<p>As the allegations against Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi cause embarrassment to the party and country’s first political family, few would be aware that another son-in-law of the Nehru–Gandhi dynasty, Feroze Gandhi (September 12, 1912 – September 8, 1960), was instrumental in exposing independent India’s first corruption scam.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“A mutiny in my mind has compelled me to raise this debate. When things of such magnitude, as I shall describe to you later, occur, silence became a crime…..” were the words of Feroze Gandhi, son-in-law of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, when he rose to speak in Parliament in 1958 on the shabby deal between government-controlled Life Insurance Company and businessman Haridas Mundhra.<br /><br />Feroze Gandhi, husband Indira, had won the 1957 Lok Sabha elections from Rae Bareli and belonged to the Treasury benches at that time, but nothing stopped him from exposing graft. <br /><br />The whole House listened in pin-drop silence as Feroze spoke, exposing the murky deal and concluded by establishing a conspiracy in which public funds were wrongfully employed for financing the interests of an individual at the cost of the insured. The expose resulted in the resignation of Finance Minister T T Krishnamachari and imprisonment of Mundhra.<br /><br />The revelations caused embarrassment to the Nehru Cabinet; however, the family could take pride in having a parliamentarian of high moral values. While Robert Vadra, husband of Priyanka Gandhi, is accused of having close links with real estate giant DLF and helping the debt-ridden company, Feroze Gandhi had reportedly exposed various corporate houses for using public money by running banks and insurance companies and transferring it to their own business.<br /><br />While Feroze Gandhi, two-time Lok Sabha MP excelled in politics and would be known as a parliamentarian of impeccable image, Robert Vadra, surrounded by graft charges failed to achieve anything on political turf despite his new-found status by virtue of his marriage to Priyanka Gandhi.<br /><br />Robert Vadra did express his intent to join politics during the run–up to the recent Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. However, Priyanka Gandhi rejected the idea, saying he is a businessman and was content with his work.<br /></p>
<p>As the allegations against Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi cause embarrassment to the party and country’s first political family, few would be aware that another son-in-law of the Nehru–Gandhi dynasty, Feroze Gandhi (September 12, 1912 – September 8, 1960), was instrumental in exposing independent India’s first corruption scam.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“A mutiny in my mind has compelled me to raise this debate. When things of such magnitude, as I shall describe to you later, occur, silence became a crime…..” were the words of Feroze Gandhi, son-in-law of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, when he rose to speak in Parliament in 1958 on the shabby deal between government-controlled Life Insurance Company and businessman Haridas Mundhra.<br /><br />Feroze Gandhi, husband Indira, had won the 1957 Lok Sabha elections from Rae Bareli and belonged to the Treasury benches at that time, but nothing stopped him from exposing graft. <br /><br />The whole House listened in pin-drop silence as Feroze spoke, exposing the murky deal and concluded by establishing a conspiracy in which public funds were wrongfully employed for financing the interests of an individual at the cost of the insured. The expose resulted in the resignation of Finance Minister T T Krishnamachari and imprisonment of Mundhra.<br /><br />The revelations caused embarrassment to the Nehru Cabinet; however, the family could take pride in having a parliamentarian of high moral values. While Robert Vadra, husband of Priyanka Gandhi, is accused of having close links with real estate giant DLF and helping the debt-ridden company, Feroze Gandhi had reportedly exposed various corporate houses for using public money by running banks and insurance companies and transferring it to their own business.<br /><br />While Feroze Gandhi, two-time Lok Sabha MP excelled in politics and would be known as a parliamentarian of impeccable image, Robert Vadra, surrounded by graft charges failed to achieve anything on political turf despite his new-found status by virtue of his marriage to Priyanka Gandhi.<br /><br />Robert Vadra did express his intent to join politics during the run–up to the recent Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. However, Priyanka Gandhi rejected the idea, saying he is a businessman and was content with his work.<br /></p>