GIVE UP GANDHI's NAME!

Gandhi might be a surname for some. But the whole world knows only one Gandhi and that is our Mahatma Gandhi. His name is the next to any God we worship.

We do not want the usurpers to use his name. Sonia's father in law Feroze was originally named 'Ghandy' but changed its spelling to Gandhi before marrying Nehru's daughter Indira. Indira by herself was next to nothing. But she acquired name and fame because she was daughter of Nehru and had a surname Gandhi! Ask any villager even today what was the relationship of Indira and Mahatma Gandhi, he will tell she was the daughter of Mahatma Gandhi!

Feroze could not get along with father in law Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India. He was a dedicated nationalist. Feroze was creating  embarrassing situations for Nehru, successfully exposing nationwide scandals in the largest public sector undertaking LIC, TELCO, etc. He could not get along with the Western oriented way of living and thoughts of Nehru and his daughter Indira. Ultimately they fell out and Indira started living with her father till his death. How can she keep the name of her husband whom she deserted when he was on death bed for the last two years of his life?

Indira used the name Gandhi for increasing her popularity by subterfuge. Faced with stalwarts like Morarjibhai Desai, Ambedkar, Sardar Patel, Rajagopalachari, Azad, Munshi, etc. she was nothing except the daughter of Nehru. She was just 30 when India became independent and had not participate in the independence struggle. In fact she spent all her young days in England studying and returned to India only because just before she could complete her studies, the World War II started.

How come someone having contributed nothing towards Independence struggle or having been part of the subsequent government, became so powerful? Because she was taking care of her father as his personal assistant, she was seen a lot everywhere with him. She was fair complexioned and all ducked up excellent and modern dress had a beautiful figure and was quite attractive also and became familiar to people. An internal struggle for power in Congress a couple of years after Nehru's death landed her in the PM's chair in 1966 because most of the senior leaders had quit Congress to form their own party.

After Mahatma Gandhi, it was Indira Gandhi who made the august name Gandhi, acquired by her by chance and not by merit. When she was killed in 1984 she was detested by one and all for the Emergency she imposed in India, though she could come back to power more by hook and crook.  Even today if at all some people don't abuse her, it is because she is a 'Gandhi'!

Sonia has no right to cheat people with this deception. She rightly said she was the daughter-in-law of Indira Gandhi. She is as deceitful as Indira was. The only difference is while Indira was after fame (she mistook being famous is tantamount to being notorious!) Sonia is after money! Lucre! While Indira at least had genealogy on her side, this usurper does not even have it. I do not think Sonia has even once uttered the name of her late father in law. Then how can she hoodwink people by keeping his name?