Friends, it is human nature to forget the things which do not concern them. What happened five/six decades back in Indian political history, how many people remember? In today’s blog, I am writing about a person whom we know as RAJIV GANDHI.
Thank god, there was no social media, otherwise he would have proven himself a bigger Pappu than his son Rahul Gandhi.
Rajiv Gandhi has only one qualification, that he was the son of Indira Gandhi & Feroze Gandhi, and the grandson of our first PM Jawaharlal Nehru. In today’s blog, friends, you will read about how a person like Rajiv Gandhi became the Prime Minister of our country.
Rajiv Gandhi was not at all good at studies. After studying at Doon School, he went to study engineering at Trinity College (Cambridge) in Britain. Here, he met Italian citizen Antonio Maino (whom we know today as Sonia Gandhi). For the next four years, he was romancing Antonio Maino and hardly concentrated on studies, with the result that he was thrown out of the college. In 1966, he took admission in Imperial College, London, in mechanical engineering. But here also he failed in the first semester, and left the college and came back to Delhi, as by then his mother had become the PM of India.
Then, in Delhi, he joined the Delhi Flying Club and started learning to fly planes. By 1970, with the push of Indira Gandhi, he joined Indian Airlines as a Commercial Pilot for Avro-type planes; he was not certified to fly Boeing planes.
In late 1971, when the Indo-Pak war happened, the Indian Army and Indian Air Force requested logistic support of commercial pilots from Air India and Indian Airlines; all the pilots gave their consent except Rajiv Gandhi, who went on leave and took shelter in the Italian Embassy along with Sonia Gandhi (by then he was married to Sonia)
Indira Gandhi came back to power in early 1980, and by that time, Sanjay Gandhi , the younger son of Indira had also joined politics. But Sanjay Gandhi died in a private plane crash in the mid-1980s. Indira Gandhi forced Rajiv Gandhi to leave Indian Airlines and asked him to join politics.
Congress Party made Rajiv Gandhi Prime Minister after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. The next day, what happened is the darkest chapter of Indian history. As Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards, Congressmen, with the instigation of Rajiv Gandhi started lynching Sikh community members, and it was a massacre. More than three thousand Sikhs were killed in two days in many parts of the country.
Rajiv Gandhi took the revenge (through Congressmen) of her mother’s assassination by murdering thousands of innocent Sikhs. He justified Congressmen’s action by saying that “ When a big tree falls, then there are tremors”.
He, on his advisors’ advice, declared an early election, and in sympathy votes Congress Party won 400+ Lok Sabha seats. This brutal majority in the parliament was often misused by PM Rajiv Gandhi.
In 1985, the Supreme Court in Shah Bano’s case gave the verdict that even a divorced Muslim woman is entitled to maintenance from her husband. What happened afterwards took everyone by surprise. Rajiv Gandhi used his brutal majority in the Parliament and overturned the SC’s decision, and a bill was passed that the Muslim community is bound by their Sharia Laws.
When the Bhopal Gas tragedy happened, he helped Union Carbide Chief Warren Anderson leave India after negotiations with the US government. It has been said that during the same time, some relation of Sonia Gandhi was in a US prison (on serious drug charges). In quid pro basis that person was deported from the USA to Italy, and Anderson was allowed to go safely to America.
Rajiv was totally zero in international affairs, and he did not know the armed forces’ strength. Due to his foolishness, the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) went to Sri Lanka (what was his interest in sending IPKF to Sri Lanka to fight LTTE), and this resulted in the death of about 1400 and injury of 3000 army men. He is the only Indian PM who was attacked by a Sri Lankan army soldier in Sri Lanka.
In the end, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber in May 1991 in Tamil Nadu during an election campaign.
In 1989, the Bofors scandal happened. During the investigation, it was revealed that Ottavio Quotracchi, who was very close to Sonia Gandhi’s family, was directly involved in kickbacks, and he used to stay in Sonia/Rajiv’s residence, i.e., the PM’s residence.
In 1991, a Swiss magazine called ‘Schweize Illustrierte wrote that Rajiv Gandhi had 2.5 billion Swiss Francs in his account in Switzerland Bank. In 1992, there was a report in ‘The Times of India’ and ‘The Hindu’ that Rajiv Gandhi was regularly given money by Soviet Secret Service, KGB. In 1994, the KGB Chief confirmed that after Rajiv Gandhi’s death, the money was given to Sonia Gandhi and her children.
Now if you analyse all the above, you will notice that this person, who had limited intelligence, harmed the nation in many ways:
- By killing thousands of innocent Sikhs.
- Helped in absconding, the main culprit of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy.
- He ruined the lives of Muslim women.
- He received kickbacks in defence deals.
- He was an agent of the KGB from whom he received money.
- He was instrumental in the death of 1400 soldiers of the Indian Peace Keeping Force.
And the Congress Government later awarded this person the highest civilian award, Bharat Ratan’.
Anil Malik
Mumbai, India
28th April 2026.