04-27-2005, 01:21 AM
From Dhar's book one can see that Rajiv Gandhi quickly built up his power center soon after Sanjay's death in the light plane crash. In fact he became adept and ran his own mini PMO that had to be monitored by IB. In light of Subramaniam Swamy's allegations one wonders if the crash was so accidental. One thing is clear that the Nehru line held by Maneka Gandhi was hoped to whither. Why? Mrs Gandhi did have reservations about Maneka's mom but it was till an indegenous line.