Big Tax Crackdown: MHA Orders Probe Into Allegation On Rajiv Gandhi Foundation's Chinese Funding

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday announced that it has set up an inter-ministerial committee to probe various violations by Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust and Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust.
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[baheusa]

Rajiv Gandhi died on 21st May, 1991
Rajiv Gandhi Foundation was founded on 21st June, 1991
A grieving wife was able to incorporate a trust within 30 days from the date of death of her husband.

In those days, any Trust or Section 25 Company (now it is Section 8 Company) took more than a month to be founded. It is possible that due to the name and influence that it carried, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation would have taken a bit lesser, but not less than 20-25 days. However, it is intriguing that even before the ashes of her husband had cooled down, she was able to discuss the Trust Deed and get in people to sign the documents. I am not churning any conspiracy theory that the idea of foundation was created before the death of Rajiv Gandhi. But it is unimaginable that Sonia could initiate all this and also get it done within a month even when she supposedly had no power and no inclination in public life, as is widely publicised and what people are made to believe. Even a business family creates a trust in memory of their patriarch / matriarch / founder atleast a few months after the death of the said person. Getting the NGO registered exactly 30 days after the death of Rajiv Gandhi is intriguing for reasons I have listed above and also shatters the myth that Sonia was not interested in power.

This is further reinforced when in his maiden budget speech on 24th July, 1991 (yes 1 month and 3 days after date of formation of Rajiv Gandhi Foundation) Manmohan Singh allocated Rs. 100 crores to RGF. How can that happen so quickly, if the widow of the former PM was grieving and not interested in politics or power or public life? Budget making process takes atleast a month. How could a grieving widow pull all strings and influence the FM and PM to transfer Rs. 100 crores of public money to her personal fiefdom, if she was then away from politics, power, and public life?

This is more than what meets the eye.

[sajimenon]

the Govt must not drag on with such sensitive cases...there must be early decisions.

[connectkousik]

Same enquiry should taken in west bengal TMC fund and their MP, MLA.. fund also.... how they pay 2-3 lacs per club... is it their money no its tax payers money.. most corrupted party and now hole state also.. sorry to say past 34yrs cpim looted bengal and now TMC but no enquiry is going on.... why central is silent... why sarada, rose valley accuse freely going here and there... some r MP also...

[Samaneethi-mm]

don't use Gandhi family vetkamaga ulladu say/write soniya, Raghul,Priyanka Vadra family.

[rawat]

Jobs, Petrol and Hospitals nahi chahiye ....Hame investigation chahiye

[yusufz]

nothing will come of this as is the case with every other case the bjp has filed against their opponents. BJP is just trying to score political points ahead of the Bihar elections