26/11 And "Myth of Saffron Terrorism" - Part Three

26/11 And "Myth of Saffron Terrorism" - Part Three

Happenings on 26/11...

How Ten Terrorists reached Mumbai...official version.

The journey of 10 Pakistani terrorists started on 23rd November 2008; i.e. three days before 26/11 when the 10 Pakistani terrorists and their support personnel boarded a small boat near Karachi port. They travel to the high sea where all of them were transferred to a container vessel named Al Fouz . This container vessel takes them near Gujarat in the the Indian waters, where the 10 terrorists and their crew were transferred to a Pakistani fishing trawler. The trawler enter Indian waters near Gujarat port and locates Indian fishing trawler "Kuber". The Pakistanis highjack "Kuber, transfer 4 of Kuber's crew member on the Pakistani trawler and leave the main navigator named Tandel on "Kuber". Tandel is asked to navigate towards Mumbai, on which he said, he did not have enough diesel to go to Mumbai. Pakistanis were well prepared for this situation and transferred 6 full barrels of diesel on "Kuber". 

The 10 Pakistani terrorists traveled for two and and a half days on "Kuber". During this travel, terrorists were constantly watching the travel path on GPS to ensure that the boat was going in the right direction. On 26/11 late afternoon, they reached 4-5 miles outside Mumbai coast and they started seeing Mumbai coast outlines. At this point, they stopped "Kuber", inflated their rubber dinghy, attached the propeller engine to it, packed their back packs with arms, ammunitions, communication devices and food supply and jumped onto the rubber dingy to reach Mumbai port.

But before leaving "Kuber" they slit the throat of Kuber's navigator, Tandel so as to wiped out evidence of how terrorists reached Mumbai. They were also instructed to sink "Kuber" and throw away satellite phone before embarking journey in rubber dinghy. But as they were transferring goods on the rubber dinghy, someone saw a big boat approaching towards them with speed and one of the terrorist shouted "Navy". Everyone panicked and quickly jumped on the rubber dinghy, leaving behind satellite phone on "Kuber" and forgot to sink "Kuber". 

Later, this satellite phone and "Kuber" became vital evidence to prove what route these 10 terrorists took to reach Mumbai.  

The terrorists landed at fisherman's colony named "Bhai Bandarkar Colony" in Colaba area of South Mumbai, at around 8.45 PM on 26/11. This area is also known as Badhwar Park. 

What happened after Pakistani terrorists reached Mumbai?

Let's see the map of location where these 10 terrorists got off.

Bhai Bandarkar Colony in Colaba Mumbai.

The terrorist landed near the place marked with red pin in the above map. As you can see, this landing place is inside a gulf and requires precise navigation skills. A small mistake at night time would have taken them into a totally wrong spot. There are quite a few sensitive location near this landing place, like navy Nagar, Army area, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) etc where there is always lot of security. If they had drifted few miles away, they could have been caught by the police. It is a bit surprising to note that they had fed accurate coordinate for landing.

Question - How was it possible for the 10 semi literate Pakistani terrorists to navigate so precisely to the exact landing location, that too in an unknown city and at night time? Or is there a possibility, someone local was helping them to navigate correctly? This aspect, even if was investigated, was never made public by the investigating agencies.

After getting down at the seashore near Bhai Bandarkar Fisherman's colony,  the terrorists started walking towards the main road through the narrow lanes of the densely populated fisherman's colony. Unfortunately, there was India's cricket match going on on the TV and hence most of the people were indoor, glued to the TV and the narrow lanes were deserted. But still, one person got suspicious and asked the terrorists as what they were doing in their colony? One of the terrorists curtly replied in Bumbaiyya Hindi (slang version of Hindi spoken in Mumbai) to mind his own business. These terrorists were taught to speak Bambaiyya Hindi! Later Kasab too confessed that they were taught to speak Bumbaiyya Hindi so that they should easily blend with the local Mumbai people.

Question - If the terrorists were sent to kill people and get killed at the end, then why they were taught to speak Bambaiyya Hindi? Pakistani terrorists had done terrorist attacks in India earlier too but at that time, they were not taught to speak Hindi.  Why they were taught this time? 

The only logical possibility could be, if the terrorists had created a hostage situation, then the Bambayya Hindi speaking terrorists would have disguised authorities as they were Indians. Kasab had confessed that they were instructed to take innocent people as hostage and extend the fear of terror much longer. 

The controversy of the cabs....

