If you want to kill a Nationalist without arousing suspicion, just ensure he gets Sidelined... That’s how Sardar Patel, Dr Ambedkar & Feroze Gandhi died.
Don’t Ask Me Who’s Behind It.

“He was a nobody. He died in 1960. He was just a son-in-law of the then PM,” everyone told me.
But I knew there was something more to that. Then I found the Mundhra case, the Dalmia case, the Press Law, Kerala government case. That’s when I realized that Feroze was an important person in Indian history. He considered himself a Parsi, but he was not religious. He could
recite the Bhagwad Gita, both in Hindi and Sanskrit.
Words of Swedish Author Bertil Falk Who Took 20 + Years to write “Feroze - The Forgotten Gandhi”.

THE MUNDHRA CASE
Feroze Gandhi started his speech in the Lok Sabha on the Mundhra matter on December 16, 1957, with the words:
“Parliament must exercise vigilance and control over the biggest and most powerful financial institution it has created, the Life Insurance Corporation of India, whose misapplication of public funds we shall scrutinise today”
“Mr Speaker, there is going to be some sharpshooting
and hard hitting in the House today, because when I hit, I hit hard and expect to be hit harder. I am fully conscious that the other side is also equipped with plentiful supplies of TNT.”
And it led to the demission from office of two senior officials — Union finance secretary
HM Patel and LS Vaidyanathan of #LIC & more importantly, the union finance minister T T Krishnamachari himself.
This did not go down well with Nehru & Indira Gandhi, who through the Life Insurance of India Act, 1956, took control of 245 Private & Proprietary firms, Nationalised
and consolidated it under LIC. (Even Feroze Supported this move)
A light-bulb salesman, Haridas Mundhra was indicted by @BombayStockExchange for selling forged shares in 1956.
In 1957, Mundhra got LIC to invest R1.24 crore in the shares of six of his weak companies and LIC lost
most of the money, They were not regarded as small by one man, to start with. The gutsy MP from Rae Bareli, Feroze Gandhi had drawn Parliament’s attention and that of the country for public money being invested in Mundhra’s dubious firms.

When Nehru became the PM, Indira took
the children from Lucknow and moved to Teen Murti—Feroze didn’t like it. He didn’t move in with her. Even after she moved to Teen Murti, Feroze used to make sure that he had breakfast with his family. He stayed at the house he had as an MP. AND THEN THIS HAPPENED
Feroze Accused Indira In Front Of Nehru & Called Her FASCIST !

Background in 5 tweets

Kerala Gave The World, The First Democratically Elected Communist Govt & Nehru, Already Somewhat Obsessed With The Apprehension That Too Independent And Powerful State Governments Were A
Danger To The Centre And The Unity Of The Nation, Became Worried.

According to Gopal Krishna Gandhi, Nehru was worried about Communist’s rise and the meantime, proud that India was such a good democracy that it permitted Communists to come to power – by legal means whereas
Indira was the @INCIndia President and she had no democratic second thoughts when it came to crushing the elected government in Kerala or the elected government of any Indian state for that matter.
Indira waited for an opportunity & Kerala’s CM Namboodaripad made his mistake,
EMS Brought Education Bill (Personally, on paper it’s a good bill) but you know, Commis are Commis, when in some schools, the portrait of Gandhi was replaced with portraits of Marx and Stalin, Indira rolled her dice by bringing Nair Society, Muslim League & Church together to
fight against Commis. She made sure that the situation turned violent, and it did. The police opened fire against demonstrators and many died.
IT WAS NOT THE FIRST & LAST TIME INDIRA SAW BLOOD WRITES LIBERAL'S DARLING GOPAL KRISHNA GANDHI.

According to Janardan Thakur
well-known political correspondent: ‘It was her husband who perhaps first called her a “fascist”, way back in 1959 when she was Congress President, Indira Gandhi had been lobbying hard for intervention in Kerala and Feroze had taken a stand against it. He thought it was
undemocratic to dismiss an elected government, whether it was a communist government or otherwise. The issue had come up at breakfast table at Teen Murti, and there had been quite a row between Indira and Feroze, with Nehru looking on very distressed. “It is just not right,”
Feroze had said, “you are bullying people. You are a fascist.” Indira Gandhi had flared up. “You are calling me a fascist. I can’t take that.” And she had walked out of the room in rage.’
But Indira won, she brought down @cpimspeak government & made alliance with @iumlofficial
and kerala got its Congress-Muslim League Govt.
Feroze spoke out – not as a member of the Lok Sabha, but at a Congress meeting: ‘We intend to have electoral alliances in Kerala. I really do not know what it all means. We are going to have and we will have alliances with the
Muslim League, with the leaders of caste, casteism. Where are we? Where is the Congress? Where are the principles of the Congress?
Nehru later told friends that he found Feroze’s remarks “Unforgivable”.
Feroze was a democrat, she wasn’t. Indira wanted to be ALL POWERFUL in that
sense and he fought her. He fought her in the Parliament and also within the Congress party.
Feroze Gandhi was born in a Parsi family in Bombay on 12 September 1912. He was youngest of his five siblings. After his father’s death in early 1920s, his mother along with the kids
shifted to Prayagraj. It is where Feroze spent a good part of his life. In 1930, he came in contact with Kamala Nehru, and was regular to the Nehru family’s ancestral house, Anand Bhawan. When Nehru’s wife Kamala fell ill, Feroze took care of her and even went to Lausanne in
Swtizerland, where she was recuperating from her tuberculosis. Kamala Nehru died in February 1936.
Having started as a journalist, Feroze Gandhi understood the importance of freedom of press. After independence, journalists were not allowed to report on the parliamentary
proceedings and it could attract a suit against publication of any such proceedings.
In 1956, Feroze Gandhi introduced a private member’s bill advocating press freedom that later became a law as Parliamentary Proceedings (Protection of Publication) Act 1956.

During his speech
in Parliament on the bill brought by him, Feroze Gandhi said, “For the success of our parliamentary form of government and democracy and so that the will of the people shall prevail, it is necessary that our people should know what transpires in this House. This is not your
House or my House, it is the House of the people. It is on their behalf that we speak or function in this chamber. These people have a right to know what their chosen representatives say and do. Anything that stands in the way must be removed.”
This was one of the rare occasions
in Parliament when a private member’s bill was passed by all and became a law, which made it possible for the media to report Parliament proceedings.
Feroze was such a great man that the PRESS everyday must worship him & the Communists should hail him for standing on their
behalf, alas both compromised with their Ethics & Ethos with the same Villains who troubled them.
He was just 48 when he passed away on 8 September 1960. But the inscription on Feroze Jehangir Gandhi’s gravestone at the Parsi cemetery in Allahabad best describes how full and
glorious a life he led: “He is not dead who lifts Thy glorious mind on high. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

The marriage of Feroze Gandhi and Indira Nehru on August 2, 1942. Ironically, the surviving maternal side is ashamed to take his name & paternal side
vanished into thin air.

Request @PMOIndia @PIB_India to bring a documentary on the extraordinary parliamentarian #FerozeGandhi

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