Feroze Gandhi was a Congress parliamentarian but he never hesitated to expose the wrongdoings of the Congress government headed by his father-in-law Jawaharlal Nehru (“A lesson in propriety, from one Nehru-Gandhi son-in-law,” Oct. 22). I was working with Finance Minister T.T. Krishnamachari who asked the Secretary and the Joint Secretary about the veracity of Feroze Gandhi’s claims against Haridas Mundra. Not getting a satisfactory reply, he asked me. I told him Feroze Gandhi was only quoting from the records. He immediately had a talk with Nehru and announced a judicial probe into the matter. He resigned as Finance Minister; he was not asked to step down as mentioned in the article. But T.T. Krishnamachari got the Secretary, a senior ICS officer, shunted out of the department and never pardoned him.
In Robert Vadra’s case, the whole Congress party and its leaders in the government ran to his defence,.
Ganti Mahapatruni
Rama Rao,
Visakhapatnam
I read with interest the tale of the two sons-in-law of the Nehru-Gandhi family. Feroze Gandhi was the very embodiment of propriety and probity. It is certainly difficult to say the same about Mr. Vadra.
B. Premananda Bhat,
Manipal
The article portrays well the present-day approach of politicians and businessmen to values like decency in public life as compared to what it was in Nehru’s time. Can the thinking of good old days ever return?
V.P. Govindarajan
Chennai
The comparison is between two individuals of the same family. But what a difference! One person fought corruption and, in the process, got distanced from his wife and father-in-law. The other is accused of corruption but is being shielded by the Congress loyalists. Feroze Gandhi never made use of his position as the son-in-law of the Prime Minister whereas Robert Vadra seems to have utilised his connections to the maximum possible extent.
Narayanan,
Coimbatore