Earlier police version said, the ten terrorists paired up and hired FIVE cabs to go to the five target locations. But Sr. Inspector Mr. Ramesh Mahale who was the chief investigating officer for 26/11 attacks has written in his Marathi book, "Kasab Ani Mee" (Kasab and I) that only 8 terrorists hired FOUR cabs to go to 4 locations. The 5th pair used rubber dinghy to reach hotel Trident. Police say, that dinghy later drifted towards the same fisherman's colony where terrorists had landed earlier. The abandoned dinghy was spotted by the fisherman in that area and was handed over to the police.

I really doubt this story because the road distance between where the terrorists landed and the hotel Trident is less than 2 Kilometers. in fact, this distance was the shortest distance amongst all other targets. Hiring a cab was the best possible method to reach hotel Trident quickly. Then why did they use rubber dinghy to go to the hotel Trident? 

Please see the map below showing the distance between two locations.

Distance between Bhai Bandarkar fishrman's colony and hotel Trident

Another important point that does not match the story....

The Hotel Trident is directly facing Arabian sea. If the rubber dinghy was left there for a free drift then it would have drifted into the open sea. But it was spotted inside the gulf, where terrorists had landed earlier. It is highly unlikely that a rubber dinghy left in the open sea would drift inside the gulf!

We do not know the time when this dinghy was spotted by the fisherman and at what exact location hence we cannot say with certainty in either way. But it certainly looks very odd that only one pair used rubber dinghy and others used cabs. But for now, we will go with the official version that FOUR cabs were used.

Cab bombing...

After the terrorists got down from the cab, they left the IED bombs in the cabs. But instead of keeping bombs in all 4 cabs, they kept the bombs only in THREE cabs! After about an hour, two out of the three cabs were completely destroyed in the bomb blast. Police say, the terrorists kept the bombs in the cab so as to create panic in Mumbai. The plan was, when the bombs explode in different parts of Mumbai, public would think there is a large scale attack on Mumbai and panic would set in.

I doubt this theory too because, the intended outcome of such random bombing at night time in south Mumbai was not sure. The bombs could have exploded in a remote place when the cabs are parked at night time.

The first cab was taken to the restaurant Leopold Cafe in Colaba. The bomb in this cab exploded near Mazgoan area killing cab driver and two other ladies on the road.

The second cab was taken to the CST railway station. This bomb exploded in Vile Parle, killing cab driver and a passenger.

The third cab was taken to hotel Taj. But here, the cab driver was suspicious about the passengers. When they got down at hotel Taj, the terrorists left the bag laced with the bomb in the cab. But the alert cab driver spotted the bag immediately and called back the terrorists to take the bag. The terrorists came back and picked up the hand bag pretending as though they had forgotten.

The suspicious cab driver was still watching them walk towards the hotel Taj and noticed, just few feet away the terrorists left the same bag near the police beat post, in front of the hotel Taj. He thought of alerting the police but suddenly heard the burst of gunfire and saw people running crazy on the road. The firing in hotel Taj continued and there was an utter chaos on the road. The cab driver had to wait till police arrived there. He showed the bag to the police and the bomb squad was commissioned to defuse the bomb. A major catastrophe was averted because of alertness from the cab driver.

But later when police tried to search for this cab driver to record his statement, get details of the terrorists and make him a witness, he was never found! The police searched every possible clue but he was never to be found again. He was vanished in thin air.

This whole episode of cab driver at Taj hotel is written in details by Sr. Police inspector Mr. Ramesh Mahale in his book. I am sure, this fact is not known to lot of people.

Question - India's all investigation agencies like Mumbai police, CBI, MI, IB and even RAW were involved in the investigation and still, how come this cab driver was never found? Indian investigation agencies are dam smart and if they decide to crack the case then they would do it at any cost. Then how come all of them could not find this crucial eye witness who saw the terrorists right from the time they landed? This is really very strange.

The fourth cab went to Nariman House (Jewish center). There was no bomb in this cab, nor there is any mention of this fourth cab driver in the police investigation nor his cab was found! This cab driver was never called as a witness in the court. Nobody knows anything about this fourth cab. Suspiciously strange.... why this fourth cab was not bombed?

If the instruction was to plant bombs in the cabs so as to create panic in different parts of Mumbai, then why fourth cab did not have the bomb? Hence I doubt this police theory.

Since only THREE cabs out of FOUR were bombed, I am getting following questions.

Question - Is it not possible that only three cabs were hired and not four? And these three cabs were bombed because the terrorists did not want the cab driver to report involvement of some local person/s who was/were guiding the terrorists? Two cab drivers were killed but the third cab driver survived the bombing but he too disappeared permanently, never to be found again! Was he deliberately made to disappear? This looks very suspicious. Why this angle was never investigated?

