Mumbai, Nov 11 : The Sonia Gandhi citizenship issue has sparked fresh political controversy after actress and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut questioned the Congress leader’s decision to acquire Indian citizenship 15 years after marrying former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Sonia Gandhi married Rajiv Gandhi in 1968. However, she acquired Indian citizenship in 1983. Kangana questioned the timing and linked it to the death of Sanjay Gandhi in 1980.
Sonia Gandhi citizenship timeline questioned by Kangana
In an Instagram Story, Kangana referred to Sonia Gandhi’s marriage and citizenship dates. She also questioned why the Congress leader acquired citizenship after Sanjay Gandhi’s death.
Sonia Gandhi has recently released her memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love. Kangana raised the citizenship issue amid the political debate surrounding the book.
Kangana wrote: “Sonia Gandhi got married in 1968. Sonia Gandhi was living in the Prime Minister house, was voting without citizenship but didn’t get Indian citizenship for 15 years. Sanjay Gandhi dies in 1980, Sonia Gandhi after 15 years decides to get Indian citizenship in 1983. Why she got the citizenship only after the death of Indira’s political heir? (sic).”
Kangana Ranaut renews allegations against Sonia Gandhi
Kangana had made a series of accusations against Sonia Gandhi on November 10. In an Instagram Story, she questioned the Congress leader’s political rise and called her a ‘mysterious foreign national’.
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Kangana said she researched the Gandhi family extensively while making her film Emergency. She claimed the deaths of Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi raised questions about the family’s political succession.
The Queen actress described the sequence of events as having ‘way too many coincidences’.
Kangana wrote: “Every one is talking about NVIDIA honey trap controversy, for Emergency I did a lot of research on Indian politics and Gandhi family and I must confess that one thing I could never wrap my head around is that one mysterious foreign national enters Gandhi family and Indira Gandhi killed, Sanjay Gandhi Rajeev Gandhi all potential heirs to the throne killed leaving just one and only sympathy choice for the throne that one foreign national called Sonia Gandhi and people didn’t even think there were way too many coincidences also that foreigner notoriously and openly propagated foreign agendas shed crocodile tears for terrorists, yet she managed to head the government for decades until of course 2014 happened (sic).”
Kangana accuses Sonia Gandhi of ousting Maneka Gandhi
A few hours later, Kangana shared another Instagram post. She accused Sonia Gandhi of forcing Maneka Gandhi to leave the family home after Sanjay Gandhi’s death.
Kangana claimed that Maneka, whom Sanjay Gandhi had married, was left vulnerable with her young son after his death.
She wrote: “And just like that a vulnerable teenage girl Maneka who Sanjay Gandhi married and loved like crazy, after his death his young widow with their son was thrown out of his house for random reasons as mentioned by Sonia Gandhi, she was out of the way just before every one else was to get killed, how convenient!,” Kangana penned.
Kangana also questioned how Sonia Gandhi met Rajiv Gandhi at a cafe abroad and later became part of the influential Gandhi family.
In another social media post, she described Maneka as a “wounded little child” who appeared to seek comfort from her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi.
Kangana wrote: “Even in the end of the clip every one leaves but Maneka stays looking at Mrs Gandhi like a wounded little child seeking some comfort may be a little smile or a gaze in her direction, she stays hoping for one sign but nothing comes only coldness and slowly she disappears like she is there but doesn’t exist. Heartbreaking! On the other hand every one seems to be wrapped around little finger of a mysterious foreign national who bumped in to older son Rajeev Gandhi in a cafe abroad and ever since became inseparable, younger son Sanjay was being formally trained by Mrs Gandhi but he dies mysteriously and his vulnerable young window Maneka was thrown out of his house for random reasons and shortly after that the mother in law and husband were also killed one after the other.”
Towards the end of her post, Kangana again questioned the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Sanjay Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. She claimed these events left Sonia Gandhi as the head of the government.
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–IANS
