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Subramanian Swamy : Lets salute the real fighter 'SINGHAM

Subramanian Swamy (born 15 September 1939 in Chennai, sometimes spelt Subramaniam Swamy) is presently the President of Janata Party. He is a politician.Swamy is married to Dr. Roxna Swamy (a Parsi), an advocate at the Supreme Court of India. He has two daughters, Gitanjali Swamy and Suhasini Haider, the latter a journalist at CNN-IBN. His brother-in-law is Jewish, his son-in-law Muslim, his sister-in-law Christian and his wife Parsi.
Early life and education -
Subramanian Swamy was born in Mylapore, Chennai, India, into a
Hindu Brahmin family. His father Sitarama Subramanian is from
Madurai, Tamil Nadu who retired as Secretary to Government of
India. His mother is from Tamil speaking family from Trichur,
Kerala.
He attended Hindu College, University of Delhi, from where he
earned his Bachelor Honours degree in Mathematics. He studied for
his Masters degree in Statistics at the Indian Statistical
Institute. He then went to study at Harvard University on a full
Rockefeller scholarship. He was awarded a Ph.D. in
Economics by Harvard University (Class of 1965).
For some time, while completing his dissertation in 1963, he worked
at the United Nations Secretariat in New York as an Assistant
Economics Affairs Officer. He subsequently worked as a resident
tutor at Lowell House at Harvard.
Academic career
In 1964, Swamy joined the faculty of economics at
Harvard and since then has taught in the
Department of Economics. He began as an assistant professor, and in
1969 became an associate professor. He regularly teaches economics
courses in summer session at Harvard.
From 1969 to 1991, he was a Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He was removed from the position by its board of Governors in the early 1970s but was legally reinstated in the late 1980s by the Supreme Court of India. He continued in the position until 1991 when he resigned to become a cabinet minister. He served on the Board of Governors of the IIT, Delhi (1977–80), and on the Council of IITs (1980–82).
He is the chairman of School of Communication & Management Studies
in Kerala, a business institute in India.
Political career
Role played during Indian Emergency
He first came into the spotlight for protesting against the
emergency imposed in 1975. He went underground for a period of 6
months to avoid being arrested by police. Under the instruction of
Jayaprakash Narayan, Swami escaped to US so that he could mobilise
overseas Indians and world media against the emergency.
Elections contested
He was one of the founding members of the Janata Party and has been
its president since 1990. He was elected Member of Parliament 5
times between 1974 and 1999. He has twice represented the city of
Mumbai North East during 1977 and 1980, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil
Nadu in the Parliament.
He was also a member of the Planning Commission between 1990 and 1991. Between 1994 and 1996, he held the position of "Chairman of the Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade" (equivalent to the rank of a cabinet minister) under the P. V. Narasimha Rao government. Dr. Swamy has been subject to several defamation cases. He is known to argue these cases himself without the agency of lawyers. In October 2004, he along with other members of the erstwhile Janata Party established the Rashtriya Swabhiman Manch to oppose the policies of the ruling UPA.
Minister of Commerce and Law of India
Economic Reforms in India
During the period 1990 to 1991 when Swamy was Cabinet Minister of
Commerce and Law of India he created the blueprint for economic
reforms in India under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar Singh which
was later carried out in 1991 by Manmohan Singh, then Finance
Minister under leadership of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao. The
current Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh recently stated that Dr.
Swamy was the first to envisage and articulate the need for reforms
in India.
International relations
China and India
He is known for his efforts in normalizing relations between China
and India. In 1981, he persuaded Deng Xiaoping to open the Kailash
Mansarovar in Tibet to the Hindu pilgrims from India. He became the
first Indian on the reopening to visit Kailash and Mansarovar in
1981. In 1990-1991, he was a minister in the Chandra Shekhar
cabinet and was in charge of the Ministry of Commerce and Ministry
of Law and Justice.
Israel
In his speeches and articles, Dr Swamy has expressed his admiration
for Israel, and has credited its retaliatory capacity for its
ability to survive in a hostile Arab environment. He made
pioneering efforts at establishing diplomatic relations with
Israel.