Question - Let's talk about the mystery of 4th cab. Is it not possible that 4th cab was never used and some local person drove the pair to the Nariman House in a private car? And this is the reason the fourth cab was never bombed, its driver was never identified and there was no mention of the fourth cab? The Nariman House is not a major tourist attraction in Mumbai. Locating this address in a densely populated residential area would have made it very difficult for the Pakistani terrorists who were strangers in the city. Hence is it not possible, some local person drove them to the address?

Question - Is it possible that the 5th pair too, that went to the hotel Trident was dropped in the same private car? And that is the reason police are saying, no cab was used here and a rubber dinghy was used to reach hotel Trident?

These are very obvious questions and Police had no answers as they never investigated this angle.

This all is very suspicious but there is no police investigation on this. I really doubt these Pakistani terrorists did not get any local help.

Let's Understand what ams and ammunitions terrorists carried from Pakistan.

Terrorists carried following Arms, Ammunitions and other items in their back sack.

Terrorists carried following items with them when they reached Mumbai.These details are given in the book written by Sr. Police Inspector Mr. Ramesh Mahale.

1) AK47 rifle - 1 each

2) Automatic Pistol - 1 each

3) Hand grenades - 8-10 each

4) AK47 magazines - 8 each (each magazine has 30 bullets, total 240 bullets per terrorist)

5) Pistol magazines - 2 each (each magazine has 7 bullets)

6) Khanjar (Indian dagger) - 1 each

7) Dry Fruits - 2 Kg each

8) Indian currency - Rs 4000 to Rs 6000 each

9) Nokia mobile - 1 each

10) Headphones - 1 each

11) GPS - one for the group

12) 8 Kg RDX with IED - 1 each

13) 9 volt battery - 3 each

14) Other small personal items.

If we calculate weight of all these items then it comes to about 25-30 Kg, which in line with what we see in the video of terrorists walking with back sack.

Question - The terrorists fought a fierce gun battle for 68 hours with the agencies. The ammunitions they they carried from Pakistan was not at all sufficient to fight the gun battle for three days, then the question is, where did they get the ammunitions to fight such a long battle? If you see the photos and videos of the destruction, you can realize, this kind of carnage could not be done with the ammunition that they carried from Pakistan.

The answer is given in the book written by Sr. Police inspector Mr. Ramesh Mahale. He writes, the CCTV footage in hotel Taj was showing terrorists going in and out of a room number 630 regularly. The police guessed that the terrorists must have off loaded their ammunitions in that room and that is why they were going in that room to replenish their ammunitions. Later when Navy commandos "Marcos" raided the room, they found ammunitions stored in that room!

See the video of carnage at hotel Taj. It is impossible to do this kind of destruction with 240 bullets, 8-10 hand grenades. Do you think this kind of destruction can happen with the arms they carried from Pakistan?

https://youtu.be/qO3-Z_3X5Pg

Question - Is it not possible that the room # 630 that the terrorists were visiting regularly was already stashed with ammunition prior to the attack? The terrorists were aware about this room and that is why they were frequenting in that particular room.

There were rummers that this room was booked couple of days before 26/11 with a fake ID and someone smuggled arms and ammunitions in this room before 26/11. May be this rummer is false but one thing is sure, terrorists could not have fought 68 hours gun battle with 240 bullets, 8-10 grenades and 4-5 RDX explosives. They must have got replenishment from somewhere but we do not know who did it and how it was done. Police are completely keeping mum on this very sensitive issue. If you ask any arms expert, he will say, it is impossible to fight this kind of war for 68 hours with just a small quantity of ammunitions.

Fake ID's of the terrorists with their Hindu names and Hindu outfit...

When the operation was over, police had nine dead bodies and one arrested terrorist Ajmal Kasab. All of them had fake ID's with Hindu names. The address on the ID was accurate, but no one ever lived there with that name at that address. As a result, police investigation proved that they were fake ID's. But it is interesting to note that all these addresses, which are from the different parts of India were accurately collected by someone! This shows, someone did do a good intel collection of interior parts of India. These details are given in the book written by Sr. Inspector Ramesh Mahale.

The fake names and the address of the Pakistani terrorists were as follows.

