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His stance against the LTTE has had five successive Indian governments place him in the [[Security categories in India|Z category]] of Indian security, with security cover of at least 22 personnel because of the high LTTE threat to his life.<ref>[http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/lsdeb/ls12/ses2/0405089808.htm Transcripts] - Parliament of India</ref> Subramanian Swamy was attacked by a group of pro-LTTE lawyers .<ref> [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chennai/Lawyer_arrested_for_pelting_eggs_at_Swamy/articleshow/4152259.cms]</ref> Violent clashes between the Tamil Nadu police and practicing lawyers occurred on the 19th of February 2009 on the [[Madras High Court]] premises. |
His stance against the LTTE has had five successive Indian governments place him in the [[Security categories in India|Z category]] of Indian security, with security cover of at least 22 personnel because of the high LTTE threat to his life.<ref>[http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/lsdeb/ls12/ses2/0405089808.htm Transcripts] - Parliament of India</ref> Subramanian Swamy was attacked by a group of pro-LTTE lawyers .<ref> [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chennai/Lawyer_arrested_for_pelting_eggs_at_Swamy/articleshow/4152259.cms]</ref> Violent clashes between the Tamil Nadu police and practicing lawyers occurred on the 19th of February 2009 on the [[Madras High Court]] premises. |
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==Controversey== |
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Defamation. |
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Subramanian Swamy has a record of making defamatory remarks against prominent leaders like Jayalalithaa , Sonia Gandhi , P.chidambram etc , he has been accused of writting articles with false information and has lost lakhs of money due to defamation suits <ref>http://www.thehindu.com/fline/fl1819/18190100.htm</ref> |
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Hindutva |
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Subramanian Swamy believes in Hindutva and hindu nationalism and has opposed parties considered to be in the Secular group , he has given make firery speeches against Christians and Muslims and his party allied with the BJP although his party not won a single Lok Sabha seat since 1998 recently.<ref>http://communalism.blogspot.com/2010/04/bal-thackeray-and-subramanian-swamy-two.html</ref><ref>http://greathindu.com/2008/02/from-savarkar-to-modi-the-unofficial-history-of-modern-hindu-nationalists/</ref><ref>http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/article.php?article_id=4323</ref> |
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Murder Case |
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Subramanian Swamy is a strong supporter of Sankaracharya of the Kanchi Mutt , the prime accused in the infamous Sankararaman murder case.<ref>http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/21kanchi.htm</ref> |
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Rajiv Gandhi Assassination |
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In January 1991, Swamy played the key role in dismissing Karunanidhi's government on the grounds of the ltte infiltration in Tamil Nadu. During [[Karunanidhi]]'s rule, [[Rajiv Gandhi]] made 13 visits to Tamil Nadu between 1989 and 1991 and came to no harm. When the state came under President's rule in January 1991, Swamy had become the de-facto chief minister. Every day he used to declare that he had wiped out the ltte's presence in the state. It was in the fifth month of Swamy's rule that Rajiv Gandhi was killed in Tamil Nadu .The [[Outlook Magazine ]] criticized Mr Swamy on his book on Rajiv's Assassination , the magazine said -' it's the turn of a poorly structured mystery novel to masquerade as an investigative book that purports to unearth the hidden truths behind the murder of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. His title focuses purely on his agenda: to deflect and refract the questions posed to him after May 21, 1991, the day the human bomb felled Rajiv Gandhi'. 'This renders Swamy's every sentence suspect, and ensures that his book fails even as a murder mystery, providing no solutions'. |
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<ref>http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?209511</ref> |
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==Books== |
==Books== |
Revision as of 16:26, 25 April 2010
Subramanian Swamy | |
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Member of Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha), Union Cabinet Minister for Commerce & Law | |
In office 1973–1991 | |
Prime Minister | Chandrasekhar |
Preceded by | A. G. S. Ram Babu |
Succeeded by | P. Mohan |
Personal details | |
Born | September 15, 1939 |
Nationality | Indian |
Political party | Janata Party |
Spouse | Roxna |
Profession | economist, Politician |
Dr. Subramanian Swamy (b. 15 September 1939 at Chennai, sometimes spelt as Subramaniam Swamy) is a politician from India. He is also a trained economist.
Personal life
Subramanian Swamy has two daughters, Gitanjali Swamy and Suhasini Haider. Suhasini is a journalist with Indian television channel CNN-IBN. His wife Dr. Roxna Swamy is an Advocate in the Supreme Court of India.
Association with Harvard
Following his time at the Indian Statistical Institute, he was awarded a doctorate by Harvard University in 1964. Two of his advisors at the time were Simon Kuznets and Paul A. Samuelson[1]. For a time, while completing his dissertation in 1963, he worked in the UN Secretariat at New York as Assistant Economics Affairs Officer. He subsequently worked as a resident tutor at Lowell House, and as an assistant professor for the Harvard Economics department where he later became an Associate professor in 1969. Subsequently he has been a regularly teaching at the rank of full Professor at the Harvard Summer School. He is accounted by some to be an authority on the comparative study of India and China[2] and is also well-versed in the Mandarin Chinese (Hanyu) language[3].
Association with IITs
He was Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi from 1969. 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 till 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).
