Raking up the Italian origin of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh had said her “ruthless” side came from it (Italy) as “no Indian would have treated me” like she did.
“No Indian would treat a man who was loyal to the family for 45 years and who had been very close to her... It’s just not done in India. There is a part (of Sonia) which is ruthless,” Singh said in an interview to Karan Thapar for Headlines Today channel.Asked if that was her Italian part, he shot back, asking what else it can be, adding, “Some part of it is not Indian. Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi will not be like that.”
The former External Affairs Minister also said Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF) was sent to Sri lanka in 1987 by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi without “clear briefings and objectives” and that his lankan policy ended in his assassination.
Singh pointed that former PM Rajiv Gandhi depended wholly on “a team of ignoramuses with inflated egos”. One claimed to be a socialist while one was an inept political “wheeler-dealer” and the third was a meddling nuisance, Singh said. He identified two of them as Gopi Arora and Arun Nehru, both dead, but declined to name the third one as he was very old and the matter was not so important now.