1) Ismail Khan (Abu Ismail)

Hindu name - Ramesh Vilas Verma

Address - House # 21/B Mamta Nagar, Nigol Hyderabad, Telangana

2) Imran Babar (Abu Nakasha)

Hindu name - Arjun Kumar

Address - 13/2 S. K. Apartments, Indira Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana

3) Nasir Abu Umar

Hindu name - Dinesh Kumar

Address - 781 Hooda Colony, Saroor Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana

4) Hafiz Arshad - (Abdul Rahaman Bada alias Hayaji)

Hindu name - Raghubir Singh Ranjit Singh

Address - Plot # 673-4V, Ilis Bridge, Ahmedabad, Gujarath

5) Abdul Rahaman Chota (Saquib)

Hindu name - Arun Vikram Sharma

Address - Plot # 36A, Ganga Colony, New Delhi

6) Fahadulla (Gang leader)

Hindu name - Rohit Deepak Patil

Address - 313 S.K. Apartment, Indira Nagar, Vijay Nagar Colony, Hyderabad, TL

7) Ajmal Aamir Kasab (Abu Mujahid)

Hindu name - Sameer Dinesh Choudhary

Address - 254 Teacher’s Colony, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore, Karnataka

8) Soheb (Abu Soheb)

Hindu name - Sudhir Nair

Address - Could not be read because ID card was partially burnt.

9) Javed (Abu Ali)

Hindu name - Kishore Naidu

Address - Could not be read because ID card was partially burnt.

10) Nazir Ahemad (Abu Umer)

Hindu name - Prakash Kumar

Address - Could not be read because ID card was partially burnt.

In all the earlier attacks before 26/11, where Pakistani terrorists were involved, they never tried to take a fake Hindu name. They attacked as a Pakistani terrorists and died as a Pakistani terrorists. Then why they were given Hindu names for 26/11 attacks? This is certainly indicating some sinister conspiracy.

The terrorists wearing saffron wrist bands.....

See the red/saffron threads on Kasab's right wrist. Indicating Hindu identity

Look at Ajmal Kasab's picture taken at the Chatrpati Shivaji Terminus. You can clearly see the saffron color thread on his right wrist. Traditionally, Hindus wear this kind of thread on their right hand. But for 26/11 attacks, all Pakistani terrorists were wearing this thread on their wrist.

Conclusion -

1) It is very clear that Pakistani terrorists were using Hindu names, they were wearing saffron threads and they were speaking Bambaiyya Hindi, shows they were trying to disguise as Hindus. 

When they had come to India to kill innocent people and at the end, they were supposed to get killed...then where was the need to disguise as Hindus?

The reason for this disguise was, police would see Hindu identities, saffron threads on the wrist  on the terrorist's bodies and conclude that these terrorists were Hindus. This would put the blame on Hindus and prove the "Saffron Terrorism" theory floated by the senior UPA ministers and ATS chief Karkare, Param Bir Singh. 

Again, time line is important here. UPA ministers floated the idea of Saffron Terrorism during the first week of Nov 2008 and within few weeks, Pakistani terrorists conduct 26/11 attacks, under the disguise of Hindu identity.

This clearly shows a possible link between UPA ministers and Pakistan for 26/11 attacks!

If Kasab was not caught alive....and if IB had not intercepted live conversation between terrorist and their Pakistani handlers... and as per the plan, if all the terrorists were killed then the blame would have certainly come on the Hindus. 

2) It is difficult to believe that 10 half educated, Pakistani terrorists would enter Mumbai city illegally at night  time by sea, move around the city INDEPENDENTLY like a pro and take entire Mumbai city for hostage for 68 hours. This is unimaginable to do this, without a local help.

3) It is difficult to believe that terrorists fought a fierce gun battle for 68 hours with the limited ammunitions that they had carried from Pakistan. It is possible, they might have got the replenishment of arms and ammunitions after reaching Mumbai. But this part was never investigated.

There were total 7 major attacks in Mumbai on 26/11. The locations of the same are given below.

There are tons of articles, videos and news clips on what happened in these locations on 26/11 hence I will not spend time is elaborating the same

Rather in the next part, I will give very shocking details about how Karkare, Kamte, Salaskar and two constables were killed near Rang Bhawan theater. I will give some disturbing details of what role Police played in these killings and other details that you might have never heard. It may lead to believe, these officer's death was not by fluke but by design. 

See you in Fourth and Last part of this story.

Real Reason Why Pakistan Is Rattled To The Core Because of Abolishing Of Article 370?

The recent unparliamentary statements from Pakistani leadership, right from Imran Khan, Army Chief Bajwa till local body leaders from Pakistan shows Pakistan is rattled, threatened and feeling the real heat because of scrapping of article 370.

