Abhishek Ranjan

A controversy has erupted over Mrs Sonia Gandhi’s memoirs. She has shared many emotional moments of her life. Every 1 has a right to do so. But following 5 episodes raise serious questions over her credentials, rather nationalist credentials: 1. Her attempt to bring the utterly divisive Communal Violence Bill in the Parliament in 2011-2013 that treated majority Hindus as default culprits & Muslims & SC/ST as default victims thus dividing country along communal lines & create situation for another Pakistan. It faced severe opposition from not just the BJP but from within Congress also. 2. Her failed bid to bring a law to give reservation to converted Dalit Christians & Muslims in 2010. Christians & Muslim religious leaders have always justified conversion saying their’s are egalitarian religions which don’t discriminate on basis of caste & that is the reason why conversions of Dalits to Christianity & Islam are justified. In that case why converted Dalits should get reservation in jobs & education? The move was against the spirit of the Constitution. This move also failed because it faced opposition from BJP as well from within the Cong. 3. Allowing the Hindu terror theory to spread allegedly at the behest Deoband proprogandists & selling even the Pakistan sponsored 2008 Mumbai terror attack as an act of RSS which virtually proved that even Pakistani elements were involved in propoganda of Hindu terror theory. 4.  Her act of virtually handing over the control of controversial Hindu-Muslim issues to the radical Deoband school & trying to shield the killers of the 59 Ram Sevaks at Godhra in 2002 at the behest of Deoband strategists. 5. Stuffing the extra-constitutional National Advisory Council during UPA Govt tenure with known anti-Hindu & pro-Muslim activists. In all these decisions of the Cong Party, Mrs Sonia Gandhi & Rahul Gandhi were the prime movers. This clearly shows the difference between Sonia-Rahul’s Cong Vs the Cong of Rajiv Gandhi who would have most probably not allowed the above decisions. During Rajiv Gandhi period the Cong party was Muslim-leaning but during Sonia-Rahul’s tenure it had become the B team of Muslim League. The self acquital tone of the book would have changed had she dealt on these issues honestly. In fact Mrs Sonia Gandhi has a lot of Prayaschit (atonement) to do if she wants to prove herself as devoted Italian Bahu of Bharat.