Straight-talking Swamy takes aim at India’s old elite
NEW DELHI: - savvy right- wing populist who is unafraid of upsetting everyone from the ruling elite to religious minorities as he rails against corruption.
And after returning to par from- the- hip style that has popular if divisive politicians.
Presse in an interview at his home in New Delhi.
would never have thought that a politician in the US could even get out of the first round ( of the presidential primaries) he has shown.
- mean what I say.
“People come up to me in airplanes and other places and they
first entered Parliament as an elected member of the lower and had a stint as law minister
After a lengthy absence from was nominated to the upper Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
It gives him a new platform finance professor.
Parliamentary language
While raucous debate is a regu personal insults are meant to be Swamy often manages to out
Hindi word meaning idiot) is but it escaped expunging as the
His similarly irreverent social media posts have brought him following.
more than just a parliamentary - cord of helping expose top- level corruption.
His dogged campaigning over the corrupt allocation of telecoms licenses a decade ago helped put one government minister behind bars.
a controversial deal to purchase military helicopters from the Italian company Agusta.
Swamy has also filed a private criminal complaint accusing Gandhi and his mother Sonia— president of the main opposition Congress party— of misappropriating property belonging to a now- defunct newspaper.
are evidence that Modi and his allies are pursuing a vicious vendetta against them.
of his accusations fail to stand up and the supposedly fearless Swamy is soft on the current government.
Although Swamy used to head year before it won power.
They also accuse him of stirring religious tensions in a country with a gory history of by urging the construction of a Hindu temple at a site also claimed by Muslims in the city of Ayodhya.
‘ Stifling political correctness’
He has argued that Muslims—who of the population— should be stripped of their right to vote un ancestry.
“Those minorities who stay - plete freedom to follow their religion but culturally they
Writing in The Hindustan Muslims and the Gandhi fam traditional elite— mean he is
the feeling “that political correctness has become despotic
“In Trump and Swamy and
- needs to start mending bridges through parliament.
Such arguments cut little ice with Swamy who is dismissive of what he calls a glorified largest democracy.
“Should I forget about corruption so that you can pass Swamy said.