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Friday, August 7, 1998

Gill's supporters were in his bad books

Kaveree Bamzai  
NEW DELHI, August 6: Even as a delegation of Opposition members of the Rajya Sabha, led by Manmohan Singh, met President K R Narayanan and submitted a letter warning against any move by the Government to bring in an ordinance on the Prasar Bharati Bill, the man whom this would benefit most, CEO Surrindar Singh Gill, may find his words coming back to haunt him.

While the BJP has shown to Congressmen some portions of Gill's books, The Dynasty: A Political Biography of the Premier Ruling Family of Modern India (1996) and The Pathology of Corruption (1998), which criticise the Nehru-Gandhi clan, what is less well-known is his less-than-complimentary comments about others who have indirectly helped his cause.

Rashtriya Janata Dal bossman Laloo Prasad Yadav might not like this description of himself. In his section on the fodder scam in The Pathology of Corruption, Gill talks about how ``it will take a long time before the social class starts accepting Dalit and backward class rulers as a normal phenomenon''.OfMulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party, which also supported the BJP-led Government on the Prasar Bharati Bill,Gill says when Mulayam became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, ``he let loose his goons on Mayawati and her followers''.

Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.

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