2G spectrum scam
In November 2008, Subramanian Swamy wrote the first of five letters
to PM Manmohan Singh seeking permission to prosecute A. Raja in
regards to the 2G spectrum scam. However, Singh took no action,
leading Swamy to file a case on his own in the Supreme Court of
India regarding the matter, which then asked the Central Bureau of
Investigation to produce a detailed report on the matter. He
further called on the Indian government to re-auction the 2G
spectrum without the involvement of Communications Minister Kapil
Sibal.
Swamy has raised allegations that that Sonia Gandhi's two sisters Anushka and Nadia have received sixty percent of the kickbacks in the 2G spectrum scam, amounting to Rs.18,000 crores each. On 15 April 2011, he filed a 206-page long petition with PM Singh seeking permission to prosecute Gandhi. In the petition, he claimed to have strong evidence of corrupt acts committed by Gandhi as early as 1972; he also raised doubts regarding her acquisition of Indian citizenship. At a lecture on corruption given on 29 May 2011, he again repeated his allegation against Sonia Gandhi, saying she has Rs.1 lakh crore stashed abroad. Most of Swamy's letters to the prime minister regarding this matter are not supported by proof, but he is not defensive about his allegations, stating: "I am writing to the prime minister, I am not holding a press conference. The PM has agencies available to him, they can investigate. My job is to bring things to his notice." Also, "They say I have no proof. Rubbish! As if on other things, they always have proof."
Reaction to 2011 Mumbai bombings
In response to the 2011 Mumbai bombings, he wrote an editorial in
Daily News and Analysis (DNA) claiming that "Muslims of India are
being programmed by a slow reactive process to become radical and
thus slide into suicide against Hindus". He then set out a
programme for dealing with this alleged threat, including repealing
Article 370 of the Constitution of India (which granted special
autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir), removing the Gyanvapi
Mosque at Kashi Vishwanath Temple and other mosques at Hindu
temples, disenfranchising non-Hindus who refuse to acknowledge
their Hindu ancestry, prohibiting conversion from Hinduism to other
religions, and annexing part of Bangladesh in retaliation for
Bangladeshi illegal immigration in India.
Negative reactions
His column provoked a variety of reactions. His house was
attacked by people alleged to be Congress party workers.
Minorities Council of Maharashtra Vice Chairman Abraham Mathai and
National Commission for Minorities chairman Wajahat Habibullah
accused him of violating Indian Penal Code Section 153A. New Delhi
law student Shehzad Poonawala attempted to lodge an FIR against him
at Defence Colony police station, but was disallowed by the officer
on duty. DNA published two hostile response columns by Rakesh
Sharma and Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr. calling him a "Hindu
Taliban", "maverick", and "Zionist" in response to his views.
Reaction at Harvard
Some students at his alma mater Harvard University, where he also
teaches economics in the summer school, accused him of stoking
communalism and circulated a petition calling on the university to
fire him and publicly repudiate his remarks. Adam Kissel, on behalf
of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, wrote in a
letter to Harvard that a disciplinary investigation against him
would be inappropriate for an academic institution dedicated to
intellectual freedom, represented a threat to free speech, and
could lead to self-censorship by other faculty members.
In response to the petition, Donald H. Pfister, dean of Harvard Summer School, stated that the school would "give this matter our serious attention", but the school decided to stand by its instructor.
Tamil Nadu
He is well known for his critical views against the Government of
Tamil Nadu and against the rationalist views of E.V.R. Ramaswamy.
He is a constant fighter for the revival of Hindutva in Tamil
Nadu.
He is staunch detractor of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam.
He obtained Supreme Court Stay against the implementation of Sethu
Samuthiram Shipping Channel project (SSSCP). He believes that this
shallow land connecting between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka was built
by Rama approximately 1,260,000 years ago. He strongly opposes the
implementation of SSSCP citing that implementing this scheme may
affect the sentiments of Hinduism. He wrote letters to Prime
Minister of India in June 2009 asking him to stop the project.
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