Political career
He is regarded as a proponent of Hindutva as a political concept. He first came into spotlight for protesting against the emergency imposed in 1975. He was one of the founding members of the Janata Party and is 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 is known for his efforts in normalizing relations with China and Israel. In 1981, he persuaded Deng Xiaoping to open the Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet to Hindu pilgrims from India[4]. In 1990-1991, he was a minister in the Chandra Shekhar cabinet and was in charge of the ministries of Commerce and Law and Justice.
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.
He has played an important role in fighting for the cause of preventing the destruction of Rama Sethu bridge. He moved the Supreme Court of India and successfully obtained a stay for the Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project at the final hours on August 31, 2007. The case is under hearing before the Supreme Court.
Most recently Dr. Swamy has been crusading for proper electoral governance in the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in the Indian Elections. Dr. Swamy has been one of the few petitioners, who petitioned the Indian Courts to look in to serious electoral mis-management potential in the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) during the Indian Elections from 2001 through 2009. Following a preliminary hearing in the Delhi High Court in late 2009, the Chief Justice of the High Court admitted the matter for a full hearing in early 2010. Dr. Swamy argued that any electoral mechanism such as an EVM must provide full audit-ability, account-ability and transparency and that Indian Election Commission's current EVM has neither of the three.The matter is currently under consideration in the Indian Courts.
Stance against the LTTE
He is noted for his consistent stance against the LTTE which is proscribed as a terrorist organization by 31 countries (see list) commenting:
LTTE is a terrorist organization which moreover killed Rajiv Gandhi and has spewed poison online about India[5]
LTTE is a part of the Sri Lankan problem, and can never be a part of the solution[6]
His stance against the LTTE has had five successive Indian governments place him in the Z category of Indian security, with security cover of at least 22 personnel because of the high LTTE threat to his life.[7] Subramanian Swamy was attacked by a group of pro-LTTE lawyers .[8] Violent clashes between the Tamil Nadu police and practicing lawyers occurred on the 19th of February 2009 on the Madras High Court premises.
Controversey
Defamation.
Subramanian Swamy has a record of making defamatory remarks against prominent leaders like Jayalalithaa , Sonia Gandhi , P.chidambram etc , he has been accused of writting articles with false information and has lost lakhs of money due to defamation suits [9]
Hindutva
Subramanian Swamy believes in Hindutva and hindu nationalism and has opposed parties considered to be in the Secular group , he has given make firery speeches against Christians and Muslims and his party allied with the BJP although his party not won a single Lok Sabha seat since 1998 recently.[10][11][12]
Murder Case
Subramanian Swamy is a strong supporter of Sankaracharya of the Kanchi Mutt , the prime accused in the infamous Sankararaman murder case.[13]
Rajiv Gandhi Assassination
In January 1991, Swamy played the key role in dismissing Karunanidhi's government on the grounds of the ltte infiltration in Tamil Nadu. During Karunanidhi's rule, Rajiv Gandhi made 13 visits to Tamil Nadu between 1989 and 1991 and came to no harm. When the state came under President's rule in January 1991, Swamy had become the de-facto chief minister. Every day he used to declare that he had wiped out the ltte's presence in the state. It was in the fifth month of Swamy's rule that Rajiv Gandhi was killed in Tamil Nadu .The Outlook Magazine criticized Mr Swamy on his book on Rajiv's Assassination , the magazine said -' it's the turn of a poorly structured mystery novel to masquerade as an investigative book that purports to unearth the hidden truths behind the murder of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. His title focuses purely on his agenda: to deflect and refract the questions posed to him after May 21, 1991, the day the human bomb felled Rajiv Gandhi'. 'This renders Swamy's every sentence suspect, and ensures that his book fails even as a murder mystery, providing no solutions'. [14]
Books
Dr. Subramanian Swamy is the author of numerous books and writes regularly in various journals and newspapers, some of his books are :-
- Economic Growth in China and India, 1989
- Hindus Under Siege. (2006)
Notes
- ^ Boumans 167
- ^ Prospects for India-U.S. relations better: Swamy The Hindu - January 23, 2008
- ^ About Dr. Subramanian Swamy
- ^ Pilgrims' route The Tribune - September 26, 1998
- ^ Subramanian Swamy on LTTE, Defence Agreement and the right to station Indian Troops in non-Tamil areas in Sri Lanka Asian Tribune - June 28, 2004
- ^ India will Never Support Eelam; Dr Subramanian Swamy Says Nidahasa News - October 8, 2007
- ^ Transcripts - Parliament of India
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://www.thehindu.com/fline/fl1819/18190100.htm
- ^ http://communalism.blogspot.com/2010/04/bal-thackeray-and-subramanian-swamy-two.html
- ^ http://greathindu.com/2008/02/from-savarkar-to-modi-the-unofficial-history-of-modern-hindu-nationalists/
- ^ http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/article.php?article_id=4323
- ^ http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/21kanchi.htm
- ^ http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?209511
References
External links
- Biography on Janta Party site
- Subramaniam Swamy's views on the influence of Hinduism
- Subramaniam Swamy in Janata Party's website
- An article by Dr. Subramanian Swamy on how to face defamation litigation
- Subramaniam Swamy fined Rs. 5 lakhs by the Delhi High Court for making libellous allegations against Jayalalitha Jayaram
- Basic Islam for Hindu Dhimmis - Subramanian Swamy