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'Sharad Pawar has much more of a legitimate claim to the PM's post then Sonia'
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Mon, 24 May 1999 23:15:36 EDT Pretty sickening in the stomach. She has such an ego and these Congressis are asking for her leadership. It will be shameful if the Congress and the people accept her as their saviour.
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Mon, 24 May 1999 14:56:40 -0700 Sonia has to lead the Congress because the Bofors investigation is coming to an end. With power one can scuttle the investigation into the abyss. Power is money in all Third World countries, otherwise why would a baby sitter who has enough wealth to last for many life times jump into the bandwagon again? The poor of India are to be blamed for seeing only the exterior of the woman without considering the inner person and joining hands to elect the Congress. Pawar is the Indian replacement for Sonia in every way. We have to hope the poor in India make good choices for India.
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Mon, 24 May 1999 17:27:11 -0400 Just how is the Congress planning to maintain democracy in the country when they don't even have the guts to ensure it in their own party? How is the Congress planning to attract thinking adults when it crushes the questions raised against its 'blind-obeisance' policy as a poisonous bug? That is if they have any clue as to what a thinking adult is, considering they behave worse than a bunch of delinquent teenagers (and even delinquent teens have a sense of self-respect, which the Congressis obviously don't subscribe in!) If they think the majority is illiterate and so it won't matter in forthcoming elections, they had better think again -- literacy is no marker of a 'thinking' person, and the vast majority of the Indian populace may be uneducated but not stupid. It's going to take more than 'Soniaji' and her alleged 'charm' to wipe the power-hungry, corrupt face of the Congress clean. Who are these jokers?
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Mon, 24 May 1999 14:19:08 EDT Thank god that the week-long drama is over. Sonia wanted to show Bollywood she can also act like the Lalita Pawar of the Indian film Industry.
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Mon, 24 May 1999 21:20:57 -0400 Excellent news article. Balanced views. As an Indian I feel rather ashamed to see the moral bankruptcy of the Congress (Don't get offended -- my grandfather was and is a staunch Congress person). It's only when you go abroad that you see how each and every son and daughter and relative of the people in power is enjoying himself or herself after looting India's people. We spend billions of dollars every year and it will continue till Indians wake up and see reality. I just pray to God -- may that day come soon. Best wishes to Syed and Archana. Saurabh Agnihotri
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Mon, 24 May 1999 14:40:46 -0700 After reading your article one has to make a few corrections, Pawar is not a Maratha like Shivaji. Secondly, he was sucking up to Sonia till he found out he could never be the prime minister and decided to revolt. Thirdly, he has no morals to lead India. Shivaji never respected Aurangzeb whereas Pawar was licking Sonia's feet all the time. Let not the press make Pawar look bigger than a opportunist who got off the party in the nick of the time.
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Mon, 24 May 1999 11:43:13 -0700 This is all dirty politics. The sole reason why Pawar is upset is because no one talked of his candidature as a PM repeatedly. And that's why he is out of the Congress As Mr Thupe said Pawar had a big hand in the downfall of the Vajpayee government which ultimately means he is the culprit. And he let it happen for the personal ambition of becoming PM. In fact, there is no political leader other than Vajpayee who is accepted as PM from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. All others are tigers in their own home and not accepted as national leaders. Another thing Indians are so used to calling bandhs. What did they achieve by the Baramati bandh? If Pawar was a national leader, why wasn't there a Delhi bandh? Pawar knows no one cares for him outside Maharashtra. Why the Congress won in the recent elections was neither because of Sonia nor Pawar, but because of the misrule of existing governments. Madhav
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Mon, 24 May 1999 11:04:01 -0700 There is nothing wrong with being ambitious or wanting to be the PM. Sharad Pawar has much more of a legitimate claim to the PM's post then Sonia. All the spineless Congressman who are supporting Sonia, are doing so just because they can't stand on their own feet. They have no mass following. [And for Scindia it has been a long tradition of supporting foreigners, eg supporting the British against the Rani of Jhansi]. He can only hope for crumbs he receives by his proximity to Sonia, if she succeeds. At least Pawar has some principles and he can feel the people's pulse. Rajinder Singh
