![]() And if the country knows about it, it’s because of only one man, Feroze Gandhi. If you thought UPA 2 was corrupt with its 2G, Adarsh and Coal scams, the very first government of independent India under Jawaharlal Nehru was no less. It was a major loss of face for Nehru, but that didn’t stop Feroze from performing his duty. ![]() An inquiry found the allegation to be true, and the then finance minister TT Krishnamachari had to step down. On the floor of the house, he alleged an investment of Rs 1.24 crore - quite a handsome sum in those days - was made by the LIC in a sinking firm, suggesting a scam where the Nehru government was complicit. ![]() The crusader was Feroze and at his receiving end was a government led by his father-in-law. The member of Parliament from Raebareli exposed the first financial scam of independent India - The LIC scam. How many people of today’s generation know that in spite of being a Congressman by heart, Feroze Gandhi fought against his own party, his own father-in-law? The year was 1958. Why doesn’t the Congress as we know today acknowledge Feroze Gandhi as it does the other Gandhis? Was the man, who has often been called an unofficial spokesperson of the opposition of his time, in spite of being a true blue Congressman wronged by the Congress party? Why didn’t Nehru like him? Why is it a sin to talk about him in Congress circles, even today? MyNation looks back at the legacy of one of the most democratic voices of Congress ever and why that legacy is still as important even five decades after his death. But the father of Rajeev Gandhi, grandfather of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra, husband of Indira Gandhi and son-in-law of Pandit Nehru was lost in oblivion with the Congress Twitter handle not even sending out a tweet in his remembrance. He passed away on September 8, so it would be expected of the Congress party to remember him on his death anniversary. He later changed his surname from Ghandy to Gandhi, influenced by the Mahatma - the original Gandhi. A brilliant parliamentarian, he is often called as the ‘conscience keeper’ of the government of his time.ĭecades ago, on September 12, 1912, he was born as Feroze Jehangir Ghandy. Feroze Gandhi was not just a husband or a son-in-law of India’s most powerful family he was a young freedom fighter who was very close to Kamala Nehru. But he had an individuality and quite a strong one, needless to say. New Delhi: All his life he was known as the husband of Indira Gandhi, India’s former Prime Minister. ![]()
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