Shameful Sonia

What do all these people have in common - Hillary Clinton, Michael Brown, and Sonia Gandhi? Well they have earned a spot in the hall of shame and club of elitists without much effort. Whether you run for congress or Parliament it doesn’t matter, but should have you fudged your resume if you want to make it big in life. Is that the basic qualification to run for senate?

There is count of perjury against Sonia Gandhi (Perjury under section 177 of the IPC and Section 125A of the RPA (1951). When asked about the charge, Mrs. Gandhi in her reply to the Lok Sabha Speaker said it was a typing error. Wow! Such a frivolous explanation? Don’t you have to take responsibility for what you fill and file? Certainly not if you are a politician.

Why do people pad their resumes? Is it a fashion statement? Or is it a universal trend? Is it ethical? Why do we let them go scot-free?

When it comes to politics no one worries about ethics. It is one profession/business where no one questions you about your background, qualifications and pedigree. Isn’t it all about power, chair, amassing wealth, and pedaling personal agenda? Sonia had no big background and for her to make it big in politics she had just two trump cards - “Gandhi” for a last name and cashing in on sympathy wave after her husband death.

If you did the same in corporate world and if caught you would be asked to leave, but in the political world filled with perpetual criminals, thugs and liars there is no reprimanding the guilty. This certainly doesn’t speak high of a person who has Gandhi attached to her last name. May be it is time for her to let go of the last name.

Is it a proud moment for the University to confer Honorary Doctorate on Mrs. Sonia in the wake perjury and dishonor she has brought to herself and the Gandhi family? May be they should reconsider the idea of conferring the honorary degree.

Here is the excerpt from Indian Express Sep 5, 2008 – Chennai Edition

A claim In the affidavit filed as a candidate before the Rae Bareli Returning Officer during the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, Sonia Gandhi claimed that she had got a “Certificate in English Language” from University of Cambridge (UK). In 1999, in her biographical data given under her signature to the Lok Sabha Secretariat and published in the Parliament’s Who's Who, she had made the same claim.

The petition Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy moved the Allahabad High Court and subsequently the Supreme Court, alleging that Sonia Gandhi had committed ‘perjury’ by filing a wrong affidavit. The SC dismissed the plea saying, “Should the SC go into all the affidavits to find out if they are false or not. Further investigation is not possible into a stale issue.…” The truth Sonia attended an interpreter’s school where she studied English, French and Russian. This was followed by a two-year certificate course in English language at Cambridge city in the UK. Sonia in her reply to the Lok Sabha Speaker said it was a typing error.

For lot more controversy and juice on this issue read Mr. Sundaram on News Today - http://newstodaynet.com/col.php?section=20&catid=33&id=10433