister

of India at that time. Like a fairy tale romance blossoms and, against the advice of the most

important political dynasty in the Indian subcontinent, the two marry and move in

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apartments ministerial mother-in-law. It was 1968.

For a series of tragic events in the '80s and '90s have involved the unfortunate Nehru-

Gandhi family - her brother Sanjay died in a plane crash, Indira and Rajiv in two terrorist

attacks - Sonia Gandhi happens to be the heir designated to carry on the family tradition of

politics, becoming president of the main Indian political party in 1998.

Since then, despite having led the Inc in a variety of electoral success and being according

to many the puppeteer behind the scenes of government Singh, Sonia Gandhi has had to

constantly defend themselves against accusations of favoritism and xenophilia Italic at the

expense of the Indian population.

Emblematic of the reaction of the opposition at the dawn of diplomatic incident between

India and Italy for the fate of Maximilian Latorre and Stephen Pool, the two officers of the

Italian Navy on remand in Kerala for 10 months. When in April the two governments

seemed to have reached an agreement for the return of Italian soldiers, the result of

diplomatic pressure of the Monti government, the local government of Kerala objected

strongly, defeating the timid attempts to close a case of Delhi International embarrassing.

At that time, one of many, the leader of the Communist Party of India - Marxist VS

Achuthanandan told the press: "We suspect that the hooks Italian Sonia Gandhi are behind

the ongoing attempts to release the two Italians from the central government." Position

shared by most of the public, which the local media has been unleashed invective against

the "Italian", suggesting sarcastically in Rome to get in touch with Sonia Gandhi for a return

of sailor by Christmas.

In the same vein the criticisms made by Bharatyia Janata Party (BJP), a Hindu Conservative

Party, during the trial for the introduction of the reform of Indian supermarkets. Recently

passed in parliament, the new law will allow corporations like Wal-Mart and Tesco to

operate in the Indian market. Narendra Modi, chief minister of the state of Gujarat known

for its nearby locations all'ultranazionalismo of ' Hindutva (the concept of Hindu supremacy

in the subcontinent married fundamentalist movements pseudofascisti Indians), during a

rally in September asked the government indirectly Singh: "How many Italian entrepreneurs

will benefit from? How many Italian entrepreneurs are ready to invade India and take over

our desks vegetables? .

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Modi, favorite for the next Conservative nomination in the national elections of 2014, is

not a loose cannon. Its outputs very specious and inconsistent against Italy - data in hand,

no major group has suggested our national investment in Indian supermarkets - are taken

on an electorate Hindu systematically bombarded by innuendo and conspiracy theories

against Sonia Gandhi. Since appointment as president, the choice of Sonia-ji at the helm of

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the INC - the party of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of

independent India - has been heavily criticized by conservatives of the BJP and the rest of

Hindutva formations . For them, the rise of Sonia Gandhi in Indian politics - not only foreign,

but women and Catholic - is still a "national disgrace."

It must be said that the personal story of Gandhi in the past was not particularly clear. At

the end of the 90s in India exploded the scandal of the Bofors case, where Rajiv Gandhi and

other leaders of the INC received bribes in the margin of the purchase of arms by the

Swedish company Bofors AB. Between the people involved, the figure of Ottavio Quattrocchi,

then representative of Snamprogetti in India, an intermediary between Gandhi and Bofors.

Quattrocchi, according to the Indian press, was entered in the space of Gandhi thanks to

the friendship between his son and the two children of Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi, Rahul and

Priyanka, now both the INC politicians. According to the indictment the money received in

return for the favor, more than $ 11 million, would be deposited in a series of bank accounts

in Switzerland. For more than 20 years after the events, investigations are still in progress.

But the Bofors deal is only the tip of the iceberg of resentment against Sonia Gandhi

contours characterized by very racist. A constant threat that the president of the INC has

tried in every way to curb locked into a regime of strict confidentiality. Benjamin Christmas,

matching historical India for the Ansa currently sent to China, said: "I approached several

times with various excuses, turning to her in Italian and English. He told me once only, in

English, 'Sorry, I can not talk to you'. " Christmas According to the myth of '"Italian

connection" between Sonia Gandhi and Italian businesses, cyclically slogan used by the BJP,

has absolutely no parallel in reality, "Quattrocchi is the only Italian to have been helped by

Indira and, perhaps, Rajiv. Certainly not by Sonia, who at that time was just 'a wife and

mother.' "

Facts which unfortunately does not help to dispel the halo conspiracy built around Sonia

Gandhi, who in turn has made every effort to be accepted by the Indian population: as

strictly sari, speaks Hindi fluently, travels often - despite his Catholic faith - the religious

ceremonies held in the main Hindu temples in the country. An effort thwarted by the

continuing power of the myth of "foreign". The leading expert in the field by the name of

Subramanian Swamy, 73, leader of the Janata Party. Some years ago, in a burst of creativity,

he managed to compile a pamphlet dedicated to the destruction of the image of Sonia

Gandhi titled "Do you know your Sonia?". In the paper, r eperibile online , Swamy seeks to

clarify some "dark" in the life of Antonia Maino. Parts of the book, although suggestive, but

lack of any reference to evidence beyond the word of the same Swamy, which outlines the

network of international relations Sonia Gandhi including the KGB, Hamas and the

Palestinian liberation movements, Saddam Hussein and the Tamil Tigers , terrorists

responsible for the attack on the Sri Lankan husband Rajiv.

In the face of 30 years of attacks of this kind , the strictest of confidence held by Sonia

Gandhi's really hard to blame.

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Comments

Posted by: irene Farmer March 20, 2013 - 09:22

I know that with all the troubles that there are now between 'Italy and India, my request can' seem

trivial, but I'm an old Italian lady and unfortunately I need a carer. Three times I asked for a visa for

Italy to Mr. Indian friend of mine for ten years, and three times I 'was denied. You, Mrs Sonia

Gandhi, can 'help me get a visa? Are at your disposal for any information that can be used. PS All

this would be in compliance with the Italian law and also have a salary, all set. Thank you very

much Irene Massaro via P. Nenni N 20 00036 Palestrina Rome Italy



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Posted by: Henry Enriquo January 5, 2013 - 23:07

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Nationalism is the leading cancer of 'humanity.

Posted by: Alessandro March ... January 5, 2013 - 21:07

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It is an old story, repeated and increasingly fueled by nationalists.

too Zita of Bourbon-Parma, wife of Charles of Habsburg, the last emperor of Austria-Hungary, was

accused of being "Italian" and the attempts of Charles to end the First World War were regarded

as the result the evil influence of his wife and of awareness on the part of the Emperor that

everything was falling apart. Who was right we saw then.

Posted by: Sandi Stark January 6, 2013 - 11:56

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Dear Alexander, Charles I wanted peace because he was a "half holy" so that they did so

blessed, not because "everything was going to hell." Of course, he also went "to hell" but not

in the spring of 1917 when exploded the "case Sisto" and left the Royal and Imperial

sputtanamenti on his person as well as the august Consort. In April 1917 the UK was about to

hoist the white flag because of the trend of submarine warfare to naval traffic, the victory was

never close to the Central Powers as at that moment. Charles was peace regardless of the

trends Carlist war and all the literature confirms this.

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