On the surface of it it appears, by abolishing article 370, India has unilaterally decided that J&K is no more a disputed territory. Now Pakistan is worried that, J&K which is their struggle for the whole life, and an icon for Pakistan's existence, is wiped out. They also fear that, India by abolishing article 370 has unilaterally converted LOC into defacto international border. 

But is it the only reason why Pakistan is giving statements of extremity, insanity? They are literally threatening the world by saying, if article 370 is not reinstated then there will be a nuclear war.

The question is, why Pakistan should be worried so much about article 370? After all, it was just an administrative correction from Indian side. It was needed to bring equality, parity amongst the population and open new avenues of prosperity. Nothing changed at the ground level for Pakistan. Still they could call it a disputed territory, still they could claim Kashmir as their own and still they could infiltrate terrorists in J&K.   

Then Why Pakistan is So rattled?

The real reason is as follows. Pakistan knows, scrapping article 370 was needed to correct the problems within India but it is not the India's final solution. India will not stop at this. They will capture PoK to integrate entire J&K and that will be the final solution. The prospect of losing PoK is what rattling Pakistan.

But why Pakistan should be worried unnecessarily on this possibility? After all they have an active army of 6.5 million and NUCLEAR capability to protect Pakistan's territorial interests. Pakistan has always used Nuclear capability as a deterrent for lot of bad actions in the past. Pakistan will never give up PoK without a fight and possible use of nuclear warheads. Then why this rhetoric of threats?  

Pakistan is feeling the heat because of couple of reasons.

1) Pakistan's weak economy will not allow Pakistan to fight a conventional war with India for more than 7 days. After that Pakistan's defeat is certain.

2) To counter that, nuclear war is the option but Pakistan knows, nuclear weapons are just a deterrent. They can showcase them as a deterrent but cannot use them. If they use them, then they will be wiped out physically and logically. Hence that is not a real option.

3) International pressure - Pakistan's International standing is so weak that no country in the world except China is ready to stand in support of Pakistan. In recent days, Pakistan did try to internationalize the Kashmir issue but failed miserably because no one except China supported it. China's support is because of CPEC project, which it wants to protect. I will touch upon this point later.

This international apathy for Pakistan and Kashmir is what really rattling Pakistan.

Let's understand how international body is thinking?

US wants to get out of Afghanistan ASAP. They are negotiating with Taliban for the transfer of power after September 2019 elections. But Afghanis and Indians don't want Taliban to take over power because it will again start violence, instability and terrorism in South Asia. Plus Taliban's
rule in Afghanistan will be an "advantage Pakistan". Pakistan will use Afghanistan as a backyard to
train terrorists and situation like 2001 will reemerge. And nobody, including US wants that to happen. 

Then what is the option? The option is, India needs to play an active role in supporting Afghani government to stabilize. US also wants India to play a stabilizer role because it is in close proximity of Afghanistan as compared to the US main land. But to play active role in Afghanistan, India needs direct access to Afghanistan. 

Today, all modes of access to Afghanistan goes through either Pakistan or Iran. India cannot ask Iran to provide safe route for the Indian military to enter into Afghanistan because of strained relations between US and Iran, and Pakistan will never allow Indian air force planes to fly over its territory. If India cannot get a safe passage to transport men, machinery and supplies then it cannot operate in Afghanistan.

This is where the permanent solution of PoK comes into play. Please see the attached map below.

The above map shows, the only entry point from India to Afghanistan is through PoK. That is why PoK is strategically so important.

If India integrates PoK with rest of the Kashmir then India can get direct Road access to Afghanistan. India can use this route to sustain its mission in Afghanistan and provide stability.

US will agree for this plan and drum up support from other western countries. This has lot more strategic value than just stabilizing Afghanistan.

1) India will get direct access to central asian markets via road, which will improve trade and commerce.

2) US in future, need not depend on Pakistan's strategic geographical position to access Afghanistan and Central Asia. They need not pay ransom money to Pakistani generals for keeping the transportation routes open. India will be a reliable and friendly country to deal with. Russia too will support this because they too don't want Taliban to come back. 

3) US will use "Unified J&K" as a counter measure to keep China under check. This action will affect China's expansion plans in South and Central Asia. The big danger here is China's reputation as a  "Loan Shark". They give loans to the smaller countries for developing infrastructure but when these small countries cannot repay the loan then they ask that land for themselves. China has done same thing in Sri Lanka and taken over entire port. If Pakistan cannot replay China's loan then same thing will happen with Pakistan's CPEC project. If Pakistan gives CPEC area to China then that would be disastrous because then China will get direct road access to Iran, which US don't want at all to happen.

