LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Insult to Supreme Court

This refers to Jayalalitha?s opposition to Sonia Gandhi becoming Prime Minister because she is a ?foreigner?! In making the somersault from her written consent to support Sonia Gandhi through her letter of 21.04.1999 addressed to the President, Jayalalitha has proved her non-creditworthiness in public life.

Politics apart, it is an insult to the Supreme Court which had decided in favour of Sonia Gandhi as an Indian citizen. Raising of such issues harms Indian position in diplomatic circles where it had a cause to stand in favour of Mahender Choudhri as Prime Minister of Fiji. Indian politicians must realize that people of Indian origin have not only settled in large numbers in many countries but also have been able to reach top posts there. In the present era of global harmony, raising such issues is against our own interest.

Rather it should be other way round. Politicians who get their children get migrated to other countries after country?s resources are spent on them, should be expelled from public life.

- Madhu Agarwal,
1775, Kucha Lattushah,
Dariba, Delhi

 

Passing the Buck

The BJP leaders are putting the blame on the Congress Party for the problem of Jammu and Kashmir and are sheilding their futile efforts in finding a solution. Weather it was K.C. Pant who was sent for peace talks to J&K or Shri Jethmalani, the Congress Party was not consulted. If the J&K Democratic Party leader Shabir Shah has refused to participate in the Assembly elections, it is the BJP which should be blamed and not the Congress Party.

- Kanahiyalal Sagarwara,
Tikamgarh,
Madhya Pradesh

 

Valuable Service

Let me congratulate you for efforts you are putting forth in encouraging the Congress leaders and cadres alike across the country through attractive and meaningful write-ups on our party activities, interviews and news items in the Congress Sandesh. The magazine is playing a vital role in bringing the valuable message of the Congress president, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, and other prominent leaders of our party, indeed.

- R. Laxman Yadav,
Gen. Sec.,
Hyderabad City Congress

 

People Accepted Her

The place of birth alone cannot be taken as the criteria to describe a person as a foreigner. Was our great leader Maulana Azad, who was born in Mecca, not an Indian? Was it not the great soul like Mother Teresa, born in Europe, not an Indian? Yes, I am talking about the issue raised against Sonia Gandhi of not being an Indian by Jayalalitha and LK Advani and their coterie.

The Supreme Court has once and for all gave its verdict of Sonia Gandhi being a citizen of India. And she was accepted by the people electing her as a Member of Parliament when she was already the president of the Congress Party and her becoming the Prime Minister was possible.

If birth alone is taken as the criteria to describe a person as a foreigner then people like Deputy-PM LK Advani and Madan Lal Khurana and scores of others who were born in Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, etc; but currently holding high political positions in India should also be declared foreigners.

What is important in the global culture is not where a person is born but what is the person?s contribution. Finally it is for the people to decide.

- Baldeo Singh,
Vikas Puri, New Delhi

 

Sandesh,
Keep It Up!

The publication of Congress Sandesh by the Congress party is timely and appropriate. The pictures on the Cover and Back pages are charming and attractive. The letter to Congress workers written by our party president, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, on Godhra, Ahmedabad and Gujarat affairs reflects the present awkward position of the Centre.

The cartoon pages are very interesting. Mr. Praveen Davar?s article on the Dandi March launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930 is very useful to our Congress youth, to know about the significance of the day and the idea behind it. The AICC Diary and the Congress Sessions are very useful reading material for grassroot workers. The standard of the journal is good and useful. I sincerely and fondly hope that the present pattern of the journal will be continued.

- C. Thangavelu,
FFTC, South Melapatti,
Kovilpatti Taluk, TN