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Sun, 23 May 1999 09:22:36 -0500 It is an eye opener on Sonia by Monu Nalapat, why cannot this write up reach main stream Indians as to the real Sonia who is hiding behind her walls and covering up her true colours of a foreigner. She never had any credentials to hold office and pretends to be a swadeshi Indian. Ken Menen
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Sun, 23 May 1999 08:41:59 -0400 (EDT) Monu Nalapat's article on Sonia is a typical example of journalistic overkill. Facts and figures should be brought to light; but in a more balanced and less vitriolic manner. Obvious bias diminishes the writer as much as the target. Shankar Nair
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 06:05:53 EDT I enjoyed the piece on Sonia Gandhi -- it was mature and not petty. I fully agree with the author that Sonia shouldn't hide her Catholicism. I wish for India to have Muslim or a Christian PM. However I do not share his views that Christian missionaries have done so much for 'health and education'. It is much more of a show than anything else. The Left parties' attitude is shameful. How can India even contemplate as PM a woman who is steeped in the Italian fascist-Catholic (I use Catholic in the political sense here) tradition I fail to comprehend. A Chatterjee
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Sun, 23 May 1999 13:50:21 +0530 A column by a man who in the garb of a journalist even fixed appointments for Jayalalitha when the Poes Garden lady was in New Delhi. Now he is talking of ethics and criticising political personalities. Perhaps journalism does facilitate (and felicitate) all these types. Chitra V Raman
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Sun, 23 May 1999 02:57:11 EDT Monu Nalapat's column strikes at the core of the political and personal dilemma each Indian voter faces today: Who deserves to lead India into the next millennium? The founding fathers of America had the foresight to confront this question 200 years ago when the country was ready to be born. The answer was simple. Any president of this country has to be a natural born citizen. This is not an average American's hope or expectation. This is the law and its message is clear. Any citizen of the United States born elsewhere is barred from running for president. Italy may well have similar laws. India on the other hand has never had to confront this question. Obviously, our founding fathers never thought about it. So unlike the Americans, we have no pearls of wisdom in our Constitution. India has no law serving as a guiding light. So Indians are no longer sure what to think or how to feel as the prospect of electing an Italian-born to the highest office of this country looms large. After all, this is a huge decision. Sonia Gandhi, if elected, will represent India. Both at home and abroad. Monu Nalapat has pushed this fundamental question to the forefront of the Indian political conscience. Does an Italian-born Indian citizen have the right to be the prime minister of India? Monu Nalapat has clearly laid the ground rules. If Sonia Gandhi wants to do more than serve as a mere "Gandhi mascot" during elections, she must first speak to the Indian voters in a language they understand. She must speak candidly and openly. She must tell us all about herself, who she is, what she has accomplished for the country so far. She must disclose her religious identity, her political agenda, and a laundry list of the policies she will promote. This is the first step in the right direction. Monu Nalapat's ground breaking column calls for full disclosure about Sonia Gandhi. Gandhi should take up this challenge and comply.
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Sun, 23 May 1999 12:30:28 +0530 The column by Monu Nalapat is absolute rubbish and exposes the level of knowledge required to write such columns.
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Mon, 24 May 1999 20:33:27 EDT I am a product of a missionary school and I am proud of that. I accept the author's view that everyone who attended a missionary school was indoctrinated to accept everything Western as superior. But they also taught me another good quality which I would not have learned in any other institution, that is, to care for people in need. I read the letters to Rediff On The NeT from people all over the world. I see majority of the people talking about patriotism and how unpatriotic it would be to vote for Sonia Gandhi. These people are well to do resident or non-resident Indians who live in decent houses and eat good food. Let me also bring you the views of other major segment of Indians, the poor. As one who had worked with these people for several years I know what their feeling would be on this issue. These people wake up every morning not knowing if they would get enough food to feed their family. For them patriotism is a question of survival. I have heard them say several times that they would have been better off under the British than Independent India. Can we say they are unpatriotic? Or can we question their patriotism? Thomas
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