Amidst a washout of the monsoon session of the parliament, an interesting flashback triggered with a term called “Quid pro quo”....
Congress' accusation of Quid pro on Sushma Swaraj, came back as a boomerang... Sushma Swaraj roaring with a reply of what quid pro quo means and how Congress executed it... Mention of Adil Shahryar and Mohammad Yunus by Sushma Swaraj opened up a list of questions for this generation...
Who is Adil Shahryar...??
Who is Mohammad Yunus...??
How is Adil related to Nehru family..??
Adil Shahryar is the son of Mohammad Yunus... Mohammad Yunus was an officer at the Indian Foreign Service and served as an ambassador in few countries... Mohd. Yunus was born in 1916 in Abottabad to a wealthy family... During the fight of independence, Mohd. Yunus had become so close to Nehru’s daughter Indira Gandhi that he chose to stay in India, post partition...
Now it’s a known fact that relations between Firoz and Indira wz not at the best and both stayed in separate houses but not divorced... Mr. M.O. Mathai, then private secretary to Mr. Nehru writes in his article called “SHE” (From the Book "Reminiscences of the Nehru Age"),
“She said that when she came from her dressing room to drink her usual glass of milk, she discovered that there was finely powdered glass in it. The powder was floating on the thick cream. At the first sip she immediately sensed it in her mouth and spat it out. She said that from her dressing room, she heard her husband sneaking into her bedroom and making an exit. She controlled herself..."
Now here by the time of Sanjiv’s birth (younger son of Indira), Mohammad Yunus who had become a long time resident of Nehru House... He ensured within the first week of Sanjiv’s birth, he was circumcised on the excuse of the baby having a disease called “phimosis”... But it was carried out in Islamic tradition... This information is available in Yunus’ book, “Persons, Passions & Politics”...
Now it’s up to the us, the readers to search on who is Sanjiv’s father... As there are many articles and books available claiming that Sanjiv wz not a son of Firoz Gandhi...
[ Off-topic information; Sanjiv was renamed to Sanjay after the British police arrested Sanjiv for car theft in the United Kingdom and seized his passport... India’s ambassador to UK (name undisclosed), ensured Sanjiv’s name change to Sanjay and obtained a new passport for him...]
So now Mr. Mohammad Yunus, had another son (not from Indira) called Adil Shahryar... Adil, Rajiv, Sanjay grew up together and were close to each other....
In the early 80s, Adil Shahryar had a company called "Caribbean international Investment Corporation" which had signed a deal with "Shapton Producers" to supply video cassettes... Instead, he supplied scrap paper... Shahryar had fallen out with the suppliers and later attempted to set fire on his hotel room... He was taken to custody in Miami in 1981... He was charged with a fraud with shipping authorities as well as American Express International Banking Corporation... He was also charged with use of fire-arm while in felony... As a result, he was sentenced to 35 years in jail by the US fed court....
Here in India, on 2nd December 1984, in Bhopal, from pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), a toxic gas Methyl Isocyanate leakage caused 3700 deaths, blinded atleast 20,000 and over 5 lakh were affected adversely.... Anderson was arrested in Bhopal on Dec 7, 1984... And wz placed under house-arrest in carbide guesthouse... Within a few hours of his arrest, Chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, Arjun Singh received a phone call from Delhi to ensure the safe release and escape of Anderson back to the United States.... Point to be noted here is that Rajiv Gandhi wz the Prime Minister of India at that time...
In June 1985, Ronald Reagan Govt. in the United States, grants presidential pardon to Adil Shahryar... Also important is the fact that Ronald Reagan signed the pardon papers of Adil on June 11 1985... Incidentally it’s the day when Rajiv landed in Washington... Rajiv secured the release of Adil in exchange for the gesture on releasing Anderson earlier... After returning India Rajiv Gandhi was heard saying that “Adil was wrongly imprisoned”....
Sushma Swaraj's reply on Quid Pro Quo opened up many questions and facts which were not known to many of this generation...
References :
• http://www.rediff.com/news/report/who-is-adil-shahryar-and-why-was-he-part-of-sushmas-reference/20150812.htm
• http://www.wikipedia.org
• http://www.scribd.com
• http://www.thefrustratedindian.com/2015/08/
• Article "SHE" by M.O. Mathai
• Reminiscences of the Nehru Age by M.O. Mathai
• Book "My Days with Nehru"
• Book “Persons, Passions & Politics” by Mohammad Yunus
- Jai Hind...
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