Some Insights about Raghul Gandhi

Raghul Gandhi’s personal life may not be a concern for Indians, if he is an ordinary citizen. But, he was unofficially declared as the Prime Ministerial candidate and he is presently Vice-President of Grand Old Party - Indian National Congress. It is also a fact that even the President of the Congress Party is with Sonia Gandhi who is the mother of Raghul Gandhi. Nobody had dared to question why both the posts should be held by Mother-Son duo in spite of the great drubbing in the recently held Lok Sabha election - getting all time low seats of 44 - even not eligible to get the status of Leader of Opposition Party. Hence an insight of Raghul’s love affairs, his qualifications, his professions, etc.  gain relevance and importance.

Raghul himself had said: "My girlfriend's name is Veronique not Juanita. She is Spanish and not Venezuelan or Colombian. She is an architect not a waitress, though I wouldn't  have had a problem with that." 

Veronique Cartelli, who studied in the same university as him in England in the 1990s, became very close to him - but, it is a million dollar question whether she will become his wife. Rahul was seen in the company of Veronica, an architect, Spanish by birth but who grew up in Venezuela, since 2004. They were spotted together at cricket matches and holiday spots in Kerala. She was rumoured to have been asked to bow out to avoid another controversy over a foreign wife coming into the Nehru-Gandhi family.

Raghul was also spotted in the company of another girl - Noella, an Afghan princess and jewellery designer, whose mother is an Italian. She is also the granddaughter of former Afghanistan King, late Mohammad Zahir Shah. They were also seen together in France. She is said to have taken up Roman Catholic religion and informed sources said that the Rahul and she often pray together in the home chapel of his mother Sonia's residence.

There is one more report about his keeping company with a lady - daughter of a deceased head of government of an Asian country, married to a Swiss national and having a young son. They were reported to have met in Delhi and later met frequently in Dubai.

In any case, he recently told PTI that he will only marry when he finds “the right girl,” seemingly meaning that neither Veronique nor Noella or any other acquaintances fit the bill.

“This is a question that comes up all the time. Right now, I am engaged in fighting the [Lok Sabha] elections. Unfortunately, I have not been focused on private life,” he said.

“Is it two years from now, one year from now?” he was asked.

“When I find the right girl,” replied the 43-year-old Congress vice-president.

“That means you have not found the right girl?”

“When I find the right girl, I will get married.”

The above interview of Raghul reveals a sad state of his mind and his playboy attitudes which will not augur well with the Indian psyche. Immediately after the Lok Sabha election, it seems he had travelled surreptitiously to America and the name in his passport seems to be Raul Vinci and not Raghul Gandhi - which may help to hide his identity from the public eyes.

Educational Qualification:

After finishing school education, Rahul Gandhi got admission at the St. Stephens College in New Delhi, not on merit basis but on sports quota of rifle shooting. After a brief stay there in 1989-90, he did his BA from Rollins College, Florida in 1994. Just for doing BA one need not go to the US. The very next year, in 1995 he got M.Phil in Development Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge.

His Profession:

First Raghul had declared his profession as ‘Farmer’ in 2004 and then in 2009, he changed his profession to ‘Strategy Consultant’. These were the information furnished by Raghul in his affidavits which were mandatory to be filed while contesting elections.

From consultancy, Raghul had gone into entrepreneurship by setting up a firm called Bakops by having 83% ownership leaving the rest to 3 of his friends - Anil Thakur, Ranvir Sinha and Manoj Muttu. After the formation of UPA 1 in the 2004 election, the firm was flooded with orders and the Mumbai based Mid-Day news paper carried some sensational claims about the little known Raghul-owned firm who had secured plum projects in Mumbai and Pune worth crores of rupees. When probed by Business Standard another news paper , the Backops’ registered office in Central Delhi was found to be bogus, as it was the office of a chartered accountancy firm called Thakur Vaidyanath Aiyar and Company.  Then he quit the company in 2009 giving way for her sister Priyanka, though, as of now, the company is not a going concern. All contracts secured by Backops were related to providing engineering design services and Raghul’s educational background suggests he had no expertise whatsoever in the design field that goes to prove that these contracts were got with political clouts.

Conclusion:

Raghul had said: “The Indian flag is my religion. He would serve the people this flag represents. It would be a disservice to both his religion and his party , before he took up a job before he knew what our workers and people feel and need. He would not let them down.”

Raghul’s speech is no match for his awful deeds so far and it is great that Indian Voters had judged him correctly and voted his party down.