Author: Press release by Subramania Swamy
Publication: South Asia Analysis Group
Date: April 24, 2006
URL: http://www.saag.org/BB/view.asp?msgID=25553
The Janata Party advocates cell in Uttar Pradesh
will seek the rejection of Ms.Sonia Gandhi's nomination for contesting as
a candidate in the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha by-poll on the ground of admitted
perjury.
In her 2004 nomination papers Ms.Sonia Gandhi
had claimed in a sworn affidavit that she had been 'educated in the University
of Cambridge'. http://www.eci.gov.in/GE2004_Affidavits/Uttar%20Pradesh/Affidavits/19/Sonia%20Gandhi/SG_sc5.html
( See her affidavit filed befor Election Commmission) The University in three
separate letters to NRIs (with copy to me) had denied Ms.Sonia Gandhi was
ever admitted as a student in the University, much less "educated"
there.
In her nomination filed yesterday, Ms.Sonia
Gandhi now claims in her affidavit that she received 'a certificate in English'
from Lennox Cook School in the city of Cambridge, U.K.
First of all, this is an admission of perjury,
and hence she has confessed to a crime committed u/s 177 of the IPC, and 125A
of the Representation of People's Act (1951). These two offences together
carry a punishment of three years.
Secondly, the 2006 claim of education is rubbish
because the so-called Lennox Cook School is not recognized by the Board of
Education U.K. as a educational institution empowered to award certificates.
It has closed down in 1985. My inquiries reveal that it is a fly-by night
shop to enable poor Italian and Spanish girls to learn enough English to get
jobs as cooks and waitresses. It is by no means an education recognized by
any academic standard.
What Ms.Sonia Gandhi must honestly admit that
she is an uneducated person. No Indian voter will object to such an honest
admission. If she can lie about her 'education', what else has been lying
about her past?
