Monday, June 05, 2006

Bofors booms

The death of innocence. One fine day, Rajiv Gandhi, seen as the new hope, was accused of receiving kickbacks worth Rs.64 crore in the buying of Swiss gun Bofors. V. P. Singh, once Rajiv’s finance minister, fell out with Rajiv and led the Bofors campaign. The amount is loose change today, but when Singh went around telling Indians that Rajiv was dirty, it shook the country.

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Source:- IIPM Editorial, 2006