New Delhi: The US Embassy cables accessed by WikiLeaks have claimed that there were three assassination attempts on late former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's second son Sanjay Gandhi. A 1976 dispatch says Sanjay was the target of an unknown assailant in a "well planned assassination attempt" during the Emergency.
It quotes Indian intelligence sources as saying that he was shot at three times on August 30 or 31, but escaped with minor injuries. The cables also mention an attempt on Sanjay using a high powered rifle when he was visiting Uttar Pradesh. Sanjay was killed in a plane crash in Delhi in 1980.
Another WikiLeaks cable also claims that AK Antony was "one of the only" leaders apart from Priyaranjan Dasmunsi who "flatly criticised" Sanjay Gandhi during 1976 AICC session in Guwahati during Emergency when the latter's political graph was on the rise.
The cables, made public by Wikileaks, also said the party faction led by Antony, the Kerala unit President, refused to support Sanjay and questioned his "rapid ascent to a position of power" asking "what sacrifices he has made for the party or the country"....
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08:51 AM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks say that late former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had written to the then Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1974 offering to share nuclear technology but only if proper conditions for trust were created. The offer was rejected by Bhutto. The cables also say Indira Gandhi was evasive about nuclear weaponisation. The cables quote her as saying, "If our scientists have...
10:43 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress has trashed the latest WikiLeaks revelation naming late former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as mere 'sensation with no substance'. Reacting to the revelation, Congress leader Janardhan Dwivedi said, "I do not know on what grounds such a story was published." "Right below this article, is an article which names an NDA leader, does it mean there is truth to that article as well? That he took...
03:16 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Opposition has questioned the Congress over the latest revelations by US cables WikiLeaks naming late former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in a scandal. The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded that the Congress comes clean on it. "Today, the WikiLeaks revelations are serious. They are connected to the first family of Congress. All defence deals have some relation with the Congress's first family. They should come clean on...
11:02 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress has rejected the WikiLeaks revelation that named late former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in a scandal. Reacting to the allegations, Congress said, "The credibility of WikiLeaks is questionable and any case the author is planning a political party. We don't give importance to the allegations and the cables." The Bharatiya Janata Party, has, meanwhile, demanded that the Congress comes clean on it. "Today, the WikiLeaks revelations...
09:54 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The latest WikiLeaks revelations from US Embassy cables have named former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in a scandal. National daily The Hindu has published their findings of the Kissinger cables, which claim that Rajiv Gandhi may have been a middleman for a Swedish Company before he became the Prime Minister. This, during the 1970s when Swedish company Saab-Scania was trying to sell its Viggen fighter aircraft to India....
08:20 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi:WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has demanded that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati apologise for her attack on him and quipped that he would send her a range of the finest British footwear if she sends him a private jet. Assange's comment came in response to Mayawatis allegation that the Wikileaks founder had either gone mad or is working with her opponents. The WikiLeaks official account posted Assange's response on...
07:20 PM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has a "penchant for personal corruption" and a strong authoritarian streak, according to WikiLeaks. The whistleblower site claims that Mayawati's close confidante and Rajya Sabha MP Satish Mishra told US officials on May 29, 2007, 16 days after she took oath as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, that she was corrupt However, Satish Mishra has flatly refuted ...
12:42 PM, Sep 06, 2011
In the backdrop of the WikiLeaks revelations, tonight at 10, Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts whether Mayawati is caught in an image.
12:36 PM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange alleging that "he had either gone mad or is working with our opponents". Reacting to WikiLeaks revelations about the money spent by her, Mayawati termed the claims by the whistleblower site as wrong and baseless. However, during her entire speech, Mayawati didn't mention the name of Julian Assange and referred to him...
12:14 PM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: The Essar Group on Tuesday rejected the allegations made in the US diplomatic cable published on WikiLeaks that it paid protection money to Maoists, saying it is a law abiding corporate. "Essar is a law abiding corporate. We don't think it is appropriate or necessary to react to baseless and unfounded allegations," an Essar spokesperson said in a statement. As per the cable published by whistleblower internet website...
11:36 AM, Sep 06, 2011
Srinagar: Moderate Hurriyat Conference leaders were privately in favour of hanging Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru if he was guilty but felt that he did not get adequate representation during parts of his trial, leaked US diplomatic cables have claimed. "While they (moderates) were concerned that Afzal did not have adequate representation during parts of his trial, privately they say that he should be executed if he is guilty," a...
09:41 AM, Sep 06, 2011
Washington: The Ruias-led Essar Group, which has mining interests in Chhattisgarh, pays protection money to Maoists to safeguard its operations in the state, a leaked US diplomatic cable said. "A senior representative from Essar, a major industrial company with large mining and steel-related facilities in Chhattisgarh, told Congenoff (Consul General Office) that the company pays the Maoists 'a significant amount' not to harm or interfere with their operations," a cable...
08:46 AM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati sent a jet to pick up a pair of sandals, according to leaked US diplomatic cables. "When she needed new sandals, her private jet flew empty to Mumbai to retrieve her preferred brand," a cable said describing her "eccentricities, whims and insecurities". US embassy cables from 2007 to 2009 released by the WikiLeaks website describe Mayawati as "a...
03:19 PM, Sep 05, 2011
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02:49 PM, Sep 05, 2011
New Delhi: By "surrendering" to the Telangana statehood demand, the Congress opened a can of worms and came across as a party that appeared "weak and feeble" and one that can be "easily bullied and intimidated by threats", according to US assessment of the situation in 2009. In a secret cable written on December 10, 2009, then US Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer said the ramifications of the "Telangana surrender"...
01:47 PM, Sep 04, 2011
D Raja reacts to the WikiLeaks cable that quotes former national security adviser as saying India wasn't serious about David Headley's extradition. ...
11:29 AM, Sep 04, 2011
New Delhi: New revelations in a US cable released by Wikileaks state that India was never really serious about 26/11 accused David Coleman Headley's extradition. The cable says that in December 2009, former national security adviser MK Narayanan had told the then US ambassador to India Timothy Roemer that New Delhi's demand for extraditing Headley was mere posturing. Narayanan is also reported saying that the government was just trying to...
10:05 AM, Sep 04, 2011
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01:06 PM, Aug 26, 2011
New Delhi: As the DMK reels from the double shock of losing the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections and MP Kanimozhi behind bars in the 2G scam, it seems that one top party leader had seen it coming. Top secret US Diplomatic cables accessed by WikiLeaks and published in 'The Hindu' newspaper claim that DMK MP and Karunanidhi's grandnephew Dayanidhi Maran had predicted the party's downfall as early as February 2008....
08:38 AM, May 23, 2011
