Dynasty, not democracy

Nehru-Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi can never escape the looming shadow of the Italian connection, which, like Banquo’s ghost, surfaces in the most embarrassing ways. The identity of the recipients of the kickbacks in the Bofors gun deal and Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi’s dubious role in the episode may have been swept under the carpet, but during election campaigns the Italian linkage becomes a sore point.

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