04-23-2005, 01:13 AM
<b>Fernandes alleges personal vendetta; attacks Sonia</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Under attack over arms procurements during the Kargil conflict and the Denel deal, former Defence Minister George Fernandes on Friday charged the Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty with "personal vendetta" for his "anti-Congressism".<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The NDA Convener alleged that it was a "conspiracy to demoralise the armed forces" whether it was Kargil purchases, the Tehelka expose or the coffin issue.
Maintaining it was not for the first time in his 56 years of public life that he has been a victim of <b>"Congress' vendetta", </b>he told a BJP Intellectual Cell meeting, <b>"I haven't studied why the Congress does it but I am a hardcore opponent of that party... I have suffered the worst. If they think they can browbeat me by harassing me, they are mistaken".</b>
<b>"People who have no love for this country are behind the conspiracy to demoralise the forces. I will not allow this country to be looted. I have only one country. Others may have other countries", </b>he said in an apparent reference to the Congress president's foreign origin.
Fernandes said though he was a fan of late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his initial years, <b>he will remain "angry till death" for Nehru's stand that there was no option to partition</b>.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Under attack over arms procurements during the Kargil conflict and the Denel deal, former Defence Minister George Fernandes on Friday charged the Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty with "personal vendetta" for his "anti-Congressism".<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The NDA Convener alleged that it was a "conspiracy to demoralise the armed forces" whether it was Kargil purchases, the Tehelka expose or the coffin issue.
Maintaining it was not for the first time in his 56 years of public life that he has been a victim of <b>"Congress' vendetta", </b>he told a BJP Intellectual Cell meeting, <b>"I haven't studied why the Congress does it but I am a hardcore opponent of that party... I have suffered the worst. If they think they can browbeat me by harassing me, they are mistaken".</b>
<b>"People who have no love for this country are behind the conspiracy to demoralise the forces. I will not allow this country to be looted. I have only one country. Others may have other countries", </b>he said in an apparent reference to the Congress president's foreign origin.
Fernandes said though he was a fan of late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his initial years, <b>he will remain "angry till death" for Nehru's stand that there was no option to partition</b>.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->