Quash Sonia's election from Rae Bareli, demands Swamy

LUCKNOW: The Janata Party president Dr Subramanian Swamy has filed a complaint with the Returning Officer of Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency against Congress MP Sonia Gandhi for filing false information in the affidavit submitted at the time of nomination.
Dr Swamy, who met the RO Rae Bareli on Friday, produced what he said was "documentary evidence" to prove that Sonia was never a student of the Cambridge University.He submitted two letters dated November 21 and 28 2001) from the Cambridge University student records and statistics authorities stating that no student with the name of either Sonia Maino or Gandhi was ever registered with the university.
Dr Swamy demanded that the RO should quash Sonia''s election from Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency and initiate criminal proceedings against her under sections 177, 181 and 191 of the IPC for wilful false declaration on the affidavit she had filed before the RO in May 2004 that she had a degree from the University of Cambridge.
"The fact of the matter is that she has not even passed high school and is barely literate. Yet, she has lied to the electorate, committed a criminal offence and hence unfit to be an MP," he said at a press conference in Lucknow after his return from Rae Bareli.
Earlier, Dr Swamy had filed two more cases against Sonia. Two PILs, accusing Sonia of receiving huge sums from KGB and her involvement into antique smuggling, are pending before the Delhi High Court. The Delhi HC has issued notices to CBI fixing November 17 as the next date for hearing.
The Janata Party president declared that he would file three more cases against Sonia by January 14, 2005. "One would deal with corruption and amassing disproportionate assets. The other would be based on her suspected involvement in the conspiracy behind her husband late Rajiv Gandhi''s assassination and the third for keeping the Italian citizenship even today," he announced, demanding cancellation of her Indian citizenship.
Dr Swamy said that an action committee would be formed on Jaya Prakash Narain''s birth anniversary on October 11 in Delhi to expose the anti-national character of Sonia by holding nationwide public meetings. A meeting has been called on October 11 at former defence minister George Fernandes'' residence in New Delhi. Former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma, ex-Madhya Pradesh CM Uma Bharti, Sanjay Nirupam and others are likely to participate in the meeting.
Predicting fall of Manmohan government by December due to its own contradictions, Dr Swamy said that his efforts were directed at finding a viable coalition to prevent mid-term polls.