Subramanian Swamy (PHOTO: X)
Economist and former Minister of Law and Justice of India, Subramanian Swamy, has posted a tweet on X suggesting that a high-level meeting of its most seasoned politicians should take place, involving politicians with at least five terms in the Lok Sabha of parliament or the Rajya Sabha.
The party insiders reckon that the advice and strategic expertise of senior MPs will be of significance as the organisation gears itself towards handling an emerging global scandal which may have grave political consequences.
Such a scandal involving some Indian politicians who are accused of engaging in illegal sexual acts in the US might get wide publicity in the international news platforms, according to a tweet shared on X by Subramanian Swamy.
His tweet reveals that there are increasing anxieties that soon the reputed American newspapers will carry photographs of the affair, which will subject the Indian politicians to an in-depth scrutiny.
In his tweet, he said, “It is in the interest of the BJP to have a conference of prominent BJP party politicians (who have had more than 5 MP tenures in Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha), in order to prepare the party for dealing with the new international scandal involving some Indian Politicians participating in illegal sexual activity in USA.
Their photos may soon emerge in reputed US newspapers damaging Indian politicians and our nation.”
Here’s a look at Subramanian Swamy’s life, career, education and achievements:
Dr. Subramanian Swamy is an Indian politician, statistician, and economist who is a Member of Parliament in the upper house of the Indian Parliament, the Rajya Sabha. Swamy has been a Planning Commission of India and a Cabinet Minister in the government of Chandra Shekhar. Swamy was a pioneer of the BJP.
He was the president of the party since its birth in 1990 until 2013, when it was combined with the BJP. He was elected to the Lok Sabha five times of 1974 to 1999.
Subramanian Swamy is an Indian economic, academic and long time politician with strong stand points, advocate and activist of the law and long life.
He was born on the 15th of September, 1939, in Chennai, in a family that was oriented towards academics. Sitaraman Subramanian, his father was an elderly bureaucrat, and his mother, Padmavathy, was an educated woman.
This environment of upbringing influenced Swamy intellectually and has made him interested in mathematics, economics, and public policy at an early age.
Subramanian Swamy got his undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Hindu College, University of Delhi. He later took his master in statistics at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata and then moved to economics. He was given a scholarship to Harvard where he got his PhD in Economics and was tutored by Nobel laureate Simon Kuznets.
His scientific work focused on international trade, economic development, and the economic strategy of China- spheres that thereafter influenced his policy suggestions in India.
Subramanian Swamy had a successful academic career prior to joining politics as a full-time politician. He taught a number of years at Harvard University as an Assistant and then as an Associate Professor in Economics.
He was employed in the Delhi School of Economics in India and then the Chairman of the Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade. Influential to the initial liberalisation thoughts of a country, it is generally thought that Swamy did this through his academic writings, particularly on the reforms in the Indian economy.
The political career of Swamy has also been very vibrant. He has also represented the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha in his several terms as a Member of Parliament.
He served as a Union Minister of Commerce and Law, and has served different political parties over the decades, before joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Swamy is also an outspoken man and has been engaged in some of the greatest political controversies, litigations on matters of interest and cases of corruption.
The combination of scholarly understanding, understanding of economics, and aggressive political activism makes him still a controversial and well-known leader in Indian life.
2016: He joined the Bhartiya Janata Party as a full member after serving as the President of the Janata Party up till 2013.
In the case of 2G, Swamy was one of the pioneering members of the Janata Party and held the office of the president of the party till 2013.
2012: Swamy was granted in petition against the PMP by the Supreme Court of India. Raja was arrested by CBI in the case and was bailed out on 15 May 2012.
2008: He was elected to the Lok Sabha, Madurai. He defeated Rambabu. A.G.S. of TMC(M).
Swamy was also elected a Member of the Committee on Subordinate Legislation Member of, Committee on Defence and its Sub-Committee-I Member and the Library Committee Member of the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Civil Aviation in 1994 and 1990 respectively.
In 1990, he was re-elected again as the Member of Rajya Sabha in Uttar Pradesh, Janata Party, President and the Chairman of the Central Parliamentary Board.
His stint in this position started in 1980 when he was re-elected to Lok Sabha on a Janata Party ticket and again in 1977. He conquered Kulkarni Rajaram Alias Raja Gopal of the Congress Party.
1974: Member of Rajya Sabha, Uttar Pradesh, elected on a Jan Sangh ticket. He was in this position during two years.
1960s Subramanian Swamy entered his political career by joining Sarvodaya Movement in the late 1960s. Subramania Swamy was one of the founding fathers of Janata Dal in the Emergency in the country.
Subramanian Swamy helped in unearthing the massive 2G Scam. He was given a challenge to learn the Chinese language within a year and Dr. Swami took up the challenge, and he met his challenge by mastering it in three months.
He was expelled by Harvard University as Swamy offered to disenfranchise Muslims who will not recognize being of Hindu ancestry, the two summer economics courses of Swami were removed by Harvard University off the school curriculum.
His wife, a lawyer known as Roxanna took a significant role in the legal training of him. Swamy is the Chairman of the School of Communication and Management Studies in Kochi. In 1963 and 1986, he served as a United Nations Economist and a Consultant to the World Bank respectively.
Subramanian Swamy Achievements Subramanian Swamy had reached 24 years of age when he graduated with his Ph.D. in Harvard University. He is among the founding members of the post emergency winning political party.
He was appointed as the Cabinet Minister despite being the head of the opposition. He was instrumental in enabling the Hindus in India to reach the Kailash Mansarovar.
He has analysed China so well that even Manmohan Singh or Indira Gandhi used to consult Dr. Swamy. Swamy petitioned the Supreme Court to have the project terminated because the original path was to pass through Ram Sethu and it succeeded in this.
His article is entitled Notes on Fractile Graphical Analysis and it appeared in Econometrica in 1963. He was recommended to Harvard and Graduated with his Ph.D. at Harvard at the age of 24 and later, he together with Paul Samuelson, published a paper on the theory of index numbers in 1974.
Swamy served as Chairman of the Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade by the previous Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao in 1994.
He is the chairman of the Board of Governors of the SCMS Group of Educational Institutions in Kerala too. He has authored foreign affairs of India that to a large extent dealt with the People Republic of China (PRC), Pakistan and Israel.
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