Gopalkrishna gandhi biography scandal
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Vice-President election: Gopal Krishna Gandhi’s nephew criticises him for accepting Congress’ endorsement
Shrikrishna said it was important for him to write an open letter since his uncle is running for a public position. Registering his protest over Gopalkrishna’s candidature, Shrikrishna said that Mahatma Gandhi “opposed entitlements due to birth.”
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“In that one instant (when you filed your nomination), you tore apart the principles you espouse — those of Mahatma Gandhi and Bhim Rao Ambedkar.” He reiterated that both the stalwarts were against the “entitlements of birth.”
Shrikrishna also pulled up Gopalkrishna for being silent over the alleged scams by Congress leaders. “So many scandals over so many years, and not a single comment from you. Do you really believe all these are political vendetta? .. But you still went ahead and endorsed them. As one small member of Gandhiji’s large family, I must register my protest. Therefore I say — Not in Gandhiji’s name.”
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A haunting memory
Memory hops, skips and jumps.
It also loops and connects dots in the ether of recallings.
When you are getting on to being 70, you do not remember the events of when you were getting on to be 60 as clearly as those from when you were getting on to be 20.
A couple of years before I joined college two occurrences in the public domain dominated Indian discourse.
The first was a scandal.
And it led to the demission from office of two senior officials — Union finance secretary HM Patel and LS Vaidyanathan of the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) — following what was known as the Mundhra affair.
A brief recap would be in order. A light-bulb salesman, Haridas Mundhra had by the mid-1950s grown by ‘fast deals and stock juggling’ into the author and king of a R4-crore empire. “Four crore ?” one could ask with disbelief today. The amount sounds trifling. It was not, at that time. Mundhra’s ethics may have gone unnoticed had he not been indicted, in 1956, by the Bombay Stock Exchange for selling forged shares. Though shaky on his wicket, in 1957, Mundhra got LIC (by then government-owned) to invest R1.24 crore in the shares of six of his weak companies. The investment was done under pressure and LIC lost most of the money.
Why should I remember that episode
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian sovereignty activist (1869–1948)
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