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Opinion 20/03/2016. 358. All Members, Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : Majority Bharatiya politicians are corrupt, and their transactions are scandals, since Independence  to till  this  day, Congress leading in this, others to follow!!! except few good Characters! Ref -7.  Bofors scandal : 1980. 1. Introduction :- Haubits FH77 howitzer, of the type around which the Bofors scandal centered. The Bofors scandal was a major political scandal that occurred between Sweden and India during the 1980s and 1990s, initiated by Congress politicians and implicating the Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi and several other members of the Swedish and Indian governments who were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India's 155 mm field howitzer. The scandal relates to illegal kickbacks paid in a US$1.4 billion deal between the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors with the government of India for...

Opinion 19/03/2016. 353. All Members, Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : Majority Bharatiya politicians are corrupt, and their transactions are scandals, since Independence  to till  this  day, Congress leading in this, others to follow!!! except few good Characters! Ref - Scandals after scandals  .... 1.Maruti Scandal (1974) Well before the company was set up, former prime minister Indira Gandhi's name came up in the first Maruti scandal, where her son Sanjay Gandhi was favoured with a licence to make passenger cars. 2. Solanki Exposé (1992) At the World Economic Forum, Madhavsinh Solanki, then the external affairs minister, slipped a letter to his Swiss counterpart asking their government to stop the probe into the Bofors kickbacks. Solanki resigned when India Today broke the story. 3. Kuo Oil Deal (1976) The Indian Oil Corporation signed a Rs 2.2-crore oil contract with a non-existent firm in Hong Kong and a kic...

Opinion 18/03/2016. 348. All Members, Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : Majority Bharatiya politicians are corrupt, and their transactions are scandals, since Independence  to till  this  day, Congress leading in this, others to follow!!! except few good Characters! Ref : 5. Nagarwala scandal : 5. Crime : On 21 May 1971, Nagarwala called Malhotra at the State Bank of India, and imitated then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Nagarwala claimed that the Prime Minister immediately needed Rs 60 lakhs. Some sources report that the money was needed for a "secret mission to Bangladesh", while others report more simply that the money was requested for a "man from Bangladesh". In his later confession, Nagarwala stated that he described it as a "matter of great national importance". Nagarwala further told Malhotra that he should contact the Prime Minister's office at a later date to get a receipt. Malhotr...

Opinion 17/03/2016. 343. All Members, Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : Majority Bharatiya politicians are corrupt, and their transactions are scandals, since Independence  to till  this  day, Congress leading in this, others to follow!!! except few good Characters! Ref : Scandals, one after other .... 4. The 1971- Nagarwala scandal was a fraudulent act in which Rustom Sohrab Nagarwala convinced Ved Prakash Malhotra to withdraw 6 million rupees from the branch of the State Bank of India where he was the head cashier. 1976 | Kuo Oil Deal | During the Emergency, the government-owned Indian Oil Corporation entered a 2.2-cr contract for oil with a company in Hong Kong that turned out to be fictitious, for a kickback. 1987 | Bofors Scandal | The Swedish armaments firm was accused of paying 64 cr as kickbacks to various middlemen including some close to prime minister Rajiv Gandhi to ensure that its gun would be bought by the...

Opinion 16./03/2016. 338. All Members, Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : Majority Bharatiya politicians are corrupt, and their transactions are scandals, since Independence  to till  this  day, Congress leading in this, others to follow!!! except few good Characters! Ref : Scandals, one after other .... 3. Gems Graft 1949: Rao Shiv Bahadur Singh, industry minister, Vindhya Pradesh, was caught taking a bribe of Rs 25,000 for renewing a gem trader's lease on the Panna diamond mines. Singh was jailed for three years and is the only Indian politician to have been convicted for corruption. 4. Cycle Imports , Cycle Parts Racket 1951 ( S.A. Venkataraman, then the secretary, ministry of commerce and industry, was jailed for accepting a bribe in lieu of granting a cycle import quota to a company. Union industry and commerce secretary S.A. Venkatraman awarded the entire imports quota for cycle parts to a single company. He was s...

Opinion 15./03/2016. 329. All Members, Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : Majority Bharatiya politicians are corrupt, and their transactions are scandals, since Independence  to till  this  day, Congress leading in this, others to follow!!! except few good Characters! Ref : 2. The Mundhra scandal – 1950. (US$180,000) Haridas Mundhra :                                                                   Haridas Mundhra : Haridas Mundhra  was a Calcutta-based industrialist and stock speculator who was found guilty and imprisoned in the first big financial scandal of free India in the 1950s. The Mundhra scandal exposed the rifts between the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his son-in-law Feroze Gandhi, and also led to the resignation of India's then fi...

Jawaharlal Nehru Opinion 14./03/2016. 324. All Members, Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : Majority Bharatiya politicians are corrupt, and their transactions are scandals, since Independence  to till  this  day, Congress leading in this, others to follow!!! except few good Characters! 1. Jeep scandal case : - The jeep scandal in 1948 was first major corruption case in independent India. V.K. Krishna Menon, the then Indian high commissioner to Britain, ignored protocols and signed a Rs 80 lakh contract for the purchase of army jeeps with a foreign firm. Corruption allegations : V. K. Krishna Menon, then the Indian high commissioner to Britain, bypassed protocol to sign a deal worth Rs 80 lakh with a foreign firm for the purchase of 200 army jeeps. While most of the money was paid upfront, just 155 jeeps landed,the then Prime Minister Nehru forced the government to accept them. Govind Ballabh Pant the then Home Mini...