Bofors Reloaded: Rajiv Gandhi’s $1.4 Billion Kickback Tale – The Ghost That Haunts Indian Democracy
🇮🇳 💣The Background: When Guns Spoke More Than Bullets 🕰️ In the mid-1980s, India was beefing up its artillery capabilities. The Congress government, under then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, signed a deal worth ₹1,437 crores ($1.4 billion) with Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors to supply 155 mm howitzers. On paper, it...