Friday, February 9, 2024

Federal Gem - Bharat Ratna

. . . . . was angry with the Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao when his government - in 1992 - decided to appeal against the  Delhi high court's decision, to quash a police complaint  in Bofors gun case, says senior party leader Margaret Alva. 

"What does the Prime Minister want to do? Send me to jail?", snapped the Congress President, when Alva met her. 

"What has the congress government done for me? This house was allotted to me by the Janata party's Chandrashekar government. I am not seeking any favors for myself or my children,  from him," she told the minister who was trying to patch peace.

"She was really angry," says Alva in her autobiography. 

Hindustan Times,     July 16, 2016

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