Sonia Gandhi's Prime Ministerial Controversy

Mr. Raghunandan, Congress leaders already say Sonia Gandhi gave up her chance to become

prime minister and made a sacrifice. That great self-sacrificing figure

also took the initiative in forming Telangana, Congress leaders say Sonia Gandhi

did. So, these half-baked claims

being made by these respected

elders, I want to say one thing to all of them.

Sonia Gandhi did not give up the post of prime minister of this country.

In 2004, after the Congress Party and the UPA

coalition won, she went to the then president and said, "Tomorrow, I will

take the oath of office. Look, this many MPs support me,"

and submitted a list.

After submitting it, she arranged private planes for relatives coming from Italy

for her relatives

and invited them, saying, "Come, come, I am taking the oath tomorrow."

She called them.

The auspicious time was fixed.

Then, as a Rajya Sabha member of the Bharatiya Janata Party,

Mr. Subramanian Swamy, who served, with Sonia Gandhi's swearing-in tomorrow,

that is, today at two p.m., goes to the Indian President's office

and submits an objection petition saying he wants to meet the President.

The petition was submitted on this issue, which all the people of this country

should please understand. I humbly seek this discussion before the people

of the country

and am stating this point. There are bilateral agreements

between India and Italy. Similarly, there are agreements between India and Pakistan,

and between India and Bangladesh.

and between India and Bangladesh.

Our country has bilateral treaties with various foreign countries.

When Subramanian Swamy told the then President what was written in that bilateral treaty,

then the President of India refused,

the President of India refused Sonia Gandhi as the Prime Minister of this

country. I'll tell you why, I'll make just one point and finish.

If Indian citizens are born and raised in Italy and acquire Italian citizenship,

they can contest for anything in Italy.

But for the post of President of Italy, we are ineligible.

This is what they have written in Italy. They say, "And vice versa."

And the same law applies to India as well, vice versa.

This is written in that bilateral treaty between Italy

and India.

There was a bilateral agreement, brother. Taking a copy of that agreement, Subramanian

Swamy

said there, "She can contest for MLA, she can be an MP,

she can be a Governor,

she can be a minister. But she must not become this country's Prime Minister."

That clause, this is the clause, in the agreement between

the two countries,

when Mr. Subramanian Swamy took it and placed it before the then President,

Then, due to unavoidable circumstances, the elder who came as a middle way,

the compassionate Dr. Manmohan Singh became the Prime Minister of this country.

Sonia Gandhi did not make that sacrifice because she wanted to or at Congress's request.