ANATONIA MAINE (SONIA GANDHI)
By dr. g Balakrishnan, phd

Jacob Braude said ?Always behave like a duck ? Keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle with great vigor underneath.? Anatonia Maine did and that way she won the confidence of her mother in law in Smt. Indira Gandhi, our former Prime Minister, who was assassinated by her own thankless body guards like in a coup e?dat, just for her military forces entered in golden Temple as it gave succor to Bindranwale, a disgruntled Sikh whom the forces wanted to catch him alive as he started Kalisthan Movement and eliminated a lot of peace loving Sikhs in the interest of creating a separate state in Punjab state, to advance his own private ambitions to become like Ranjit Singh, the lion of Punjab during British regime. May be the Sikh body guards of Indira Gandhi had similar ambitions? No Sikh believes that body guards are some good Samaritans to be for the benefit of Sikhs. See today a Sikh is the PM of this country and he is a nominated prime minister by Mrs. Anatnio Marine otherwise known as Madam Sonia Gandhi though she was elected as an MP and in fact she was the Leader of her party, (the widow of Rajiv Gandhi who is the eldest son of Smt. Indira Gandhi) but he was also assassinated by an LTTE cadre in 1991, on 21st May.





She was born in a small town near Turin in Italy on 9 December 1946 in ?..She while learning English at Cambridge university of England (UK) met her boy friend in Rajiv. Rajiv was also a student of Cambridge doing his chosen course in Science to ultimately make himself as an airlines pilot, for he had no ambitions in Politics while his younger Sanjay had and in fact Smt. Indira Gandhi was grooming for political succession after her.
But the destiny proved otherwise. Before her second son Sanjay was killed in an air crash and per force she was in the meantime was straining her grand son Rahul Gandhi and he was imbibing her qualities. But in the meantime Smt. Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984.

Per force Rajiv was to wear her mantle and soon he was elected with his party with a thumping majority but unluckily he was assassinated in May 1991 and hence PV Narasimha Rao was nominated by Sonia Gandhi as he was a trusted person in Nehru and Gandhi?s household and he took the position as he was himself an astute politician but when he again inherited the PM?s office since occupied earlier by V P Singh who made India virtually empty of finances and PV Narasimha Rao has to make a strategic plan to get the treasury to run the 5 year term and he took in his cabinet Dr. Man Mohan Singh, a former Governor of Reserve Bank of India as Finance Minister though he was not elected as an MP at that time.

Soon the PM PVN devised a plan to take a large IMF loan to meet the contingency of funds and also that means IMF was insisting India should become Market driven economy and this proposition he accepted but yet heart of hearts PVN never wanted dismantle Mixed economic system touted by Nehru was obvious reasons that India should not become a country in any block floated at that time as India wanted to be completely non aligned with any power blocks. So he wanted to pay back all IMF loan in quarterly tranches and he did pay 2 or 3 tranches in his regime but his government could not win next elections.

In the meantime during his period he never fully opened the economy but yet the economy was moving ahead but BJP wanted to come to power and it did all kinds of ?tantrums? (strategies) to dislodge PVN?s government and it did achieve and Congress preferred to become opposition as it did not have enough number of members to form government.

In the meantime members like Pawar, Sangma, Madhav Rao Scindia, P Chidambaram& others and Kesari, as Congress President did their best to root out PVN?s influence in Gandhi?s family and hence he relegated to nothing and yet he died as a congress man.




Had he continued the economic growth might have been made possible, as he was a great strategist proved in Andhra politics and that made Smt. Indira Gandhi to get him to central government and he held all kinds of important portfolios and thus gained a powerful grip and he became adept in running national governments.

Had he been there in government, he would have maintained growth and India would have remained not insulated like today and perhaps we would not have suffered reverses in economies, as he had uncanny knack of keeping with him very capable brains in Dr. Man Mohan Singh, Chidambaram, Madhav Rao Scindia and others in bureaucrats people like Montek Singh Aluwalia as finance secretary