Hence there is a good chance that US will support India to integrate PoK with J&K. Pakistani leadership knows this may happen and that is why they are so worried to save PoK. India is also making it clear that PoK belongs to India. Indian leadership has recently made number of such statements saying, PoK belongs to India.

What will Pakistan do if India takes a military action in PoK? 

Pakistan will fight back, there will be collateral damage and Pakistan will lose PoK. But it will not go for a nuclear war because US will assure Pakistan that if Pakistan backs off then US will get them World Bank loan to rebuild the economy. They will offer other incentives to Pakistan to let go PoK. Pakistan will accept it because the other route is total destruction of the country.

What will China do if India takes PoK?

China will have major problem for CPEC investments because a big portion goes through PoK. Please see the map below. CPEC going through PoK is marked with Blue color.

China may threaten to open another front on the eastern side but will not do so because of US pressure. If they open another front with India then that will start a very big war and lot of countries will get involved in it. Hence chances of China opening another front with India are remote.

Instead, China and India can made a deal, ahead of time to protect CPEC route in PoK, India can sign a contract with China to protect China's investment! China will welcome this because its huge investments in CPEC would be protected and it would be mutually beneficial for both the countries. Hence I don't think China will go into confrontation mode. This is visible now itself, after recent close door UN meeting on Kashmir, China has not supported Pakistan on its Kashmir policy. 

Hence there is a good chance that India will eventually move into PoK to integrate with J&K.

Coming months will be very action packed and dangerous but India has to go through it to end the problem permanently.

Rajiv Gandhi's Assassination Part 06 - Last Part

This series of blogs explains various dimensions of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination. Though LTTE carried out the assassination, they were just hitmen contracted by someone very powerful. 

The real conspirators, planners and financiers were different people. They were hiding behind layers of curtains and virtually untraceable. After assassination, they executed a perfect plan to cover their tracks. Hence they cannot be traced but one can make a logical conclusion about the main kingpin. 

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Part 6 

Final closing comments  - Following are my thoughts based on the research
that I had done for a couple of years. I am not saying my narrative is true as I do not
have any proof. This is based on some facts and political deductions.

After Rajiv lost elections in 1989, he stopped taking advice from senior party leaders
but trusted more on his close friends and family members. In short, his family members
and his close friends became is advisers. Hence they always played a vital role in
Rajiv’s decisions.

There were some very important decisions made that ultimately killed Rajiv and those
decisions could not have been made without the consent from his family and close
friends. These decisions were;

1. Weakening of his security under the pretext that he needs to mix freely with the people.
2. Arranging two meetings with LTTE to fool Rajiv.
3. Arranging his meeting in TN, though there was a serious threat to his life.
4. Exposing him to a very dangerous security situation at Sri Perambuddur's meeting venue.

Unfortunately, the answers to these questions were never published in the public domain
hence we do not know exactly who pushed Rajiv towards the killers? 

But some guesswork can be done by connecting the dots.

Rajiv and Sonia’s security

During 1991, Rajiv was the last doyen of the Gandhi dynasty. Rajiv's kids Rahul and
Priyanka were very young to take charge of family. Death of Rajiv was a very big blow
to the Congress party, which even today, cannot survive without the name “GANDHI”
in its leadership. With this reality, it is clear that congress party leaders, outside Rajiv's
close friends and family, must have had no interest in killing him. If there was no
"Gandhi" in congress party then congress leaders could not win the elections without
"Gandhi's Name"! Therefore, It must be someone within his close friends and family
who must have planned his assassination with a motive to take control of family wealth,
goodwill and political heritage.

If we probe a little more into it, then his FAMILY’s name comes out more prominently
as the beneficiary. This is because, his family got all the Gandhi family wealth, goodwill
and the political soft corner after his death. 

To make my argument, I will take you back a few years now. 

After Indira Gandhi’s death, Sonia was pleading Rajiv not to become Prime Minister.
She was fearing that her husband might get the same fate like his mother, meaning
someone might kill him too. Her fear was not at all baseless considering situation in
India in 1984. But it seems, Rajiv replied to her saying, if he were to die then he would
die either way (meaning he could be killed even without being a Prime Minister). This
incident is narrated by Sonia Gandhi herself in one of the old interviews, which is
still there on YouTube.

This is very important to understand. This shows, Sonia was very concerned about

Rajiv’s safety. If this is true then why she did not object when Rajiv asked his security

to be weakened? Why she allowed Rajiv’s meeting with the LTTE emissaries two times

in their house in Delhi? Why she did not warn Rajiv of a possible foul play by LTTE? And,

most important, why did she allow Rajiv to visit TN, knowing he had the highest risk to

his life in TN? After all she was his wife and an advisor. Sonia has never talked about it

and hence we don’t know the reasons.

After Rajiv was killed, some Congress party leaders were enthusiastic to make her
congress leader in 1991 itself. But Sonia politely rejected the ask. Everyone expected
that Sonia would leave India and settle in Europe. If she had migrated, it would have been
very natural, considering her safety concerns. She saw her mother in law getting killed,
she saw her husband getting killed and being a mother, now she must have been worried
about the safety of her kids. 

She had all the money, family fortune to lead a comfortable life in Europe by acquiring a
different identity. She would have been very safe in some remote town in Europe. In fact,
later in 2002, Rahul Gandhi used a new identity for his study in the US. She too could
have done it, but she did not. 

In one of the interviews, Sonia narrated how difficult it was for her to live in Delhi after
Rajiv’s death. She said, her house was guarded 24X7 by the armed commandos and
all the activities were constantly monitored. She and her kids had all sorts of restrictions
and could not live a normal life. She always had fear when kids went out for something.

This must be true, but then the question is, why she chose to remain in India under
such a threat? Being an Italian, she had no roots in India and she culturally did not belong
to India. On the top of it, she was worried about the safety of her family. Usually a foreigner
would not take this risk unless he/she is waiting for some benefits to come. Sonia has not
explained herself on this hence we do not know the rationale. 

Sonia’s journey from Rajiv's widow to a Prime Ministerial candidate

After Rajiv’s death, during Lok Sabha polls in 1991, Congress party became the largest party
but failed to get a majority. Hence Congress party wanted to form government with no clear
majority.

Congress leaders, as usual wanted “GANDHI” brand name hence they tapped Sonia for
becoming the Prime Minister. But as per the newspaper reports, she refused because she
was still in the shock of losing Rajiv. Rajiv had died just a few months earlier.

Although she refused to become Prime Minister but she was not out of politics. She
suggested name of Shankar Dayal Sharma as her choice for PM. At that time Sharma
was Vice President of India. He refused the offer, sighting his advanced age. Then Sonia
reluctantly agreed on P. V. Narsimha Rao’s name because he was the next senior most
leader in congress. By the way both these names were suggested to Sonia by their
trusted family friend P. N. Huksur. 

The retired old politician PVNR was called back to become PM as a compromise
candidate because Sonia did not want Sharad Pawar to become PM. Sharad Pawar
demanded election in the Congress Parliamentary Party to elect PM but PVNR won
because of Sonia’s support. 

It is interesting to note that within two months of Rajiv’s death, Sonia was taking an
active interest in selecting next PM of India. Remember, till Rajiv was alive, she was
not in the political forefront anywhere. But after his death, she took a keen interest on
selecting next PM. 

It is interesting to see Sonia’s choice for the PM. First was Shankar Dayal Sharma
and then PVNR. Both were old and retired from politics. 

Now let’s consider another important point. 

Karunanidhi was known for his links with LTTE. Just before Rajiv was killed, Prime
Minister Chandrashekhar had dismissed his government under the charges of
Karunanidhi government’s complicity with LTTE. The Verma commission too blamed
Karunanidhi and suspected that he had a role in Rajiv’s killing. Commission had
recommended that Karunanidhi must be investigated for his role in killing Rajiv
Gandhi. All this is showing that Karunanidhi was a suspect in Rajiv Gandhi’s
assassination.

But when PVNR government made an alliance with AIADMK party, which is an opponent
of Karunanidhi during the 1996 election, congress senior leaders like G. K. Moopnaar, P.
Chidambaram left congress party and formed a new local party named Tamil Manila
Congress (TMC). Karunanidhi won those elections and became CM. TMC later
collaborated with KarunanidhI. Please note, P. Chidambaram and G. K. moopnar were
considered as close confidante of Gandhi family.

The same Karunanidhi, was accused of being a conspirator to Rajiv’s killing and the
gang of Moopnar and P. Chidambaram joined Karunanidhi. If we apply the logic then
does it mean that Moopnaar and Chidambaram supported Karunanidhi at the behest
of Sonia? It is interesting to note that, the duo came back to congress soon after Sonia
became congress president in 1998.

Another important factor to consider. Later in 2004, when Vajpai government lost the
elections, congress had no clear majority of their own to form the government and created
an alliance of multiple parties. Sonia surprisingly included Karunanidhi in UPA instead of
AIADMK or some other party. 

How come Sonia could forgive and forget Karunanidhi who was accused of his
involvement in killing her husband? And not only that,  she allowed him to be a partner
in her government. Who would forgive husband’s killer so easily? This really looks very
strange...Sonia has never clarified on this point too.

Hence there is enough room to suggest that Sonia had some kind of relationship with
Karunanidhi who was accused of conspiring to kill Rajiv.

Later, Karunanidhi's family to swindle hundreds of crores of Rupees in 2G scam and
nothing happened to them!

Sonia and her family demanded Rajiv’s killers, Nalini and her husband be pardoned and
be released from the jail. Priyanka Gandhi even visited her father’s killer in the TN jail.
This too looks strange to demand their release.  

Sonia said, she has forgiven Nalini and her husband for Rajiv's killing. If Sonia is so kind
hearted then why she did not show the same forgiveness to PVNR’s dead body? She did
not even allow his body to enter Congress party’s headquarters and did not allow funeral
to be done in New Delhi. Hence Sonia’s expression of forgiveness is all B.S. 

Another interesting fact, Nalini and her Sri Lankan husband Murugan got married after
killing Rajiv and Nalinili was pregnant when she was arrested. Later in 1992 she gave
birth to a daughter. Her daughter, Harithra Sriharn lived in the jail with her mother for couple
of years. But later she was sent back to Sri Lanka to her maternal grandparents. Nalini
pleaded to give Harithra Indian citizenship but it was rejected. Then she was completely
out of news for number of years. Recently Harithra came into news because she completed
Bio Medical Engineering in Glasgow UK! Good to see Harithra taking good education but
question remains, who paid for her education right from high school till college in UK?
Education in UK is not cheap and getting this kind of education for an orphaned child
raises questions. Was it again a goodwill gesture of Gandhi Family?

The money factor…

It is accused that Prabhakaran received a final payment of 65 million USD just two days
before Rajiv was killed. It was wire transferred to his foreign bank. This gives a suspicion
that LTTE was a contract killer and they killed Rajiv for money. And that also explains
why Prabhakan took the risk of losing everything by killing Rajiv. He was expecting a “
Favorable” government to come to power in India after Rajiv was killed. This would have
covered all his sins. Plus he was paid lavishly for the hit job hence he accepted the hit job. 

But to his bad luck, he did not get favorable government immediately after killing Rajiv
and PVNR became the PM of India. This ruined his plan.

If this payment info is true, then it shows Prabhakaran killed Rajiv purely for money and
there was no other motive. The conspirators and financiers were different people, who still
remain behind the curtains.

This is the final point…

When Sonia Gandhi got married with Rajiv in 1968, the Gandhi family was going really
great in Indian politics. Indira Gandhi herself was a very strong leader, later her younger
son Sanjay joined her in the politics and he was her political successor. Rajiv at that time
was not interested in politics and was not a political successor to Indira. Rajiv at that time
was a commercial pilot in Air India.

The point is, before 1980, Sonia had not even the remotest chance of getting Gandhi
family’s political fortune. 

But in 1980 Sanjay died in a plane crash, Indira was killed in 1984 and Rajiv was killed
in 1991. In other words, within 11 years, all the three strong people of Gandhi dynasty
died in UNNATURAL DEATHS and Italian born lady became sole owner of Gandhi
family’s fortune and the political heritage. Her only legal partner in Gandhi Family's
wealth was Sanjay's widow Maneka Gandhi. But she was disowned by Indira Gandhi
immediately after Sanjay's death.

Does it not feel odd that a foreigner lady, who had no bonding with India, no
understanding of Indian culture, traditions, suddenly became head of the Gandhi
dynasty...after three important people of the Gandhi family died unnatural deaths? 

Later Sonia grabbed the Gandhi family’s political heritage too and ruled India,
which is the largest democracy on the earth for TEN long years. Her rule was
tainted with big scams and corruption charges. 

It was rumored that Sonia was listed as the fourth richest and powerful lady in the
world in some international magazine. Isn't it amazing, a half educated, middle class
Italian lady grabbing power in India and minting money to become 4th richest powerful
person in the world? 

Earlier we talked about the “Beneficiary” in the political assassinations. There is no
doubt, Sonia was the biggest beneficiary of Rajiv’s death. She not only got Gandhi
family’s wealth but she grabbed political power too, under the “Gandhi” name. She
earned enough money in 10 years of UPA government  so that her 70 next generations
can enjoy a lavish life. 

I leave to the readers to make their final judgement. 

Thanks for reading….